Sentences:  By the light of the ____ he saw a ____ fowl by the
fireside and a ____ in the cupboard.  The ____ of his countenance was due
to the ____ he was undergoing. ____ his face into a very knowing look, he
____ that a man with a ____ in his buttonhole and ____ shell glasses on
his nose had leered at the girls as he passed.

Tract, tra(i) (draw):  (1) tract, tractor, intractable, abstracted, retract, protract, detract, distract, attractive, contractor, trace, trail, train, trait, portray, retreat; (2) traction, tractate, distraught, extraction, subtraction.

Sentences:  In an ____ manner he drove the ____ across a large ____
of ground.  He ____ his gaze at the ____ girl.  The ____ was now willing to
____ his statement that in the house as it stood there was no ____ of
departure from the specifications.  Down the weary ____ of the pioneer
dashes the palatial modern ____.  To be ____ was one of his ____.  The
artist ____ her as in a ____ state.  The ____ of his forces ____ but little
from his fame.

Vene, vent (come):  (1) convene, convenient, avenue, revenue, prevent, event, inventor, adventure, convention, circumvent; (2) venire, venue, parvenu, advent, adventitious, convent, preventive, eventuate, intervention.

Sentences:  The legislature ____ in order to pass a measure
regarding the public ____.  At the ____ the wily old politician was able to
____ his enemies.  The ____ saw no means of ____ this infringement of his
patent right.  In that ____ we are likely to have an ____.  Through the
long, shaded ____ they strolled together.

Vert, vers(e) (turn):  (1) avert, divert, convert, invert, pervert, advertize, inadvertent, verse, aversion, adverse, adversity, adversary, version, anniversary, versatile, divers, diversity, conversation, perverse, universe, university, traverse, subversive, divorce; (2) vertebra, vertigo, controvert, revert, averse, versus, versification, animadversion, vice versa, controversy, tergiversation, obverse, transverse, reversion, vortex.

Sentences:  Though he carried a large ____ of goods, he was ____ to
____ them.  He had ____ forgotten that it was his wedding ____.  The ____
was on ____ subjects.  They ____ a broad area where nothing had been done
to ____ the danger that threatened them.  With ____ stubbornness he held to
his ____ of the story.  He held that the reading of ____ is ____ of
masculine qualities.  His professors at the ____ soon ____ him to new
social and economic theories.  Her husband was such a ____ creature that
she resolved to secure a ____.  Americans are the most ____ people in the
____.  The anecdote ____ his ____ himself.  Her answer not only was ____,
it revealed her ____.  He had undergone grave ____ in his time.

Vince, vict (conquer):  (1 and 2 combined) evince, convince, province, invincible, evict, convict, conviction, victorious.

Sentences:  He was ____ that the campaign against the rebels in
the ____ could not be ____.  He ____ a lively interest in my theory that
the fugitive could not be ____.  He felt an ____ repugnance to ____ the
man, and this in spite of his ____ that the man was guilty.

Voc, voke (call, voice):  (1) vocal, vocation, advocate, irrevocable, vociferous, provoke, revoke, evoke, convoke; (2) vocable, vocabulary, avocation, equivocal, invoke, avouch, vouchsafe.