English Vocabulary Exercises - Nouns? Verbs? Both! With derivations! - Exercise 7-2

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. Make sure you _______________ loudly when you come to the door; I might be in another room, and it is sometimes difficult to hear.
2. I accidentally _______________ coffee all over my wife's new blouse.
3. I had to _______________ the bolt in with my fingernail because I didn't have any tools.
4. I'm just going to put on my bathing suit. Turn around, and don't _______________.
5. If you _______________ too suddenly on your bicycle, you could flip over.
6. Just _______________ those boxes over there by the door.
7. I don't want to _______________ you with my problems. I'll work things out myself.
8. People were _______________ each other, trying to get in line to get tickets to the big rock show.
9. Water was _______________ through the roof of our house, so we had to get it repaired.
10. I think I'll need a larger size; these pants don't _______________ me very well at all.
11. Yuck, I don't think a checked shirt really _______________ well with polka dot pants.
12. I _______________ a hole in the wall to put the picture hook into.
13. My neighbour's dog _______________ our cat up a tree, and now she won't come down.
14. My wife _______________ from coffee to herb tea because it doesn't keep her awake at night.
15. After he got arrested for drunk driving, he _______________ to stop drinking, but two weeks later he was at the bar again.