English Vocabulary Exercises - Verbs, Verbs and More Verbs - Exercise 6-2

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. The little girl's feet _______________ into the warm mud.
2. Some people believe that drinking green tea helps _______________ cancer.
3. Mosquitoes are _______________ to the colour blue twice as much as to any other colour.
4. A serious traffic accident _______________ traffic in the downtown core for over an hour.
5. My husband and my mother don't really like each other, but they _______________ one another for my sake.
6. She didn't _______________ having met me before, but I was sure I'd seen her at a friend's party.
7. The children _______________ around the fair for hours, looking at all the rides they couldn't afford to go on.
8. My arms and shoulders were aching after a couple of hours spent _______________ around the lake.
9. Regulation baseballs are _______________ by hand.
10. The meeting was _______________ by the noise being made by people in the next office.
11. The children all _______________ around the artist as he painted the picture.
12. The little boy _______________ his eyes during the scary part of the movie.
13. Taiiku no Hi, or Sports Day, is a national holiday in Japan, and is meant to _______________ healthy minds and bodies through physical activity.
14. The youths _______________ from the scene as soon as the police arrived.