Vocabulary Quest 'The Other Side of the Wall'

Once upon a time, a girl loved gardening. She had many beautiful flowering p (a)   t_ in her garden. One day, she went to the market and met a lady selling seeds.

Answer explanation

A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses

The seller: These are _e (a)   s of a beautiful flowering creeper plant. If you want to plant it near a wall, it will take a support of the wall and grow. Take these, and your garden will become even more beautiful.

Answer explanation

the unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant

The girl bought the seeds and merrily came home. She planted them by the back wall of her garden. It was a wall that she shared with her neighbor. Her neighbor couldn't walk, but they would often talk to each other from behind this (a)   .

Answer explanation

a continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land

The girl: I have planted seeds of a lovely new plant.

The neighbor: Oh, that's nice. I wish I could someday come and see a beautiful garden. But alas, I cannot move; my own garden has become a dry patch of l (a)   d as I cannot take care of it.

Answer explanation

the part of the earth's surface that is not covered by water

Many months passed, and the girl tended to her new cr_ep_r plant every day. And with each day, the plant became bigger and bigger. But it didn't flower; not a single flower grew on it.

(a)  

Answer explanation

any plant that grows along the ground, around another plant, or up a wall by means of extending stems or branches

Frustrated by the only plant that did not give her flowers, she decided to cut it down. She brought her axe and was about to c (a)   the creeper down. Just then, her neighbor called out.

Answer explanation

cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife

The neighbor: Is that you? I have been meaning to talk to you for many weeks. Thank you so much for the lo (a)   flowers.

The girl: Flowers?

The neighbor: Yes, they are beautiful. I feel so happy every time I see them.

Answer explanation

very beautiful or attractive

The girl rushed to the neighbor's house. She s_w that the creeper from her garden had pushed through the cracks and holes in her wall and was growing on her neighbor's side of the wall. And it was full of the most beautiful flowers she had ever seen in her life.

(a)  

Answer explanation

perceive with the eyes; discern visually