Matching Pairs Matura - Unit 1. (Reading 2)Online version Matching exercise by Réka Szilágyi 1 a stream (e.g. a mountain stream) 2 sight (If your sight is poor, you should not drive a car.) 3 severe (e.g. a severe chest infection) 4 partially (The meat was only partially cooked. Synonyms) 5 a bead (She wore a necklace of brightly coloured wooden beads.) 6 to persist in 7 mute (The president has remained mute) 8 against all odds (Against all the odds, he recovered.) 9 rage (I was frightened because I had never seen him in such a rage before.) the ability to see very serious: (a period of) extreme or violent anger: you do or achieve something although there were a lot of problems and you were not likely to succeed: not completely: to try to do or continue doing something in a determined but often unreasonable way: silent or not speaking: a small, coloured, often round piece of plastic, wood, glass, etc. with a hole through it. water that flows naturally along a fixed route formed by a channel cut into rock or ground, usually at ground level: