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12. You could see any ---- of cabs standing in front of the theatre.
13. A great ---- of books and papers covered the table.
14. Gulliver asked the king of Lilliput for a large ---- of iron bars and a considerable ---- of rope.
15. What ---- of paper is needed for one issue of _Harper's Weekly_?
16. Such a (an) ---- of sheep as we saw to-day!
17. There is a large ---- of silver bullion in the Treasury waiting to be coined.
ARGUMENT, PLEA.
18. Every whisper in the court-room was hushed as Mr. N. rose before the jury and began his--in behalf of the prisoner.
19. The ---- of Smith, when arraigned before the court, was that he had acted in self-defence.
20. The only ---- available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
BALANCE, REMAINDER, REST.
21. The ---- of the hour is spent in the study of some poem.
22. I have a ---- at my banker's.
23. The ---- of the boys went home.
24. For the ---- of the week we stayed at home.
25. The account shows a ---- of $12.46.
26. Give John and Horace four of the six apples; you may have the ----.
27. Give the ---- of our dinner to Tommy, our cat.
CENTRE, MIDDLE.
28. There is a crack running down the ---- of the wall.
29. A table stood in the ---- of the room.
30. A path runs through the ---- of the park.
31. In the ---- of the garden was a fountain.
32. He parts his hair in the ----.
33. The arrow struck the ---- of the target.
CHARACTER, REPUTATION.
34. This man has an excellent ---- for honesty.
35. Every one admires the ---- of Was.h.i.+ngton.
36. Mr. Arnold won great ---- as a critic.
37. Oh, I have lost my ----.
38. The outlaws of Yorks.h.i.+re were men of loose ----.
39. A distinguished general may lose his ---- through a single blunder.
40. ---- is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
COMPLEMENT, COMPLIMENT.
41. Present my ----s to your father.
42. The s.h.i.+p has its ---- of stores.
43. The ---- of an angle is the difference between the angle and a right angle.
44. "True friends.h.i.+p loathes such oily ----."
45. In the sentence, "He is ill," "ill" is the ---- of the verb "is."
46. "This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of ----."
CONSCIENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS.
47. The ---- of the purity of his motives consoled him for his unpopularity.
48. My ---- hath a thousand several tongues.
49. I felt a shock, I saw the car topple over, and then I lost ----.
COUNCIL, COUNSEL.
50. "No man will take ----, but every man will take money; therefore money is better than ----."--_Swift._ 51. The members of the cabinet form a sort of secret ---- of the President.
52. Webster was one of the ---- in the trial of the Knapps for the murder of Captain White.
CUSTOM, HABIT.
53. De Quincey acquired the ---- of using opium from first using it to relieve neuralgic pains.
54. Dancing round a May-pole is a ---- many hundreds of years old.
55. As his ---- was, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath.
56. Man is a bundle of ----s.
57. Those national ----s are best which lead to good ----s among the people.
58. A loose life brings a man into ----s of dissipation.
59. It was the ---- of Scotch Highlanders to go bareheaded.
60. It is a good ---- to rise early, because this will soon become a ----.
DECEPTION, DECEIT.
61. He was guilty of a long course of ----.
62. Her character would be charming if it were not for her ----.
63. He won my confidence by base ----.
64. Deceivers seldom profit by their ----.
65. ---- Is of the very nature and essence of sin.
EGOTIST, EGOIST.
66. He is an ----, for he is always talking about himself.
67. ----s are the pest of society; they are always obtruding their ailments on others.
EMIGRATION, IMMIGRATION.
68. The increase in Chinese ---- is a matter for serious consideration by the United States Senate.
69. The Chinese government encourages ---- to America.
70. ---- is one cause of the rapid growth of our population.
71. The ---- of the French n.o.bility at the time of the French Revolution was a political blunder.
ENORMITY, ENORMOUSNESS.
72. The ---- of the cost of the civil war startles the student of history.
73. Burke drew such a vivid picture of the ---- of the Nabob of Arcot's crimes that ladies in the audience fainted.
74. Visitors do not at first realize the ---- of St. Peter's, at Rome.
ESTEEM, ESTIMATE, ESTIMATION.
75. In what ---- is he held by his townsmen?
76. In my ---- she is the best of women.
77. We can form an ---- of the amount of water in the air.
FALSENESS, FALSITY.
78. We have already seen the ---- of that hypothesis.
79. Arnold was despised for his ----.
80. Piety is opposed to hypocrisy and ----.
81. The prince is in danger of betrayal through the ---- of his servant.
82. The ---- of this reasoning is evident.
