Insert the proper word in each blank, and give the reason for your choice:—­[106]

ACCEPT, EXCEPT. 1.  Let us ——­ the terms which they propose. 2.  In saying that the Alexandrians have a bad character, I ——­ a few
   persons.
3.  Why did you not ——­ the gift? 4.  He was ——­ed from the general condemnation. 5.  It gives me pleasure to ——­ your invitation.

ADVERTISE, ADVISE. 6.  The procession was ——­d to start at half-past two o’clock. 7.  Under these circumstances we ——­ total abstinence. 8.  The merchants were ——­d of the risk. 9.  When I return, I shall ——­ you.

AFFECT, EFFECT. 10.  She was greatly ——­ed by the news. 11.  When a man is hardened in crime, no fear can ——­ him. 12.  They sailed away without ——­ing their purpose. 13.  What he planned, he ——­ed. 14.  Bodily exercise indirectly ——­s all the organs of the body. 15.  The loud crash ——­ed my hearing for a while. 16.  Severe cold will ——­ peach-trees. 17.  The invention of the telephone was not ——­ed without great labor.

ALLEVIATE, RELIEVE. 18.  Some fruits are excellent to ——­ thirst. 19.  He gave me an opiate to ——­ my pain. 20.  His charity went far to ——­ the wants of the poor. 21.  My cares were ——­ed by his friendship.

ALLOW, ADMIT, THINK. 22.  He ——­(ed) it would rain to-day. 23.  He would not ——­ her to come. 24.  I ——­ she will come. 25.  He at last ——­s that I was right.

ALLUDE TO, REFER TO, MENTION.
26.  A Latin inscription ——­ing (to) the name of the road is cut on
    the rock.
27.  The people of the country, ——­ing (to) the whiteness of its foam,
    call the cascade “Sour-milk Falls.”
28.  I proceed to another affection of our nature which bears strong
    testimony to our being born for religion.  I ——­ (to) the emotion which
    leads us to revere what is higher than we.
29.  He ——­s (to) enterprises which he cannot reveal but with the hazard
    of his life.

ARGUE, AUGUR. 30.  It ——­s ill for an army when there are dissensions at headquarters. 31.  Not to know me ——­s yourself unknown. 32.  E’en though vanquished he could ——­ still.

COMPARE TO, COMPARE WITH, CONTRAST.
33.  The generosity of one person is most strongly felt when ——­d to
    (with) the meanness of another.
34.  In Luke xv. the sinner is ——­d to (with) a sheep.
35.  Solon ——­d the people to (with) the sea, and orators to (with) the
    winds; because the sea would be quiet if the winds did not trouble it.
36.  It appears no unjust simile to ——­ the affairs of this great continent
    to (with) the mechanism of a clock.
37.  Goethe ——­s translators to (with) carriers who convey good wine to
    market, though it gets unaccountably watered by the way.
38.  To ——­ the goodness of God to (with) our rebellion will tend to make
    us humble and thankful.
39.  He who ——­s his own condition to (with) that of others will see that
    he has many reasons to consider himself fortunate.
40.  The treatment of the Indians by Penn may be ——­d to (with)
the treatment of them by other colonists.
41.  Burke ——­s the parks of a city to (with) the lungs of the body.