Sentences:  For nearly a ____ this family has been living on a small
____ of its income.  I wouldn’t give a ____ for ____ honors; I want my
reward now.

(1) Chronic, chronological, chronicle; (2) chronometer, synchronize, anachronism.

Sentences:  It is a ____ record of changing activities and ____
ills.  This page is a ____ of athletic news.

(1) Corps, corpse, corporal, corpulent, corporation, incorporate; (2) corpus, habeas corpus, corporeal, corpuscle, Corpus Christi.

Sentences:  The ____ gentleman said he did not believe in ____
punishment.  The hospital ____ carried the ____ into the office of a great
____.  He resolved to ____ this idea into the reforms he was introducing.

(1 and 2 combined) Creed, credulous, credential, credit, accredit, discredit, incredible.

Sentences:  He was not so ____ as to suppose that his ____ would be
accepted and his statements ____ without some investigation.  It is to his
____ that he refused to be bound by his former religious ____.  That such
____ has been heaped upon him is ____.

(1) Crescent, increase, decrease, concrete, recruit, accrue, crew; (2) crescendo, excrescence, accretion, increment.

Sentences:  The ____ now had ____ evidence that military life was
not altogether pleasant.  In the olden days on the sea deaths from scurvy
might bring about a dangerous ____ in the size of the ____.  His courage
____ with the profits that ____ to him.  The ____ moon rode in the sky.

(1) Cure, secure, procure, sinecure, curious, inaccurate; (2) curate, curator.

Sentences:  Occupying the position for a while will ____ of the
notion that it is a ____.  He was ____ to know so a bookkeeper had managed
to ____ so high a salary.  He ____ the equipment required.

(1 and 2 combined) Indignity, indignation, undignified, condign, deign, dainty.

Sentences:  We must not be too ____ about visiting ____ punishment
upon those responsible for this ____.  He did not ____ to express his ____. 
It was an ____ act.

(1) Durable, endure, during, duration, obdurate; (2) durance, duress, indurate, perdurable.

Sentences:   ____ the whole interview she remained  ____.  It is a
____ cloth; it will ____ all sorts of weather.  The session was one of
prolonged ____.

(1) Finite, infinite, define, definite, confine, final, in fine, unfinished; (2) definitive, infinitesimal.

Sentences:  One cannot ____ the ____.  He ____ himself to purely ____
topics.  ____ it was a ____ offer and the ____ one he expected to make. 
The bridge is still ____.

(1) Flexibility, inflexible, deflect, inflection, reflection, reflex; (2) circumflex, genuflection.

Sentences:  The ____ influence of this act was great.  I did not like
the ____ of his voice.  After some ____ he decided to remain ____.  He was
not to be ____ from his purpose.  I could but admire the ____ of her tones.

(1) Fluent, affluent, influence, influenza, superfluous, fluid, influx, flush (rush of water), fluctuate; (2) confluent, mellifluous, flux, reflux, effluvium, flume.