Vocabulary task

frolicking	huddle	pelt	rim
peg	treacherous	studious	ubiquitous

1.  The raindrops had turned into little round chunks of ice, just like white pebbles, and they were ______ down; and had torn the rabbit's umbrella all to pieces.
2. Her figure was elegant, and she walked well; but Darcy was still inflexibly _____.
3. As two thirds of the products consumed in Russia are imported, prices are _____ to western levels and can only get higher.
4. The icy glaze that encrusted the metal rungs was ______.
5. He looked like a _____ polar bear in his frost-whitened suit.
6. For almost 500 years, the Mercator projection has been the worm for maps of the world, ______ in atlases and on school walls.
7. He glanced down at the ______ on the ground that was Jim.
8. Toby stared out of the window of his room on the ______ of the space station, wondering what he should do.