Unit 8. Vocab

a) He prayed that his ____ wife would one day have a child.

b) The ground there is ___, littered with rocks and fine soil.

(a)  

Look at the way that guy drives. He must have some sort of a (a)   .

a) The path was covered with ____ undergrowth.

b)____ woodland creates a rich variation of trees in a small space, there is also more cover and seclusion from the thick canopy.

c) I had trouble getting through the ____ crowd.

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a) We undertook the task of ___ing our way through the jungle.

b) He started to ____ away at the tree bark.

c) Surgeons saved a man's arm after it was ____ed off at the elbow.

(a)  

a) I've always been good at math—I guess I just have a ___ for numbers.

b) I never had a ____for flying before, but I'm getting used to it now that I have to travel so much for work.

c) I won’t go up the church tower with you. I’ve no ___ for heights.

(a)  

a) A ____ scar runs through his lower lip.

b) Huge shards of glass covered roads – some _____pieces had ripped through cars.

c) The view was really spectacular: the ____ cliffs, so sharp and uneven, but still made softer by endless vegetation.

(a)  

a) She takes me outside to her ___ garden to show off her roses in premature full bloom.

b) We were trudging through the dense jungle, covered with ____ vegetation, which made us nearly hate it as we needed to hack our away through.

(a)  

a) I don't want to get into the ____waters of family arguments.

b) The sea was brown and ___ after the storm.

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a) He’s nuts about his new granddaughter.

b) You’re (a)   if you think you can go mountain climbing in a snowstorm.

a) We could see a low ___ of hills in the distance.

b) A rugged mountain___ splits the island into north and south.

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