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 man ____ to drugs was ____ for ____ treatment of his
wife, and the ____ were that the ____ would be against him.  He said, on
the contrary, that his character would be ____.  The attorney for the
defense ____ that the judge would rule that the matter did not lie within
his ____.  This would leave the prosecution in a ____.  But the prosecution
issued a strong ____ of this theory, and said ____ were favorable for
proving the man guilty.

Duce, duct (lead):  (1) induce, reduce, traduce, seduce, introduce, reproduce, education, deduct, product, production, reduction, conduct, conductor, abduct, subdue; (2) educe, adduce, superinduce, conducive, ducat, duct, ductile, induction, aqueduct, viaduct, conduit, duke, duchy.

Sentences:  We ____ the company to ____ the fare.  They ____ ten
cents from the wages of each man, an average ____ of four per cent. 
They ____ us when they say we have wilfully lessened ____.  The highwaymen
____ the ____.  If you have an ____, you can ____ an idea in other words.

Error (wander):  (1) error, erroneous, erratic, errand; (2) errata, knight errant, arrant knave, aberration.

Sentences:  That ____ fellow came on a special ____ to tell us we
had made an ____.  And his statement was ____ at that!

Fact, fic(e), fy, fect, feat, feit (make, do):  (1) fact, factory, faction, manufacture, satisfaction, suffice, sacrifice, office, difficult, pacific, terrific, significant, fortification, magnificent, artificial, beneficial, verify, simplify, stupefy, certify, dignify, glorify, falsify, beautify, justify, infect, perfect, effect, affection, defective, feat, defeat, feature, feasible, forfeit, surfeit, counterfeit, affair, fashion; (2) factor, factotum, malefaction, benefaction, putrefaction, facile, facsimile, faculty, certificate, edifice, efficacy, prolific, deficient, proficient, artifice, artificer, beneficiary, versification, unification, exemplification, deify, petrify, rectify, amplify, fructify, liquefy, disaffect, refection, comfit, pontiff, ipso facto, de facto, ex post facto, au fait, fait accompli.

Sentences:  The opposing ____ by incredible ____ had found
it ____ to take over the ____ of the goods.  By this ____ it ____ what
goodwill the owner of the ____ had for it, but it won the ____ of the
public.  The owner, though seemingly ____ at first, soon ____ a scheme to
make the success of the enterprise more ____.  By an ____ lowering of the
price of his own goods and by ____ that those of his rivals were ____,
he hoped to ____ the public mind with unjust suspicions.  But all this did
not ____.  In truth the ____ of it was the hastening of his own ____ and a
____ heightening of the public ____ toward his rivals.  His directors,
seeing that his policy had failed to ____ itself, met in his ____ and
urged him to take a more ____ attitude.

Fer (bear, carry):  (1) transfer, prefer, proffer, suffer, confer, offer, referee, deference, inference, indifferent, ferry, fertile; (2) referendum, Lucifer, circumference, vociferate, auriferous, coniferous, pestiferous.

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