The Century Vocabulary Builder eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 319 pages of information about The Century Vocabulary Builder.

The Century Vocabulary Builder eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 319 pages of information about The Century Vocabulary Builder.
Sentences:  The king discovered many ____ schemes among those who
pretended to be his loyal supporters.  England’s enemies have long called
her “____ Albion.”  They were afraid the Indian guide would betray them by
some ____ action.  “O you beast!  O ____ coward!  O dishonest wretch!” He was
____ to his adopted country.  “Bloody, bawdy villain!  Remorseless, ____,
lecherous, kindless villain!  O! vengeance!”

Do, perform, execute, accomplish, achieve, effect.

Sentences:  An officer ____ the orders with despatch.  He ____ a
mighty name for himself.  “If it were ____ when ’tis ____ then ’twere well
It were ____ quickly.”  Constant efforts will ____ miracles.  The student
____ the problems quickly.  The doctor hopes his new treatment will ____ a
cure.  “God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to ____.”  He persevered
till he ____ his purpose.  He always ____ more than was expected of him.

Dress, clothes, clothing, garments, apparel, raiment, habiliments, vestments, attire, garb, habit, costume, uniform.

Sentences:  The spy concealed his identity by wearing the ____ of a
monk.  The soldiers wore blue ____.  She was an excellent horsewoman, and
rode in a fashionable ____.  “No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an
old ____.”  Millions of men left farms and factories and shops to don the
____ of war.  The invitation specified that the men should wear evening
____.  The store specialized in women’s wearing ____.  A person should wear
warm ____ in winter.  The king appeared in his royal ____.  He always wore
expensive ____.  The bishop entered in his clerical ____.  “The ____ oft
proclaims the man.”  The theatrical ____ was full of spangles.  One’s ____
should never be conspicuous.

Drink, imbibe, sip, sup, swallow, quaff, tipple, tope, guzzle, swig.

Sentences:  “She who, as they voyaged, ____ With Tristram that
spiced magic draught.”  Plants ____ moisture through their roots.  “A little
learning is a dang’rous thing; ____ deep, or taste not the Pierian
spring.”  He ____ down the liquor in a couple of huge draughts.  On the fan
was a picture of Japanese maidens daintily ____ tea. “____ to me only with
thine eyes.”  His red nose betrayed the fact that he constantly ____.

Elicit, extract, exact, extort.

Sentences:  They ____ payment to the last cent.  The police ____ a
confession from the prisoner by intimidating him.  This terrible suffering
____ our sympathy.  His resolve to begin again after his failure ____ their
admiration.  “But lend it rather to thine enemy; Who if he break, thou
mayst with better face ____ the penalty.”  They ____ all the information
they could by questioning the child.

Embarrass, disconcert, discompose, discomfit, confuse, confound, agitate, abash, mortify, chagrin, humiliate.

Sentences:  The annoying little raids ____ the enemy.  Such
conclusive proof of his lies completely ____ him.  His sudden proposal ____
her.  He stood ____ in the presence of the king.  The traveler was ____ by
the many turns in the road.  She was ____ by the delay in having dinner
ready.  She was ____ by her husband’s ill manners.  The possibility that her
daughter might have been in the accident ____ her.  I was ____ at being so
cleverly outwitted.

Excuse, pardon, forgive, condone.

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