English Vocabulary Exercises - Verbs, Verbs & more Verbs - Exercise 18-2

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. I have _______________ a flight for you leaving tomorrow at noon.
2. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows because it was the fashion at the time to _______________ them off.
3. He _______________ looking at his girlfriend's diary when he read that she was planning to break up with him.
4. Police believe that DNA testing will _______________ if the suspect is guilty or not.
5. When Scott hurt his back weeding the garden, he really _______________ how much it hurt so that he wouldn't have to cut the grass.
6. Children _______________ flowers before the wedding couple as they exited the church.
7. I often wonder how my mother was able to _______________ with four children, when my father was often away at sea for months at a time.
8. Their entire family was _______________ by the death of their beloved family pet.
9. Our bodies are _______________ mostly of water.
10. English _______________ a lot of words from other languages.
11. According to scientists, gold _______________ on Mars, Mercury and Venus.
12. The car hit a telephone pole, and _______________ around in circles before finally coming to a stop in the opposite lane.
13. Lightening _______________ a house in Victoria last night, starting a fire which destroyed two homes.
14. Do you think that Quebec will _______________ from Canada some day?