The Selfish Giant - Oscar Wilde

The exercise was created 2020-02-20 by rubenbrundell. Question count: 17.




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  • A blossom a small flower, or the small flowers on a tree or plant.
  • An ogre a large frightening character in children's stories, much like a troll.
  • Gruff (of a person's voice) low and unfriendly, or (of a person's behaviour) unfriendly or showing no patience.
  • A trespasser a person who goes onto someone's land or enters their building without permission.
  • A chimney-pot a short pipe, often made of clay, attached to the top of a chimney.
  • A chimney a hollow structure that allows the smoke from a fire inside a building to escape to the air outside.
  • Hail small, hard balls of ice that fall from the sky like rain.
  • Rattle a sound similar to a series of quickly repeated knocks.
  • Slate a dark grey rock that can be easily divided into thin pieces, or a small, thin piece of this used to cover a roof.
  • Twitter (of a bird) to make a series of short, high sounds.
  • To fling (flung, past tense) to throw something or someone suddenly and with a lot of force.
  • Marvellous extremely good.
  • Hasten to make something happen sooner or more quickly.
  • Thee you; object form of thou; used when speaking to one person.
  • Hath in the past, the third person singular form of the present tense of "have".
  • Nay no.
  • Wound a damaged area of the body, such as a cut or hole in the skin or flesh made by a weapon.

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