How Big? How Heavy?
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Puzzle Five Solution
Materials Designed to Build Vocabulary - For English as a Second Language
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Solution:
- Prepositions (up, down, over, under, above, below)
- Past Participles beginning with "s" in lines 1-9 (slept, stirred, smiled, scrunched, supposed)
- Geometric shapes (triangle, hexagon, pentagon, square, circle, rectangle, octagon)
- Synonyms for a person who is "physically of ample size" (obese, overweight, well-endowed, heavy, large)
- Terms of the American measurement system (ounce, gallon, inch, pound, quart, acre, mile, yard, foot)
- Terms of the Metric measurement system, Canadian spelling (gram, liter, tonne, meter, kilometer, hectare, centimeter, kilogram)
- Bicycle parts (pedal, wheel, tire, chain, spoke, carrier, seat, tube)
- Synonyms for "lack of noise or activity" (quiet, peaceful, tranquil, calm, silent, still)
- Synonyms for "to take by mouth" (sip, suck, drink, quaff, guzzle)
- Synonyms for "to move quickly" (run, dash, hurry, dart, sprint).
Crossing out the words above leaves you with a quotation from John Milton's Sonnet, On His Blindness, "They also serve who only stand and wait."
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