English Vocabulary Exercises - War, Violence & Conflict - Exercise 3-3

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. The child was _______________ his grapes with a toothpick, and popping them in his mouth.
2. Muslims believe one must _______________ to the will of Allah, the one God.
3. The victim was stabbed in the hands and arms while trying to fight off his _______________.
4. The dead soldiers were quickly buried, and the _______________ were taken out by helicopter to a nearby field hospital.
5. Teenagers generally _______________ against authority in our culture.
6. We heard a loud _______________, and then turned around in time to see the car burst into flames.
7. It took Alexander the Great 13 years to _______________ an empire spanning from Greece to India.
8. According to the Canadian law regarding firearms, guns and _______________ must be stored separately.
9. Assurnasirpal, king of Assyria from 883-859 B.C. boasted that he dyed the mountains red with the blood of his _______________ enemies.
10. His lawyer _______________ him, saying he was at home asleep at the time the bank was being robbed.
11. On September 3, 1939, World War Two began, two days after Hitler _______________ Poland.
12. The school bully _______________ his classmates into doing what he wanted.
13. Mike gave Lawrence a friendly _______________ on the shoulder to let him know everything was okay.