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