Sentences:  Arrayed in all the ____ of savages, they acted the scene
out in ____.  From this point the ____ of the country-side unrolled itself
before him.  It is no ____ for human ills; any supposition that it is will
lead to ____.  It is a ____ movement.

(1) Peter, petrify, petrol, stormy petrel, petroleum, saltpeter, pier; (2) petrology, parsley, samphire.

Sentences:  As he walked along the ____, he observed the flight of
the ____.  The English name for gasoline is ____.  ____ is used in the
manufacture of gunpowder.  He was almost ____ at hearing of this enormous
stock of ____.  The crowing of the cock caused ____ to weep bitterly.

(1 and 2 combined) Petty, petite, petit jury, petit larceny, petticoat, pettifogger.

Sentences:  Charged with ____, he was tried by the ____.  The
contemptible ____ hid behind the ____ of his wife.  She was a winsome
maiden, dainty and ____.  It is a ____ fault.

(1 and 2 combined) Philosophy, philanthropy, Philadelphia, bibliophile, Anglophile.

Sentences:  His ____ was generous, but his ____ was not profound. 
That queer old ____ hangs to the library like a caterpillar.  It was the
love of humankind that caused Penn to name the city ____.  Most Americans
are not ____.

(1 and 2 combined) Cosmopolitan, metropolitan, politics, policy, police.

Sentences:  Those who engage in ____ lack, as a rule, a ____
outlook.  It is merely ____ intolerance of towns and villages.  The ____ of
the mayor was to increase the ____ force.

(1 and 2 combined) Potential, potency, potentate, impotent, omnipotent, plenipotentiary.

Sentences:  So far from being ____, we possess a ____ difficult to
estimate.  The ____ sent an ambassador ____.  A ____ solution of the problem
is this. ____ God.

(1) Impute, compute, dispute, ill repute, reputation, disreputable; (2) putative, indisputable.

Sentences:  She could not ____ the cost.  There was some ____ as to
the cause of his ____.  Let them ____ to me what motives they will.  Though
somewhat ____, he was extremely
solicitous about his ____.

(1) Abrogate, arrogate, interrogate, arrogant, derogatory, prerogative; (2) surrogate, rogation, prorogue.

Sentences:  In an ____ manner he ____ these ____ to himself.  To ____
authority is to give opportunity for remarks ____ to one’s reputation.  He
skilfully ____ the witness.

(1) Salmon, sally, assail, assault, insult, consult, result, exultation, desultory; (2) salient, salacious, resilient.

Sentences:  After the ____ the firing was ____.  The defenders ____
out and ____ us, but the ____ of this effort only added to our ____.  We
sat there watching the ____ leap over the waterfall and ____ about our
arrangements for taking them.  To accept the remark as an ____ is to
acknowledge the speaker as an equal.

(1) Science, conscience, unconscious, prescience, omniscience, nice; (2) sciolist, adscititious, plebiscite.