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 eminent ____ said the matter did not lie within
his ____.  Though ____ in most matters, he admitted to ____ in this. 
The ____ said he would comment in an unofficial rather than a ____ way. 
She could not ____ her suspicions.  He was not only ____ himself, but
devoted to ____.

Junct (join):  (1) junction, juncture, injunction, disjunctive, conjugal, adjust; (2) adjunct, conjunction, subjunctive, conjugate.

Sentences:  A ____ force had entered their ____ relationships. 
At this ____ he gave the ____ that disturbances should cease.  The tramp
halted at the ____ to eat his lunch and ____ his knapsack.

Jure (swear):  (1 and 2 combined) juror, jury, abjure, adjure, conjurer, perjury.

Sentences:  They ____ their loyalty.  He ____ them to remember their
duty as ____.  The ____ held the ____ guilty of ____.

Leg, lig, lect (read, choose, pick up):  (1) elegant, illegible, college, negligent, diligent, eligible, elect, select, intellect, recollect, neglect, lecturer, collection, coil, cull; (2) legend, legion, legacy, legate, delegate, sacrilegious, dialect, lectern, colleague, lexicon.

Sentences:  In ____ he listened to the ____ and took an occasional
note in an ____ hand.  She ____ an ____ costume.  They ____ the only man
who was ____.  He did not ____ to take up the ____.  He was ____ rather
than ____.  Her mind was too ____ to ____ all the circumstances.

Lig (bind):  (1 and 2 combined) ligament, ligature, obligation, ally, alliance, allegiance, league, lien, liable, liaison, alloy.

Sentences:  It was a pleasure that knew no ____.  To belong to
the ____ carries ____.  In studying anatomy you learn all about ____ and
____.  The two nations were in ____.  We may be sure of their ____.  We will
take a ____ upon your property.  As a ____ officer he was ____ for the
equipment which our ____ reported lost.

Luc, lum, lus (light):  (1) lucid, translucent, luminous, illuminate, luminary, luster, illustrate, illustrious; (2) lucent, Lucifer, lucubration, elucidate, pellucid, relume, limn.

Sentences:  The ____ author spoke very ____.  He gave us a ____
explanation of a very abstruse subject.  The material was ____ even to the
rays of the feeblest of the heavenly ____.  He ____ his theory by the
following anecdote.  This deed added ____ to his fame.

Mand (order):  (1 and 2 combined) mandate, mandamus, mandatory, demand, remand, countermand, commandment.

Sentences:  The superior court issued a writ of ____.  The case
was ____ to the lower court.  His instructions were not discretionary,
but ____.  At your ____ the ____ has been issued.  The ____ promptly
____ the orders of the offending officer.

Mit, mis, mise (send):  (1) permit, submit, commit, remit, transmit, mission, missile, missionary, remiss, omission, commission, admission, dismissal, promise, surmise, compromise, mass, message; (2) emit, intermittent, missive, commissary, emissary, manumission, inadmissible, premise, demise.

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