The Century Vocabulary Builder eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 319 pages of information about The Century Vocabulary Builder.

The Century Vocabulary Builder eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 319 pages of information about The Century Vocabulary Builder.
Sentences:  With real ____ to their wishes he ____ to ____ the
goods by  ____.  The ____ of the sporting writers was that the ____
was ____ to his duties.  After ____ apart, the farmers ____ the use of
their most ____ acres for this experiment.  To be mortal is to ____.

Fide (trust, believe, have faith):  (1) fidelity, confide, confident, diffident, infidel, perfidious, bona fide, defiance, affiance; (2) fiduciary, affidavit, fiance, auto da fe, Santa Fe.

Sentences:  He was ____ that the man was an ____.  He had ____ in
a ____ rascal.  He had been ____ for years and had proved his ____.  Though
we are somewhat ____ in making it, you may be sure it is a ____ offer.  His
attitude toward his father is one of gross ____.

Grade, gress (walk, go):  (1) grade, gradual, graduate, degrade, digress, Congress, aggressive, progressive, degree; (2) gradation, Centigrade, ingress, egress, transgression, retrogression, ingredient.

Sentences:  His failure to ____ from college made him feel ____
especially as his cronies all received their ____.  The engine lost
speed ____ as it climbed the long ____.  I ____ to remark that some members
of ____ are more ____ than ____.

Hab, hib (have, hold):  (1) habit, habitation, inhabitant, exhibit, prohibition, ability, debit, debt; (2) habituate, habiliment, habeas corpus, cohabit, dishabille, inhibit.

Sentences:  The ____ of the island ____ an ____ to live without
permanent ____.  It was his ____ to glance first at the ____ side of his
ledger, as he was much worried about his  ____.  Most women favor ____.

Hale, heal, hol, whole (sound):  (1) hale, hallow, Hallowe’en, heal, health, unhealthy, healthful, holy, holiday, hollyhock, whole, wholesome; (2) halibut, halidom.

Sentences:  Though he lived in a ____ climate, he was ____.  The food
was ____, the man ____ and hearty.  He did not think of a ____ as ____.  We
had ____ in our garden almost until ____.  He wept at hearing the ____ name
of his mother.  For a ____ month the wound refused to ____.

It (go):  (1) exit, transit, transition, initial, initiative, ambition, circuit, perishable; (2) itinerant, transitory, obituary, sedition, circumambient.

Sentences:  The ____ was broken.  It was his ____ shipment of  ____
goods, and they suffered a good deal in ____.  His ____ was to be regarded
as a man of great ____.  His ____ was less effective than his entrance.

Ject (throw):  (1) eject, reject, subject, project, objection, injection, dejected, conjecture, jet, jetty; (2) abject, traject, adjective, projectile, interjection, ejaculate, jetsam, jettison.

Sentences:  With ____ mien he watched the waves lash the ____. 
His scheme was ____ to much ridicule and then ____, and he himself
was ____ from the room.  From a pipe that ____ from the corner of the
building came a ____ of dirty water.  He could only ____ what their ____
was.  The ____ brought immediate relief.

Jud, jur, just (law, right):  (1) judge, judicious, judicial, prejudice, jurist, jurisdiction, just, justice, justify; (2) judicature, adjudicate, juridical, jurisprudence, justiciary, de jure.

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