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Darrell added the ____ of the coins, but not even they brought about the ____ he sought between a.s.sets and obligations.

Though ____ socially, he was not what you would term a ____ man.

His ____ in this time of trial was exemplary.

She praised the ____ of the children at the party.

He possibly had ____, but not an active ____.

Her social manner was ____. The ____ influence of sunlight.

____ his personal friends, many people he had not even met stood ____ his sickbed.

At this threat the face of the heroine ____. With a pail of cheap paint he ____ the dingy wall.

After telling his paris.h.i.+oners to be mindful of their ____, the clergyman p.r.o.nounced the ____.

Daily attacks on exposed redoubts marked the progress of the ____. The fleet lay there in silent ____ of the port.


The incident proved that his ____ was not founded in real ____.


When you come, ____ the official doc.u.ments with you.

____ me the scales you will find in the granary yonder.


A man with ____ shoulders stood in the ____, open doorway.

After they had solemnly ____ their comrade, they ____ the treasure. They also ____ their comrade's dog.

2. Consult the dictionary for the distinction between the members of each of the following pairs. Determine whether the words are correctly used in the ill.u.s.trative sentences. (Some are; some are not.)

Can I stay at home this afternoon, papa? Because of the floods, the train beyond doubt may not get through.

His character among them was very good. A man's reputation can never be taken from him.

Your conduct is peevish; it is childishly so.

Her innocence was childlike.

He was always citing s.n.a.t.c.hes of Tennyson. We might quote Hamlet's soliloquy on suicide as an example of Shakespeare's ability to go to the heart of deep questions.

He claimed that Jefferson was our third President.

He a.s.serted that bears sleep through the winter.

At the masquerade ball we each wore special clothing. The mariner who had swum from the wreck to the desert sh.o.r.e had not a shred of costume.

Comfort after labor. The case of owning a home.

Petty commercial transactions. A mercantile treaty.

This pavilion was the common play-house for the children of the neighborhood. Ward and Aker held this property as their mutual possession.

This addition is the complement of our quota. He paid his dancing partner a compliment.

His downrightness is the complement of his uprightness. As a supplement to his wages he received an occasional bonus.

He put in the completing touches. He had finished the task.

His composure was not to be shaken. After this inner tumult came equanimity.

Numbers of such magnitude are scarcely comprehensible. That men by the million should die for a cause is a thing not really comprehensive.

Who does not feel within him a compulsion to help the weak? It was through obligation, through having slave-drivers stand over them, that these wretched folk built the pyramids.

I congratulated my friend on his appointment to the commission. I also felicitated the stranger on his appointment.

Three consecutive convictions proved the ability of the prosecuting attorney. The quiet pa.s.sing of successive summer days.

Its size was insignificant, even contemptible. He won the prize by a contemptuous trick.

The investigator was surprised to find the tradition of such long continuation. We waited impatiently for the continuance of the story in the next issue.

I am more and more amazed at the perfection of man's corporal frame. His corporeal vigor was unusual.

A man may correct many of his false judgments on current affairs by studying history. The mistake is ours; it shall be rectified.

The cozy fit of a garment. A snug place by the fire.

We crawled forward at dawn to surprise their outposts. In his humility he fairly crept on the earth.

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