Matched Terms – How well did you do? Here are the correct pairs:
1. rain dog | l. an atmospheric phenomenon; a small arc of rainbow |
2. princeton | a. a man’s short hairstyle |
3. sailor’s purse | t. the egg case of a skate or shark |
4. shinnery | c. a dense growth of dwarf oak |
5. pinkie | n. a small sailing vessel with a sharp stern |
6. pirok | e. a main dish pie, frequently containing fish and rice |
7. railroad | r. to hurry; to deal with quickly |
8. shab | j. to sneak away, slink off |
9. Skunk’s Misery | b. a nickname for an unimportant or out-of-the-way place |
10. poison apple | m. a tomato |
11. ridy-bob | p. a seesaw |
12. sad | i. of bread or cake: heavy, dense, soggy |
13. sill cock | d. a water faucet placed on the outside of a building |
14. sandy | f. a trick, deception |
15. prairie | g. a vacant lot or city block |
16. scraper | k. a rascal; critter, varmint |
17. read out | o. to reprimand; criticize |
18. rag bee | q. a work party in which participants make new articles from old pieces of cloth |
19. reina | s. a rockfish (Sebastes elongatus) |
20. rotten | h. of ice: crumbling, disintegrating, becoming porous |