Tuesday, January 20, 2009

#951 - Answers to Questions 9501 to 9510 based o,n words ending in 'allow'

Here are the answers to the vocabulary test containing questions 9501 to 9510 based on ten words ending 'allow'.

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CHOICE BOX
WORDS ENDING IN '-ALLOW'
callow
disallow
fallow
hallow
mallow
sallow
shallow
swallow
tallow
wallow


9501. I will live in literature, wallow in it, revel in it, I will swim in ink! [Mark Twain in his Olivia]


9502. Callow youth marry callow young girls.


9503. "...he struck a light-- two inches of sallow, sorrowful,
consumptive tallow candle, that burned blue, and sputtered, and got discouraged and went out." [Mark Twain].


9504. Religions want to disallow gay marriage.


9505. One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy . [Aristotle]


9506. "How now my flesh, my naked fellow,
Dug of the sea, the glanded morrow,
Worm in the scalp, the staked and fallow." [Dylan Thomas]
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9507. "...By shallow rivers to whose falls / Melodious birds sing madrigals..." [Christopher Marlowe].


9508. The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. [Shakespeare in his 'Hamlet'] .


9509. I saw their flat sallow faces, their Sunday-best clothes, their curious capacity for enjoying themselves without displaying any sign of emotion. I saw them all as a challenge. [Arthur Christiansen].


9510. Mallows may grow in fallow lands.

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