Vocabulary task

Good afternoon, my dear English learners! Let's check your vocabulary knowledge!)))

• locket
• cumulative
• kipper
• daddy long-legs
• earwig
• slug
• pastimes
• wallow
• sniffle
• suave

1. Paul takes the _____ and throws it into the water.
2. His wife, Marie Curie, and their daughter, Irene Joliot- Curie, who spent their lives working with radioactive materials, both died of leukemia, very possibly as the result of _____ exposure to radiation.
3. You may be familiar with the idea that words such as science, transport ans solution are derived from Latin, but did you know that street and  _____ come from Latin words which entered ordinary speech during the period from the first to the early fifth centuries AD, when Celtic Britain was part of the Roman empire?
4. A new research has determined that warm summers are dramatically reducing populations of _____, which in turn is having a severe impact on the bird populations which rely on them for food.
5.  The humble _____ could help school pupils learn important lessons about mating and nurturing, a leading biologist has claimed.
6. The sea _____, Elysia chlorotica, looks like a leaf.
7. What are the various ______ of people in your country?
8. It is natural to bemoan the end of relationship and to _____ in self -  pitying thoughts such as the conviction that this means  I'll always be alone, but it's sure to thicken the sense of despair.
9. It looks like Rustam has the ______ now.
10. Jonathan, as _____ as ever, swept into her flat, which was exquisitely decored.
11. Elvira _____ at her hypocracy.
12. Jonathan put a finger to his lips, _____ her into the living room and pointed to an armchair.