Sentences:  He produced evidence to ____ the charge.  They could not
____ the facts we presented.  It is difficult to ____ those who are
spreading these rumors, yet all right-minded people think the rumors
false.  “I put thee now to thy book-oath; ____ it if thou canst.”  Either
admit or ____ the truth of this allegation.  Such a law ____ the first
principles of justice.

Destroy, demolish, raze, annihilate, exterminate, eradicate, extirpate, obliterate.

Sentences:  All the ferocious wild animals are gradually being
____.  As weeds from a field, so is it difficult to ____ all the faults
from man’s nature.  But how shall we ____ the cause of this disease?  Fire
____ the bank.  The wrecking crew ____ the building.  She tried to ____ the
terrible scene from her memory. “____ all that’s made To a green thought
in a green shade.”  The cyclone ____ the church.  The Spanish Inquisition
tried to ____ heresy. “____ out the written troubles of the brain.” 
The army was not only defeated; it was ____.  “A bold peasantry, their
country’s pride.  When once ____, can never be supplied.”

Die, expire, perish, decease, succumb.

Sentences:  All men are mortal and must ____.  “As wax melteth before
the fire, so let the wicked ____ at the presence of God.”  “I still had
hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return, and ____ at home at last.” 
The late ____ Mr. Brown left all his property to his family.  “Cowards ____
many times before their deaths.”  “The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In
corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant giant ____.” 
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not ____
from the earth.”  “Thus on Maeander’s flowery margin lies Th’ ____ swan,
and as be sings he dies.”  Over a thousand people ____ in the fire at the
theater.  “To ____, to sleep; to sleep:  perchance to dream.”  He ____ to a
lingering disease.  “Aye, but to ____, and go we know not where; To lie in
cold obstruction and to rot.”  “Wind my thread of life up higher, Up,
through angels’ hands of fire!  I aspire while I ____.”

Dip, douse, duck, plunge, immerge, immerse, submerge, sink, dive.

Sentences:  He ____ his head under the hydrant.  The Baptists ____ at
baptism.  She ____ the cloth into the dye.  The sophomores ____ the freshmen
into the icy water of the lake.  Paul Jones could not ____ the enemy’s
ship; he therefore resolved to board it.  The wreck lay ____ in forty
fathoms of water.  Uncle Tom ____ overboard to rescue the child.  When the
gun is discharged, the loon does not rise from the water; it ____ Lewis
became badly strangled when the other boys ____ him.

Disease, sickness, illness, indisposition, ailment, affection, complaint, disorder, distemper, infirmity, malady. (With this group contrast the healthful group.)

Sentences:  He was suffering the ____ of age.  Cancer is still in
many instances an incurable ____ The ____ of the lady ended as soon as the
maid told her the callers had gone away.  It was an old ____ of the
tonsils, but this time the child’s ____ was slight.  “To help me through
this long ____, my life.”

Disloyal, false, unfaithful, faithless, traitorous, treasonable, treacherous, perfidious.