Sentences: ____ of resting in a harbor, the ships were tossed about
in an open ____.  Little did it ____ him to cling to the old ____.  A ____
nestled by the highway.  To be known as  ____ now stood him in good ____.

Strict, string, strain (bind):  (1) district, restrict, strictly, stringent, strain, restrain, constrain; (2) stricture, constriction, boa constrictor, astringent, strait, stress.

Sentences:  We ____ them by means of ____ regulations.  He ____ them
to this course by his mere example.  He attended ____ to his duties.  You
should not ____ your pleasures in this way.  The ____ of long effort was
telling on him.

Tact, tang, tain, ting, teg (touch):  (1) tact, contact, intact, intangible, attain, taint, stain, tinge, contingent, integrity, entire, tint; (2) tactile, tactual, tangent, distain, attaint, attainder, integer, disintegrate, contagion, contaminate, contiguous.

Sentences:  His appointment is ____ upon his removing this ____ from
his name.  His ____ is such that no ____ with evil could leave any ____
upon him.  The contents were ____.  With ____ he hopes to ____ the ____
approval of his auditors.  It was a dark ____.  The reason is ____.

Tail (cut):  (1 and 2 combined) detail, curtail, entail, retail, tailor, tally.

Sentences:  He held the property in ____.  He kept the reckoning
straight by means of ____ cut in a shingle.  He resolved to ____ expenses
by visiting the ____ less often.  We need not go into ____.  The profit lies
in the difference between wholesale and ____ prices.

Tain (hold—­for related ten group see above under Two Admonitions):  (1 and 2 combined) detain, abstain, contain, obtain, maintain, entertain, pertain, appertain, sustain, retain.

Sentences:  Village life and things ____ thereto I shall willingly
____ from.  I ____ that precepts of this kind in no sense ____ to public
morals.  If the gentleman can ____ the consent of his second, the chair
will ____ the motion as he restates it.  Though your forces may ____ heavy
losses, they must ____ their position and ____ the enemy.

Term, termin (end, bound):  (1 and 2 combined) term, terminus, terminal, terminate, determine, indeterminate, interminable, exterminate.

Sentences:  At the ____ of the railroad stands a beautiful ____
station.  The manner in which we may ____ the agreement remains ____. 
He ____ that rather than yield he would make the negotiations ____.  During
the second ____ they ____ all the rodents about the school.

Tort (twist):  (1) torture, tortoise, retort, contort, distortion, extortionate, torch, (apple) tart, truss, nasturtium; (2) tort, tortuous, torsion, Dry Tortugas.