Sentences:  His ____ manner gave no hint of the ____ within him.  The
____ sweep of the stream caused her not the slightest ____.  Do not ____
yourself with the thought that you are putting me to any ____.

(1 and 2 combined) Pervade, invade, evasion, vade mecum.

Sentences:  He promised that there would be no ____ of payments. 
Byron’s Childe Harold was my ____ during my travels in Switzerland
and Italy.  The fragrance of heliotrope ____ the room.  You must not ____ my
privacy like this.

(1) Avail, prevail, prevalent, equivalent, valiant, validity, invalid, invalidate; (2) valetudinarian, valediction, valence.

Sentences:  The ____ of the agreement has been thoroughly
established.  Our cause is just, and must ____.  It is ____ to admitting
that the terms are now ____.  It was a ____ act and ____ the concessions
previously wrested from us.  The ____ impression is that mere ingenuity
will not ____.

(1) Virtue, virile, virgin, virtually; (2) virago, virtuoso, triumvir.

Sentences:  It was ____ a new arrangement.  It is ____ soil.  To
be ____ and daring is every boy’s dream. ____ is its own reward.

(1) Revive, survival, convivial, vivid, vivify, vivacious, vivisection; (2) vive (le roi), qui vive, bon vivant, tableau vivant.

Sentences:  He has a ____ manner, a ____ spirit.  The ____ of the
opposition to the ____ of animals is very marked.  You cannot ____ a dead
cause or scarcely ____ memories of it.  The ____ coloring of her cheeks was
a sure sign of health, or of skill.

THIRD GENERAL EXERCISE

Find the key-syllable (in a few instances the key-syllables) of each of the following words.  How does it affect the meaning of the word?  Does it appear, perhaps in disguised form, in any of the words immediately preceding or following?  Can you bring to mind other words that embody it?

Innovation Commonwealth Welfare Wayfarer
Adjournment Rival Derivation Arrive
Denunciation Denomination Ignominy Synonym
Patronymic Parliament Dormitory Demented
Presumptuous Indent Dandelion Trident
Indenture Contemporary Disseminate Annoy
Odium Desolate Impugn Efflorescent
Arbor vitae Consider Constellation Disaster
Suburb Address Dirigible Dirge
Indirectly Desperate Inoperative Benevolent
Voluntary Offend Enumerate Dilapidate
Request Exquisite Exonerate Approximate
Insinuate Resurgence Insurrection Rapture
Exasperate Complacent Dimension Commensurate
Preclude Cloister Turnpike Travesty
Atone Incarnate Charnal Etiquette
Rejuvenate Eradicate Quiet Requiem
Acquiesce Ambidextrous Inoculate Divulge
Proper Appropriate Omnivorous Voracious
Devour Escritoire Mordant Remorse
Miser Hilarious Exhilarate Rudiment
Erudite Mark Marquis Libel
Libretto Vague Vagabond Extravagant
Souse Saucer Oyster Ostracize