EXERCISE XX.

Tell the difference in meaning between—­

1.  The acceptance (acceptation) of this word is doubtful. 2.  The acts (actions) of Napoleon were carefully observed. 3.  The colonel’s advance (advancement) was not long delayed. 4.  Literature has been Dr. Holmes’s avocation (vocation). 5.  The list of African dialects is approaching completeness (completion). 6.  The completion (completeness) of this new dictionary of the Latin
   language will make scholars glad.
7.  The professor advised me, when I went to Rome, to be especially careful
   in my observation (observance) of the religious ceremonies of Passion
   Week.
8.  This proposal (proposition) made both Republican and Democratic
   senators indignant.
9.  His mother’s solicitude (solicitation) induced Washington when he was a
   boy to give up his intention of going to sea.
10.  Shall I give your son a stimulus (stimulant)?

EXERCISE XXI.

Insert the proper word in each blank, and give the reason for your choice:—­

ACCEPTANCE, ACCEPTATION. 1.  The word “livery” is used in its original ——. 2.  This is a true saying and worthy of ——. 3.  The ——­ of a trust brings grave responsibility. 4.  He sent to the President a formal ——­ of the position. 5.  The assertion finds ——­ in every rank of society. 6.  In its common ——­ “philosophy” signifies “the search after wisdom.” 7.  The probability of this theory justifies its full ——.

ACCESS, ACCESSION. 8.  We are denied ——­ to the king. 9.  An ——­ of fever occurred at nightfall. 10.  The emperor at his ——­ takes an oath to maintain the constitution. 11. ——­ to the outer court was through a massive door. 12.  The only ——­ which the Roman Empire received was the province of
    Britain.
13.  A sudden ——­ of violent, burning fever had laid Peter’s mother-in-law
    prostrate.
14.  Victoria married after her ——­ to the throne. 15.  This allusion led to a fresh ——­ of feeling.

ACT, ACTION. 16.  I cannot do so cruel an ——. 17.  Another mode of ——­ was proposed by Henry Clay. 18.  The fifth book of the New Testament records the ——­s of the Apostles. 19.  To attempt resistance would be the ——­ of a madman. 20.  The monkey imitates the ——­s of its master.

ADVANCE, ADVANCEMENT. 21.  The ——­ of the expedition was impeded by bad roads. 22. ——­ in the army is slow. 23.  The Don and his companions, in their eager ——­, had got entangled in
    deep glens.
24.  My old position offered no hope of ——. 25.  His hopes of ——­ in England failing, Swift returned to Ireland.

ALLUSION, ILLUSION, DELUSION. 26.  There were two ——­s in his sermon to the riots. 27.  The cleverest, acutest men are often under an (a) ——­ about women. 28.  Longfellow’s “Footsteps of Angels” contains ——­s to the death
    of his wife.
29.  Our judgment of people is liable to be warped by ——­s of the
    imagination.
30.  Those other words of ——­ and folly, Liberty first and Union afterward.