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PHILIPPINE LITERATURE
Acedera Rosito Jr, D.
BSICT-4A

Activity 10: Check Your Vocabulary

Fiction: The Dog Eaters by Leoncio P. Deriada
Un jumble the letters after each statement to form the synonym of the underlined word,

1. “Those filthy men! “she snarled. “Whose dog did they slaughter today?”

RIDYT = DIRTY

2. Mariana opened her mouth for harsher invectives but a sharp cry from the
bedroom arrested her.

DOSLCING = SCOLDING

3. Once again, her eyes surveyed the room with repulsion.

TIDSGUS = DISGUST

4. Mariana dashed out of the room, her right hand tight around the empty bottle.

ARN = RAN

5. Their voices offended the ears just as the stench from the garbage dump at
the Artiaga-Mabini junction offended the nostrils.

DBA LEMSL = BAD SMELL

6. He ran upstairs, encircled Mariana once , and then sniffed her hands,

LINDHEA = INHALE

7. The tall bottle looked grotesque on the table; tiny, gnarled roots seemed in
twist like worms or miniature umbilical cords.

LRMAFEOMD = MALFORMED

8. And like a man possessed, he hurled the bottle out of the window,

RETWH = THREW

9. Mariana laughed deliriously.

HALTREYSICLY = HYSTERICALLY

10.She released the chain and the canine carcass dropped with a thud on the
ground below.

ADDE GDO = DEAD DOG