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How Big? How Heavy? - Cross Out Puzzle Five

Materials Designed to Build Vocabulary - For English as a Second Language Students and Teachers

by Sally Jennings

Instructions: Cross out (put a line through) the words in the diagram in the order of the numbered instructions below. You will be left with a famous quotation from a Sonnet by John Milton, when remaining words are read left to right, top to bottom.


A
 B
 C
 D
 E
 F
1
 TRIANGLE
 THEY
 SIP
 POUND
 SLEPT
 OBESE
2
 UP
 QUIET
 OVERWEIGHT
 ALSO
 GRAM
 HEXAGON
3
 OUNCE
 STIRRED
 PEDAL
 DOWN
 SUCK
 SERVE
4
 WHO
 LITER
 PENTAGON
 RUN
 QUART
 PEACEFUL
5
 DASH
 OVER
 ONLY
 TONNE
 SMILED
 WHEEL
6
 WELL-ENDOWED
 TRANQUIL
 TIRE
 DRINK
 SQUARE
 INCH
7
 HURRY
 CIRCLE
 GALLON
 DART
 UNDER
 METER
8
 KILOMETER
 CHAIN
 SCRUNCHED
 STAND
 CALM
 ACRE
9
 ABOVE
 QUAFF
 MILE
 RECTANGLE
 HECTARE
 SUPPOSED
10
 SPOKE
 AND
 CENTIMETER
 SILENT
 HEAVY
 CARRIER
11
 YARD
 LARGE
 SPRINT
 GUZZLE
 WAIT
 SEAT
12
 STILL
 OCTAGON
 TUBE
 BELOW
 FOOT
 KILOGRAM

CROSS OUT:
  1. Prepositions.
  2. Past participles beginning with "s" in lines 1-9.
  3. Geometric shapes.
  4. Synonyms for a person who is "physically of ample size."
  5. Terms of the American measurement system.
  6. Terms of the Metric measurement system (Canadian spelling).
  7. Bicycle parts.
  8. Synonyms for "lack of noise or activity."
  9. Synonyms for "to take by mouth."
  10. Synonyms for "to move quickly."

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