Write each word from the word bank beside its definition. Word bank: Rhine, wreck, rhubarb, wrath, wrap, playwright, wring, rhyme, rhinoceros, wrist. Definitions: 1. a great anger, 2. the part of the body between the hand and arm, 3. to squeeze or twist, 4. a person who writes plays, 5. the ruin of a ship, car, or other vehicle, 6. having the same sound at the end of words or verses, 7. a river flowing from Switzerland through Germany, and into the North Sea, 8. a huge animal with one or two horns on its nose found in Africa and Asia, 9. a plant with thick stalks that can be cooked or baked, 10. to cover with something. Complete each sentence by choosing the correct word from the word bank above: 11. The ____ has written many plays about her adventures. 12. One play is set on the ____ River in Germany. 13. In another she describes the ____ of a famous steamship. 14. Three of the plays are written in ____ rather than prose. 15. Toward critics she feels nothing but ____. 16. 'I'd like to ____ his neck,' she said of one critic.

Write each word from the word bank beside its definition. Word bank: Rhine, wreck, rhubarb, wrath, wrap, playwright, wring, rhyme, rhinoceros, wrist. Definitions: 1. a great anger, 2. the part of the body between the hand and arm, 3. to squeeze or twist, 4. a person who writes plays, 5. the ruin of a ship, car, or other vehicle, 6. having the same sound at the end of words or verses, 7. a river flowing from Switzerland through Germany, and into the North Sea, 8. a huge animal with one or two horns on its nose found in Africa and Asia, 9. a plant with thick stalks that can be cooked or baked, 10. to cover with something. Complete each sentence by choosing the correct word from the word bank above: 11. The ____ has written many plays about her adventures. 12. One play is set on the ____ River in Germany. 13. In another she describes the ____ of a famous steamship. 14. Three of the plays are written in ____ rather than prose. 15. Toward critics she feels nothing but ____. 16. 'I'd like to ____ his neck,' she said of one critic.

Answer

The exercise focuses on words where 'rh' and 'wr' make the 'r' sound. Definitions section: 1. wrath (great anger). 2. wrist (joint connecting hand and arm). 3. wring (to twist and squeeze). 4. playwright (a drafter of plays). 5. wreck (a destroyed vehicle). 6. rhyme (matching sounds at word endings). 7. Rhine (major European river). 8. rhinoceros (horned mammal). 9. rhubarb (edible stalk plant). 10. wrap (to cover). Sentence Completion section: 11. playwright (someone who writes plays). 12. Rhine (the river mentioned in the definitions). 13. wreck (referring to a steamship disaster). 14. rhyme (contrasted with prose, which is non-rhyming text). 15. wrath (intense anger directed at critics). 16. wring (part of the common idiom 'to wring someone's neck').