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:   ____ always, he indulged at this time in a great deal
of ____.  Though it was mere ____, yet there was something ____ about it. 
Amid all this ____ he managed to rid himself of a good deal of ____
regarding Standish.  Hamlet’s ____ on suicide is a famous passage.

(1) Allude, elude, delude, ludicrous, illusory, collusion; (2) prelude, postlude, interlude.

Sentences:  Such evidence is ____, and belief in it is ____. 
He ____ to a possible ____ between them.  The more credulous ones he ____,
and the skeptical he manages to ____.

(1) Metrical, thermometer, barometer, pedometer, diametrically, geometry; (2) millimeter, chronometer, hydrometer, trigonometry, pentameter.

Sentences:  He was careful to consult both the ____ and the ____. 
He always wore a ____ on these trips.  The two were ____ opposed to each
other.  The poet has great ____ skill.  ____ is an exact science.

(1) Monotone, monotonous, monoplane, monopoly, monocle, monarchy, monogram, monomania; (2) monosyllable, monochrome, monogamy, monorail, monograph, monolith, monody, monologue, monad, monastery, monk.

Sentences:  His eye held a ____, his gold ring bore a ____ seal,
and his voice was a stilted ____.  One thing I hate about a ____ is the
____ reference to everything as his majesty’s.  He had a ____ of the trade
in his town.  He is suffering, not from madness, but from ____.

(1) Mortal, immortality, mortify, postmortem, mortgage, morgue; (2) mortmain, moribund, A la mort.

Sentences:  After a hasty ____ examination, the body was taken to
the ____.  She was ____ at this reminder of the ____ on her father’s
property.  The ____ shall put on ____.

(1 and 2 combined) Mutual, mutation, permutation, commute, transmute, immutable, moult.

Sentences:  As he ____ that morning he reflected upon the ____ and
combinations of fortune.  We suffer the ____ of this worldly life, but
ourselves are not ____.  God’s love is ____, and our love for each other
should be ____.  Birds when they ____ are weakened in body and depressed in
spirit.

(1) Native, prenatal, innate, nature, unnatural, naturalize, nation, pregnant, puny; (2) denatured, nativity, cognate, agnate, nascent, renascence, nee.

Sentences:  It was some ____ influence, he thought, that gave him
his ____ physique.  It was a ____ reply, but its heartlessness was ____. 
He was not ____ to the country, but ____.  ____ in his ____ was the love
of his own ____.

(1) Note, notion, notable, notice, notorious, cognizant, incognito, recognize, noble, ignoble, ennoble, ignore, ignorance, ignoramus, reconnoiter, quaint, acquaintance; (2) notary, notation, connotation, cognition, prognosticate, reconnaissance, connoisseur.

Sentences:  In complete ____ of the enemy’s position, he decided
that he would ____ it. ____ himself, he was ____ of what was going on
about him.  You must ____ the conduct of such an ____.  His ____ with this
____ gentleman ____ him.  He ____ but would not ____ this ____ fellow. 
The ____ is a ____ one.  He could but ____ how ____ his brother had become.

(1) Panacea, panoply, panorama, pantomime, pan-American, pandemonium; (2) pantheist, pantheon.

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