Sentences:  The Israelites ____ in Egypt.  He ____ to chat with us,
but could not ____ overnight.  I ____ in a wretched tavern.  “I can ____, I
can ____ but a night.”  “I did love the Moor to ____ with him.”  “He that
shall come will come, and will not ____.”  “I will ____ in the house of the
Lord forever.”  “If ye ____ in me, and my words ____ in you, ye shall ask
what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”  “I would rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to ____ in the tents of
wickedness.”  The guests ____ in the cheerful drawing-room.

Steal, abstract, pilfer, filch, purloin, peculate, swindle, plagiarize, poach. (With this group, which excludes the idea of violence, compare the Robber group, above.)

Sentences: I am of raid that our son ____ the purse from the
gentleman.  No one knows how long the cashier has been ____ the funds of
the bank.  To take our money on such unsound security is to ____ us.  He
slyly ____ a handkerchief or two.  This paragraph is clearly ____.  “Thou
shalt not ____.”  Many government employees seem to think that to ____ is
their privilege and prerogative.  The crown jewels have been ____, She ____
a number of petty articles.  A well-known detective story by Poe is called
The ___ Letter._ “Who ____ my purse ____ trash....  But he that ____
from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me
poor indeed.”  “A cut-purse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf
the precious diadem ____, And put it in his pocket!”

Strike, hit, smite, thump, beat, cuff, buffet, knock, whack, belabor, pommel, pound, cudgel, slap, rap, tap, box.

Sentences:  ____ him into the middle of next week.  He ____ and ____
the poor beast unmercifully.  “As of some one gently ____, ____ at my
chamber door.”  “Unto him that ____ thee on the one cheek offer also the
other.”  “Bid them come forth and hear me, Or at their chamber door I’ll
____ the drum Till it cry sleep to death.”  “One whom I will ____ into
clamorous whining.” “____ for your altars and your fires!” By means of
heavy stones the squaws ____ the corn into meal.

Sullen, surly, sulky, crabbed, cross, gruff, grum, glum, morose, dour, crusty, cynical, misanthropic, saturnine, splenetic.

Sentences:  “Between us and our hame [home], Where sits our ____,
____ dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to
keep it warm.”  A ____ old bachelor.  A ____ Scotchman.  He hated all men; he
was truly ____.  He sat ____ and silent all day; by nightfall he was truly
____.

Talk, chat, chatter, prate, prattle, babble, gabble, jabber, tattle, twaddle, blab, gossip, palaver, parley, converse, mumble, mutter, stammer, stutter. (With this group compare the Say and Speak groups, above.)

Sentences:  It was a queer assembly, and from it arose a queer
medley of sounds:  the baby was ____, the old crone ____, the gossip ____,
the embarrassed young man ____, the child ____ the tale-bearer ____, the
hostess ____ with the most distinguished guest, and the trickster ____
with his intended victim.  “Blest with each talent and each art to please,
And born to write, ____, and live with ease.”  “I wonder that you will
still be ____ Signor Benedick; nobody marks you.”

Tear, rend, rip, lacerate, mangle.