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Interactions 1 Writing, 4/e
Cheryl Pavlik
Margaret Keenan Segal

Cultures of the World

Building Vocabulary

Rewrite the folktale using words that make sense. There is more than one possible answer for some blanks.



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A _____ king was once lost in a _____. It was _____ at night. He was tired, _____, and _____. He at last reached the _____ of a poor _____. The _____ was working, and his _____ was home along. She was cooking _____ on the fire when she _____ someone at the door.

The king asked her for _____. "We are very _____," she explained, "but we can give you _____ for dinner and a _____ on the floor for a bed." The king _____ accepted the kind _____ woman's offer. He sat down to dinner with _____ and ate a _____ plate of potatoes. "These are better than the best _____," he exclaimed. Then he _____ out on the floor and _____ fell asleep.