Sentences: The people protested the expenditure of money for a
Congressional ____ to investigate the Philippine Islands.  Each Sunday
there is a[n] ____ at half fare between the two cities.  He conducted a
party on a summer ____ through Europe.  Last summer I took a[n] ____ to the
Yellowstone National Park.  It was a long ____ from Philadelphia to Boston
by stage coach.  They hurriedly arranged for a[n] ____ to the woods. 
Magellan was the first man to make a[n] ____ around the globe.  The
scientific body organized a[n] ____ to explore the polar regions. 
Thousands of Mohammedans make an annual ____ to Mecca.

Kind, compassionate, merciful, lenient, benignant, benign, clement, benevolent, charitable, gracious, humane, sympathetic. (With this group compare the Cruel group, above.)

Sentences:  The weather was ____.  She was as ____ as a queen.  “Thou
dost wear The Godhead’s most ____ grace.”  Cowper was too ____ to tread
upon a worm needlessly.  A judge in sentencing a convicted man may be as
____ as circumstances and the law allow. ____ neutrality.  “Blessed are the
____.”  “She was so ____ and so pitous She wolde wepe if that she sawe a
mous Caught in a trappe.” “____ hearts are more than coronets.”

Love, affection, attachment, fondness, infatuation, devotion, predilection, liking.

Sentences:  Between the two young people had grown a[n] ____ which
now ripened into ____.  “The course of true ____ never did run smooth.”  The
mad ____ of Mark Antony for Cleopatra was the cause of his downfall.  She
had only a[n] ____ for him, but he an unqualified ____ for her.  “Man’s
____ is of his life a thing apart; ’Tis woman’s whole existence.”  He shows
a marked ____ for the companionship of women.  My ____ for the tart was
enhanced by my ____ for the girl who baked it.  That boy shows a[n] ____
for horses, and a positive ____ for dogs.

Margin, edge, limit, border, boundary, bound, bourn, brim, rim, brink, verge, skirt, confine.

Sentences:  He had reached the ____ of endurance.  In writing, leave
a wide ____ on the left side of the page.  “Borrowing dulls the ____ of
husbandry.”  “The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his ____.”  Within
the ____ of reason.  He stood on the ____ of ruin.  The rock at the ____ of
the canon is called the ____ rock.  I was on the ____ of doing a very
indiscreet thing.  “The undiscover’d country from whose ____ No traveler
returns.”  Fill your glasses to the ____.

Matrimonial, conjugal, connubial, nuptial, marital.

Sentences:  “However old a ____ union, it still garners some
sweetness.”  A court of ____ relations.  “Contented toil, and hospitable
care, And kind ____ tenderness are there.”  “To the ____ bower I led her,
blushing like the morn.”  She finally decided that he had no ____
intentions.  “And hears the unexpressive ____ song In the lest kingdoms
meek of joy and love.”

Occupation, employment, calling, pursuit, vocation, avocation, profession, business, trade, craft.