ARGUMENT, PLEA.
18.  Every whisper in the court-room was hushed as Mr. N. rose before the
    jury and began his—­in behalf of the prisoner.

19.  The ——­ of Smith, when arraigned before the court, was that he had
    acted in self-defence.

20.  The only ——­ available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

BALANCE, REMAINDER, REST. 21.  The ——­ of the hour is spent in the study of some poem. 22.  I have a ——­ at my banker’s. 23.  The ——­ of the boys went home. 24.  For the ——­ of the week we stayed at home. 25.  The account shows a ——­ of $12.46. 26.  Give John and Horace four of the six apples; you may have the ——. 27.  Give the ——­ of our dinner to Tommy, our cat.

CENTRE, MIDDLE. 28.  There is a crack running down the ——­ of the wall. 29.  A table stood in the ——­ of the room. 30.  A path runs through the ——­ of the park. 31.  In the ——­ of the garden was a fountain. 32.  He parts his hair in the ——. 33.  The arrow struck the ——­ of the target.

CHARACTER, REPUTATION. 34.  This man has an excellent ——­ for honesty. 35.  Every one admires the ——­ of Washington. 36.  Mr. Arnold won great ——­ as a critic. 37.  Oh, I have lost my ——. 38.  The outlaws of Yorkshire were men of loose ——. 39.  A distinguished general may lose his ——­ through a single blunder. 40. ——­ is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

COMPLEMENT, COMPLIMENT. 41.  Present my ——­s to your father. 42.  The ship has its ——­ of stores. 43.  The ——­ of an angle is the difference between the angle and a right
    angle.
44.  “True friendship loathes such oily ——.” 45.  In the sentence, “He is ill,” “ill” is the ——­ of the verb “is.” 46.  “This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink
    of ——.”

CONSCIENCE, CONSCIOUSNESS. 47.  The ——­ of the purity of his motives consoled him for his
    unpopularity.
48.  My ——­ hath a thousand several tongues. 49.  I felt a shock, I saw the car topple over, and then I lost ——.

COUNCIL, COUNSEL.
50.  “No man will take ——­, but every man will take money; therefore money
    is better than ——.”—­Swift.
51.  The members of the cabinet form a sort of secret ——­ of the President.
52.  Webster was one of the ——­ in the trial of the Knapps for the murder
    of Captain White.

CUSTOM, HABIT. 53.  De Quincey acquired the ——­ of using opium from first using it to
    relieve neuralgic pains.
54.  Dancing round a May-pole is a ——­ many hundreds of years old. 55.  As his ——­ was, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath. 56.  Man is a bundle of ——­s. 57.  Those national ——­s are best which lead to good ——­s among the
    people.
58.  A loose life brings a man into ——­s of dissipation. 59.  It was the ——­ of Scotch Highlanders to go bareheaded. 60.  It is a good ——­ to rise early, because this will soon become a ——.