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 ____ could only ____ why so many of his people had
not attended ____.  The ____ contained a ____ that no one would be held
____.  The request was ____ that he would please ____.  He ____ to his ____
without a protest.  A ____ was appointed to investigate whether the
territory should be granted ____ as a state.  His ____ was such as to ____
him to tarry if he chose.

Move, mote, mob (move):  (1) move, movement, removal, remote, promote, promotion, motion, motive, emotion, commotion, motor, locomotive, mob, mobilize, automobile, moment; (2) immovable, motivate, locomotor ataxia, mobility, immobile, momentum.

Sentences:  The next ____ was his, and his ____ was profound. 
The ____ of the ____ from across the alley enabled the ____ to surge in a
threatening ____ toward the rear of the building.  At this ____ the ____
was great.  The officer whose ____ had seemed so ____ was now enabled
to ____ strong forces for the campaign.  The ____ began a slow ____
forward.  His exact ____ was not known.

Pass, path (suffer):  (1) passion, passive, impassive, impassioned, compassion, pathos, pathetic, impatient, apathy, sympathy, antipathy; (2) passible, impassible, dispassionate, pathology, telepathy, hydropathy, homeopathy, allopathy, osteopathy, neuropathic, pathogenesis.

Sentences:  With an ____ countenance he spoke of the ____ of our
Lord.  The ____ of the story moved her to ____.  He allowed his ____ no
further expression than through that one ____ shrug.  With a ____ smile he
settled back into dull ____.  His plea was ____.

Ped, pod (foot):  (1) pedal, pedestrian, pedestal, expedite, expediency, expedition, quadruped, impediment, biped, tripod, chiropodist, octopus, pew; (2) centiped, pedicle, pedometer, velocipede, sesquipedalian, antipodes, podium, polypod, polyp, Piedmont.

Sentences:  A ____ suggested that we could ____ matters by each
mounting a ____.  The loss of the ____ was a serious ____ to the rider of
the bicycle.  The ____ had me place my foot on an artist’s ____.  The
purpose of this nautical ____ was to capture a live ____.  The ____ of
having so large a ____ for the statue had not occurred to us.  A ____
scarcely recognizable as human occupied my ____.

Pell, pulse (drive):  (1) dispel, compel, propeller, repellent, repulse, repulsive, impulse, compulsory, expulsion, appeal; (2) appellate, interpellate.

Sentences:  After the ____ of the attack the, mists along the
lowlands were ____.  His manner was ____, even ____.  The revolutions of the
____ soon ____ the boatmen to shove farther off.  After his ____ he ____
for a rehearing of his case.  The act was ____, but he felt an ____ toward
it anyhow.

Pend, pense, pond (hang, weigh):  (1) pending, impending, independent, pendulum, perpendicular, expenditure, pension, suspense, expense, pensive, compensate, ponder, ponderous, preponderant, pansy, poise, pound; (2) pendant, stipend, appendix, compendium, propensity, recompense, indispensable, dispensation, dispensary, avoirdupois.

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