For the Week ending 01/27/12
Directions: Choose the word that matches with the definition and appropriately fits into the blank space in the sentence.
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low, flat, swampy land; a bog or marsh; low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation
In the southeastern district of Lincolnshire and the northern part of Cambridgeshire, a vast extent of flat land, intersected in every direction by rivers and dykes, is known as the _______ country |
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a ditch or moat
Avebury had at one time within a great rampart and a _______, which is still forty feet deep, a large circle of rough unhewn stones, and within this two circles each containing a smaller concentric circle. |
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a low tract of land, especially when moist or marshy; shallow troughlike depression that carries water mainly during rainstorms or snow melts
I went to the top of a hill and saw the colt at the far side of the pasture in what we call the _____ -- low, wet ground, where weeds abound. |
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land covered with grassy turf; a lawn or meadow
The moonlight on the lawn was tremulous, as if the _______ were a rippling sea. |
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an unforested rolling plain; a moor; a grassland
The house stood out in the open, a broad _______, devoid of trees, the sparse vegetation stubbled with smooth rocks. |