Vocabulary Task

alum	dispatch	castor	hefty	froth	gauze	grope	negligible	hideous
maypole	morris dance	meagre	panting	scamper	oblong	snag	dale

1.     The ribbons become shorter and a pattern appears on the _____.

2.     _____ decorate their costumes with bells and ribbons.

3.     Gold crystals can be produced by adding turmeric to the _____ solution, and purple crystals by a few drops of extract of log wood.

4.     And now the sun went quite down; the gloomy night came; the owl flew into a bush; and a moment after the old fairy came forth pale and ______, with staring eyes, and a nose and chin that almost met one another.

5.     In the morning when he awoke, he began to search over hill and _____ for this pretty flower and eight long days he sought it in vain: but on the ninth day, early in the morning, he found the beautiful purple flower; and in the middle of it was a large dew drop, as big as a costly pearl.

6.     After he had travelled a little way, he spied a dog lying by the roadside and ______ as if he were tired.

7.     The ass brayed, the dog barked, the cat mewed, and the cock screamed; and there they all broke through the window at once, and came tumbling into the room, amongst the broken glass, with a most hideous clatter!

8.     The robbers, who had been not a little frightened by the opening concert, had now no doubt that some frightful hobgoblin had broken in upon them and _____ away as fast as they could.

9.     The coast once clear our travelers soon sat down and _____ what the robbers had left, with as much eagerness as if they had not expected to again for a month.

10.Finding everything still he marched into the kitchen, and _____ about till he found a match in order to light a candle; and then, espying the glittering fiery eyes of the cat, he mistook them for live coals, and held the match to them to light it.

11.In Gujarat farmers have the choice of planting either peanuts, which are more profitable in wet years, or ______, which does better in drier conditions.

12.Cooked meat should be placed in the show window under transparent ______.

13.Beat the whites to a stiff, _____ and beat the sugar into the eggs.

14.Cut into small ______ pieces the shape of a domino.

15.Commission should be ______.

16.Though basically straight forward, there are a few ______ to changing money.

17.Damaged notes can be exchanged for a _____ commission.