Sentences:  He was a ____   ____ of the measure, but no sooner was
the order issued than he wished it ____.  In ____ the assembly he ____ the
enthusiasm of his followers.  That he should give ____ utterance to this
thought ____ me; but the words, once spoken, were ____.

Volve, volute (roll, turn):  (1) involve, devolve, revolver, evolution, revolutionary, revolt, voluble, volume, vault; (2) circumvolve, convolution, convolvulus.

Sentences:  It ____ upon me to put down the ____.  In this ____ the
heroine is ____ and the hero handy with a ____.  He was ____ in a ____
uprising.  He had laid the papers away in a ____.  The ____ of civilization
is a tedious story.

SECOND GENERAL EXERCISE

Copy both sections (the first consists of fairly familiar terms, the second of less familiar terms) of each of the following word-groups.  Find the key-syllable, underscore it in each word, observe any modifications in its form.  Decide for yourself what its meaning is; then verify or correct your conclusion by reference to the dictionary.  Study the influence of the key-syllable upon the meaning of each separate word; find the word’s original signification, its present signification.  Add to each word-group as many cognate words as you can (1) think of for yourself, (2) find in the dictionary by looking under the key-syllable.  Fill the blanks in the sentences after each word-group with terms chosen from the first section of words in that group.

(1) Animosity, unanimous, magnanimity; (2) animate, animadvert, equanimity.

Sentences:  It was the ____ opinion that to so noble a foe ____
should be shown.  The spiteful man continued to display his ____.

(1) Annual, annuity, anniversary, perennial, centennial, solemn; (2) superannuate, biennial, millennium.

Sentences:  The amateur gardener made the ____ discovery that the
plant was a ____.  The ____ celebration of the great man’s birth took a
____ and imposing form in our city.  By a happy coincidence the increase in
his ____ came on wedding ____.

(1) Audit, auditor, auditorium, audience, inaudible, obey; (2) aurist, auricular, auscultation.

Sentences:  His voice may not have been ____, but it certainly did
not fill the ____.  Not one ____ in all that vast ____ but was willing to
____ his slightest suggestion.  He was not willing that they should ____
his accounts.

(1) Automatic, automobile, autocrat, autobiography; (2) autograph, autonomy.

Sentences:  The ____ dictated to his secretary the third chapter
of his ____.  The habit of changing gear properly in an ____ becomes
almost ____.

(1) Cant, descant, incantation, chant, enchant, chanticleer, accent, incentive; (2) canto, canticle, cantata, recant, chantry, chanson, precentor.

Sentences:  He ____ upon this topic in a queer, foreign ____. 
Such utterances are mere sanctimonious ____; I had rather listen to the
____ of a voodoo conjurer.  The little girl from the city was ____ with the
crowing of ____.  The ____ of the choir somehow gave him the ____ to try
again.

(1) Cent, per cent, century, centennial; (2) centenary, centime, centurion, centimeter, centigrade.