Sentences:  The veterans felt great ____ while action regarding
their ____ was ____.  We shall ____ you.  An arm of it stood in a
position ____ to the ____ mass.  He knew that fate was ____, and he watched
the ____ swing back and forth slowly.  He gave a ____ argument in favor of
the ____ of the money.  There is ____, that’s for thoughts.  Let us ____ the
question whether the ____ is needful.  She was a woman of rare social ____. 
Penny-wise, ____ foolish.

Pet (seek):  (1 and 2 combined) petition, petulant, impetus, impetuous, perpetuate, repeat, compete, competent, appetite, centripetal.

Sentences:  A great ____ force keeps the planets circling about
the sun.  The complaints of a ____ woman led him to ____ the prize.  The
sexual ____ leads men to ____ the race.  The ____ was pronounced upon ____
authority to be ill drawn up.  With ____ wrath he ____ the assertion.  The
____ became noticeably weaker.

Ply, plic, plicate (fold):  (1) ply, reply, imply, plight, suppliant, explicit, implicit, implicate, supplicate, duplicate, duplicity, complicate, complicity, accomplice, application, plait, display, plot, employee, exploit, simple, supple; (2) pliant, pliable, replica, explication, inexplicable, multiplication, deploy, triple, quadruple, plexus, duplex.

Sentences:  We ____ the thief’s ____ with questions.  He ____ that
others were ____ with him.  The king ____ to the ____ that such ____ must
never be ____ in the realm thereafter.  It would be a ____ matter to ____
the order.  The manager had ____ confidence in his ____.  She admired his
courage in this ____, perceived his ____ in the crime, and deplored his
participation in the ____.  They ____ him for an ____ promise that mercy
would be shown.  She was in a ____, for she had not had time to arrange her
hair in its usual broad ____.  He was ____ of body.  The ____ was refused.

Pose, pone (place):  (1) expose, compose, purpose, posture, position, composure, impostor, postpone, post office, positive, deposit, disposition, imposition, deponent, opponent, exponent, component; (2) depose, impost, composite, apposite, repository, preposition, interposition, juxtaposition, decomposition.

Sentences:  The ____ said he would ____ the manner in which the
cashier had made away with the ____.  The true ____ of the ____ was now
known, yet he retained his ____.  For you to make yourself an ____ of these
wild theories is an ____ on your friends.  The closing hour at the ____ is
____ thirty minutes on account of the rush of Christmas mail.  He
was ____ that his ____ had ____ the letter.  One of the ____ elements in
his ____ was gloom.

Prise, prehend (seize):  (1) prize, apprise, surprise, comprise, enterprise, imprison, comprehend, apprehension; (a) reprisal, misprision, reprehend, prehensile, apprentice, impregnable, reprieve.

Sentences:  He had no ____ as to what the ____ would ____. 
His ____ was so great that he could scarcely ____ the fact that the ____
was his.  The judge ____ them of the likelihood that they would be ____.

Prob (prove):  (1 and 2 combined) probe, probation, probate, probity, approbation, reprobate, improbable.