Sentences:  He gave his life to literary ____.  My brother found ____
as a tutor in a rich family.  Colleges are trying to direct their students
into the ____ they are best fitted for.  Andrew Johnson was a tailor by
____.  Medicine is a very ancient ____.  The shoemaker was very skilled at
his ____.  After losing his hand he could no longer engage in his ____ as
telegrapher.  The grocer carries on only a wholesale ____.  He considered
his ____ to the ministry a sacred duty.  “Sir, ’tis my ____ to be plain.” 
Do you find collecting coins a pleasant ____?

Pacify, appease, placate, propitiate, conciliate, mollify.

Sentences:  We ____ our hunger when we reached the inn.  In olden
times men tried to ____ the offended gods by offering human sacrifices. 
They ____ the angry man by promising to hear his grievances immediately. 
The premier thought he could ____ this particular faction by offering its
leader a seat in the cabinet.  “Chiron ____ his cruel mind With art, and
taught his warlike hands to wind The silver strings of his melodious
lyre.”  A friendly word will usually ____ one’s enemies.

Part, piece, portion, section, subdivision, fraction, instalment element, component, constituent, ingredient, share, lot, allotment.

Sentences:  One ____ in his success was his courage.  She was
studying the ____ of the pie; he the chances of getting another ____.  Is
it ____ and ____ alike?  “I live not in myself, but I become ____ of that
around me.”  “Act well your ____; there all the honor lies.”  He owned a[n]
____ of land near the city limits; a speculator bought a[n] ____ of this
and divided it into city lots.  “I am a[n] ____ of all that I have met.” 
The purchaser, having only a[n] ____ of this sum in ready money, offered
to pay in ____.

Pay, hire, salary, wages, fee, stipend, honorarium.

Sentences:  Give the manager his ____, the workmen their ____.  “The
laborer is worthy of his ____.”  He received his weekly ____ from the
parsimonious old man.  The ____ for enrolment is ten dollars.  “This is ____
and ____, not revenge.”

Polite, civil, obliging, courteous, courtly, urbane, affable, complaisant, gracious.

Sentences:  He was ____ enough, but not definitely ____.  “So ____
that he ne’er ____.”  Though he had never lived in a city, much less in the
circle of royalty, his manners were ____, even ____.  Your desire to please
is shown in your ____ greeting.  “Damn with faint praise, assent with ____
leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.”

Quarrel, altercation, disagreement, contention, controversy, breach, rupture, dispute, dissension, bickering, wrangle, broil, squabble, row, rumpus, ruction, spat, tiff, fuss, jar, feud.