English Vocabulary Exercises - Lots of Nouns (and derivations) - Exercise 4-1

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. He has sold his 10% _______________ in the company.
2. The team's medical _______________ was full of bandages.
3. Janice had to walk with a _______________ for a while after she hurt her knee.
4. The children broke a bunch of _______________ off the tree while they were picking cherries.
5. In the _______________ of the war, they left the country for a new life in America.
6. We all wrote our names on _______________ of paper, and then chose the name of the person who would become the class representative at random.
7. You must pay the total _______________ of your tuition before classes start.
8. You should eat a good meal before going hiking or you'll run out of _______________ pretty quickly.
9. Police found a small quantity of white _______________ in the man's pocket, which they believed to be cocaine.
10. Hi, this is Jason. I got your _______________, and I'll meet you in front of the bookstore around 4:00.
11. Their prices are very good, but unfortunately the _______________ of their goods is very low.
12. The Chinese language is difficult to learn for me because it has a number of different _______________ which change the meaning of a word.
13. He has a _______________ as an excellent doctor; that is why we chose him.
14. The children collected fish, seastars and clams, and put them in a _______________ at school.
15. He bought some new scuba-diving _______________ for his trip to Belize.