Sentences:  When you ____ the basin, an ____ of water fills it
again.  He is an ____ man and a ____ writer.  When I had ____, the doctor
gave me a disgusting ____ to drink.  The wind must have an ____ in making
the waves ____ as they do.  Any more would be ____.

(1) Fort, forte, effort, comfort, fortitude, fortify, fortress; (2) aqua fortis, pianoforte.

Sentences:  The defenders of the ____ held out with great ____. 
Though a ____ or two stood at important passes, the border was not really
____.  His ____ was not public speaking.  It was only by an ____ that he
could ____ them.

(1) Fraction, infraction, fracture, fragility, fragment, suffrage, frail, infringe; (2) diffract, refractory, frangible.

Sentences:  It was in the course of his ____ of the rules that he
suffered the ____ of his collar-bone.  He told the committee of ladies that
he was as fond of ____ as of ____.  It is hardly a proof of ____ that he is
so willing to ____ upon the rights of others.  The ____ scaffolding bent
and swung as he trod it.

(1 and 2 combined) Fugitive, fugue, refuge, subterfuge, centrifugal.

Sentences:  Closing his eyes as if to listen better to the ____ was
a little ____ of his.  The upward movement of the missile was arrested by
the ____ attraction of the earth.  The ____ took ____ in an abandoned barn.

(1) Refund, confound, foundry, confuse, suffuse, profuse, refuse, diffuse; (2) fusion, effusion, transfuse.

Sentences:  With ____ cheeks and ____ utterance he made a ____
apology.  The amount we lost through the defective work at your ____ should
be ____ to us.  Such a blow might ____ but not ____ him.  He ____ the
appointment.

(1) Belligerent, gesture, suggest, congested, digestion, register, jest; (2) gerund, congeries.

Sentences:  As he stopped before the cash ____ he gave a ____ which
showed that his ____ was none too good.  His look was ____, but he lightly
made a ____.  Amid the ____ traffic she stopped to ____ that pink would be
more becoming than lavender.

(1) Relate, translate, legislate, elation, dilated, dilatory; (2) collate, correlate, prelate, oblation, superlative, ablative.

Sentences:  With ____ eyes he ____ the passage for me.  The ____ was
very ____ in agreeing upon the measure to be passed.  He ____ the story
with pride and ____.

(1) Locate, locality, locomotive, dislocate; (2) locale, allocate, collocation.

Sentences:  In trying to ____ the mine as near the fissure as
possible he fell and ____ his hip.  It was only ____ in that entire ____.

(1) Soliloquy, loquacious, loquacity, colloquial, eloquent, obloquy, circumlocution, elocution; (2) magniloquent, grandiloquent, ventriloquism, interlocutor, locutory, allocution. (For related log and Ology words see above under Prying Into a Word’s Relationships.)