quail
verb
To quail means to draw back in fear or to lose courage.
eg:All it takes is one nasty sneer from the bully to make us quail.
Q1:
Synonyms: (5 points)
Antonyms: (5 points)
Writing task: (20 points)
You may know a quail as a small, plump game bird. The verb to quail is not at all related to the bird. Who or what can make you quail? Write a funny poem or short story about a time when something made you quail - until you realized there was no cause for concern.
Q1
Synonyms: cower, shrink, flinch, recoil, fear
Antonyms: calm, face, brave
Q2
My mum went shopping,
Leaving me and my friend playing,
In the big house,
all by ourselves.
We were playing happily,
Until we heard a voice shouting,
Anybody there?
It came from downstairs,
Which made us terribly quail.
Our faces turned as pale as paper,
Our hands became as cold as ice,
Our blood almost stopped flowing,
Our mind was hardly thinking.
We at last got up our courage,
And went downstairs together.
We saw my mum’s mobile phone ringing,
“Anybody there”, “anybody there”
That’s what was making the scary noise
Whew
I guess it was no use for bringing our toy guns.