Sentences:  The intruder he ____ in the early dawn-light might have
been man or beast; he could not have ____ one from the other.  After a long
search I ____ on the map the name of the town.  The teacher ____ the
throwing of the paper wad, but thought best not to ____ it.  “He that hath
eyes to ____, let him ____.”  I ____ the encounter.  “I hope to ____ my
Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.”  “When my eyes turn to
____ for the last time the sun in heaven.”  I sat by the flower and ____
the bee plunder it.  The scrawl on the paper was meaningless, but at length
by close attention he ____ secret writing.  “Your young men shall ____
visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”  He had ____ human nature
manifesting itself under various conditions.

Kill, slay, slaughter, massacre, butcher, murder, assassinate, execute, hang, electrocute, guillotine, lynch, despatch, decimate, crucify.

Sentences:  With the jawbone of an ass Samson ____ a thousand of his
enemies.  It was his duty as sheriff to ____ the criminal, and the method
decreed by the state was that he should ____ him.  Previously the method of
carrying out a sentence of death had been to ____ the criminal.  On our
left wing we lost one man in ten:  thus our lines were literally ____ On
our right wing, where we advanced to the attack in the open, our men were
simply ____.  After the garrison had laid down its arms the Indians ____
men, women, and children.  “I would not ____ thy soul.”  During the French
Revolution many of the nobility were ____.  In the country late fall is the
time to ____ hogs.  Thinking that his accomplice was no longer of use, he
quietly ____ him.  The anarchist who had ____ the governor was taken by a
mob and ____.

Sleep, slumber, repose, nap, doze, drowze, lethargy, dormancy, coma, trance, siesta.

Sentences:  Since he had not exerted himself beforehand, his state
was one of ____ rather than one of ____.  The sultry heat of the day put
him into a ____.  “Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the ____ syrops of
the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet ____ Which thou
ow[n]edst yesterday.”  Light and pleasant be thy ____.  “And still she slept
an azure-lidded ____.”  From the ____ induced by his injury the physicians
were unable to arouse him.  “Oh ____! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from
pole to pole!” “The poppied warmth of ____ oppress’d Her soothed limbs,
and soul fatigued away.”  In Spanish-speaking South American countries
every one expects to take his ____.  He lay down under the tree for a short
____ and had just fallen into a preliminary ____ when the picnic party
arrived.  “Macheth does murder ____, the innocent ____, ____ that knits up
the ravel’d sleave of care.”

Abolish, repeal, rescind, revoke, abrogate, annul, nullify, cancel, reverse.