English Vocabulary Exercises - War, Violence & Conflict - Exercise 4-4

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. The father _______________ the death of his daughter by killing the man who had murdered her.
2. I _______________ my head on the car when I was getting something out of the trunk.
3. A space vehicle must move at a rate of at least 17 miles per second to _______________ Earth's gravitational pull.
4. In the past in Fiji, dead bodies of the _______________ were usually eaten on the battlefield.
5. She went to the meeting _______________ with all the information she needed.
6. The _______________ troops celebrated in the streets of Paris.
7. In February of 1971, the male voters of Liechtenstein _______________ a referendum on giving women the right to vote.
8. American talk show host Phil Donahue once remarked that _______________ is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
9. Truth and integrity seem to have become the first _______________ of this dirty election campaign.
10. Camels have long, curly eyelashes and bushy eyebrows to _______________ their eyes from the sand, and shield them from the desert sun.
11. We could hear people in the burning building screaming in fear and _______________.
12. She _______________ cancer for 10 years before finally dying of the disease.
13. The police were charged with _______________ after a man was nearly beaten to death while in jail.