Vocabulary matching activity for children aged 10-11, with definitions to match to corresponding words.

Let’s go step by step to match each word with its correct definition.

We have these words:
- zoologist
- hilarious
- permit
- fortnight
- banjo
- insufficient
- patriarch
- decamp

And these definitions:

1. Very funny → This means something that makes you laugh a lot. The best match is hilarious.

2. To allow → This means to give permission. The word for that is permit.

3. A period of two weeks → That’s exactly what fortnight means (from “fourteen nights”).

4. A stringed musical instrument → Looking at the list, banjo is a musical instrument with strings.

5. Not enough → This means lacking or not sufficient. The word is insufficient.

6. To go away secretly and suddenly → That’s what decamp means — to leave quickly and quietly, often without telling anyone.

7. Someone who specializes in zoology → Zoology is the study of animals. So someone who studies animals professionally is a zoologist.

8. The head of a family or tribe → That’s called a patriarch — usually an older male leader of a family or group.

Now let’s double-check each pairing:

1. Very funny → hilarious ✔
2. To allow → permit ✔
3. Two weeks → fortnight ✔
4. Stringed instrument → banjo ✔
5. Not enough → insufficient ✔
6. Go away secretly → decamp ✔
7. Studies animals → zoologist ✔
8. Head of family/tribe → patriarch ✔

All matches are logical and fit standard dictionary definitions.

Final Answer:
1. hilarious
2. permit
3. fortnight
4. banjo
5. insufficient
6. decamp
7. zoologist
8. patriarch