Question

Match the underlined words in the lines from John Milton's Paradise Lost with their definitions. You may use a dictionary or any other reference material if you do not know the meaning of a word based on the context alone.
Tiles:
-Distress
-Cunning
-Eternal Punishment
-Grassy Area

Pairs:
-With hideous ruine and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
-Under a tuft of shade that on a green
Stood whispering soft, by a fresh Fountain side
-Both of lost happiness and lasting pain
Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes
That witness'd huge affliction and dismay
Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate
-Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd

Answer 1

distress = dismay

perdition=eternal punishment

green = grassy area

guile = cunning

Answer 2

These are the lines from John Milton's Paradise Lost and their definitions:

• Distress: Both of lost happiness and lasting pain / Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes / That witness'd huge affliction and dismay / Mixt with obdurate pride and stedfast hate
• Cunning: Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile / Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
• Eternal Punishment: With hideous ruine and combustion down / To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
• Grassy Area: Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side