Vocabulary Tips

cowled	elusive	holorime	intact
militant	obscurity	forge	paddy
rever	tow-line	trowel	wobble

1.     To all these people I send thanks – except, of course, the _____ plagiarist, to whom I address one heartfelt raspberry.

2.     A man might be a very fine artist, engineer, or philosopher, but unless he managed to bring his work to the attention of the ruler of the cities, he was likely to remain in _____.

3.     Sometimes it was by armed horsemen escorting a rich banker to some appointment; other times it was a file of _____ monks observing some saint’s day and carrying huge wax candles.

4.     Mrs Mott is using a _____ to dig small holes in the dirt.

5.     Among the many people to whom I am indebted for help in the preparation of this book, I must single out Miles Kington of the Independent for kindly allowing me to reproduce two _____ in the chapter on wordplay.

6.     It was probably a tabloid newspaper and they wanted to make a joke about how the bridge _____.

7.     The ceiling was _____ and so was I.

8.     I don’t wish to be insulting, but I firmly believe that if you took an average ______, and stretched it out straight across the middle of afield, and then turned your back on it for thirty seconds, that when you looked around again, you would find that it had got itself altogether in the middle of the field and had twisted itself up, and tied itself into knots, and lost its two ends and become all loops; and it would take you a good half - hour sitting down there on the grass and swearing all the while, disentangle it again.

9.     She feels a genuine affection for those little full stops and commas, colons and semi-colons and she protects them rather than _____ them.

10.I laughed, I howled, and I immediately wanted to join the _____ wing of the Apostrophe Society.

11.It was evening, and Bhaktaprasad was gazing down upon Kathmandu Valley as the Sun’s slanting rays lit its fields of greening ______.

12.Thus at the flaming ______ of life our fortunes must be wrought.