Sentences:   The explorers, having eaten all the provisions they had
carried with them, hurried back to their ____.  The battering-ram at last
made a[n] ____ in the walls.  The ____ in the log had been caused by the
intense heat.  He tore off the check along the line of the ____.  The ____
in the earth gradually deepened and narrowed into a[n] ____.  Pyramus and
Thisbe made love to each other through a[n] ____ in a wall.  “Once more
unto the ____, dear friends, once more.”  The ____ in the mountain ranges
of Virginia influenced strategy during the Civil War.  Several ____ in the
toe of one of his shoes apprised me that he had a sore foot.  The supposed
____ in the rock turned out to be a[n] ____ that led into a dark but
spacious ____.  He suffered a[n] ____ of one of his tires near the place
where the laborers were making the ____.  It was a gun of very large ____. 
The ____ in the percolator was made by a flatiron aimed at Mr. Wiggins’
head.

Idle, inert, lazy, indolent, sluggish, slothful.

Sentences:   “He also that is ____ in his work is brother to him
that is a great waster.”  “The ____ singer of an empty day.”  Mighty, ____
forces lie locked up in nature, waiting for man to release them.  He was
a[n] ____, good-for-nothing fellow whose whole business in life was to
keep out of work.  “For Satan finds some mischief still For ____ hands to
do.”  He was too ____ to do his work well.  “The ____ yawning drone.”  His
steps were so ____ one would almost think he was not moving.  “As ____ as a
painted ship Upon a painted ocean.”  “I talk of dreams, Which are the
children of an ____ brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.”

Ignorant, illiterate, uninformed, uneducated, untutored, unlettered, unenlightened.

Sentences:   Without public schools most children would be  ____;
without missionaries many barbarous tribes would remain ____.  Andrew
Jackson was ____ that peace had been declared when he fought the battle of
New Orleans.  Even the wisest men are ____ upon some subjects.  “Lo, the
poor Indian, whose ____ mind Sees God in clouds or hears Him in the wind!”
The mountain whites, though often totally ____, are nevertheless a shrewd
folk.  “Their name, their years, spelt by th’ ____ muse, The place of fame
and elegy supply.”  The percentage of ____ persons is constantly decreasing
in America.

Incline, tip, lean, cant, slant, slope, tilt, list, careen, dip.

Sentences: He ____ the bucket of water over.  The vessel ____ to the
stern and began to sink.  The ship ____ to larboard.  He ____ the top of the
picture away from the wall.  The sprinter ____ forward and touched the tips
of his fingers against the ground.  The gable ____ sharply.  The hill ____
gently.  The cowboy had ____ his hat fetchingly.

Journey, voyage, tour, pilgrimage, trip, jaunt, excursion, junket, outing, expedition.