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ACCEPT, EXCEPT.
1. Let us ---- the terms which they propose.
2. In saying that the Alexandrians have a bad character, I ---- a few persons.
3. Why did you not ---- the gift?
4. He was ----ed from the general condemnation.
5. It gives me pleasure to ---- your invitation.
ADVERTISE, ADVISE.
6. The procession was ----d to start at half-past two o'clock.
7. Under these circ.u.mstances we ---- total abstinence.
8. The merchants were ----d of the risk.
9. When I return, I shall ---- you.
AFFECT, EFFECT.
10. She was greatly ----ed by the news.
11. When a man is hardened in crime, no fear can ---- him.
12. They sailed away without ----ing their purpose.
13. What he planned, he ----ed.
14. Bodily exercise indirectly ----s all the organs of the body.
15. The loud crash ----ed my hearing for a while.
16. Severe cold will ---- peach-trees.
17. The invention of the telephone was not ----ed without great labor.
ALLEVIATE, RELIEVE.
18. Some fruits are excellent to ---- thirst.
19. He gave me an opiate to ---- my pain.
20. His charity went far to ---- the wants of the poor.
21. My cares were ----ed by his friendship.
ALLOW, ADMIT, THINK.
22. He ----(ed) it would rain to-day.
23. He would not ---- her to come.
24. I ---- she will come.
25. He at last ----s that I was right.
ALLUDE TO, REFER TO, MENTION.
26. A Latin inscription ----ing (to) the name of the road is cut on the rock.
27. The people of the country, ----ing (to) the whiteness of its foam, call the cascade "Sour-milk Falls."
28. I proceed to another affection of our nature which bears strong testimony to our being born for religion. I ---- (to) the emotion which leads us to revere what is higher than we.
29. He ----s (to) enterprises which he cannot reveal but with the hazard of his life.
ARGUE, AUGUR.
30. It ----s ill for an army when there are dissensions at headquarters.
31. Not to know me ----s yourself unknown.
32. E'en though vanquished he could ---- still.
COMPARE TO, COMPARE WITH, CONTRAST.
33. The generosity of one person is most strongly felt when ----d to (with) the meanness of another.
34. In Luke xv. the sinner is ----d to (with) a sheep.
35. Solon ----d the people to (with) the sea, and orators to (with) the winds; because the sea would be quiet if the winds did not trouble it.
36. It appears no unjust simile to ---- the affairs of this great continent to (with) the mechanism of a clock.
37. Goethe ----s translators to (with) carriers who convey good wine to market, though it gets unaccountably watered by the way.
38. To ---- the goodness of G.o.d to (with) our rebellion will tend to make us humble and thankful.
39. He who ----s his own condition to (with) that of others will see that he has many reasons to consider himself fortunate.
40. The treatment of the Indians by Penn may be ----d to (with) the treatment of them by other colonists.
41. Burke ----s the parks of a city to (with) the lungs of the body.
CONSTRUE, CONSTRUCT.
42. We might ---- his words in a bad sense.
43. How is this pa.s.sage in Virgil to be ----d?
44. That sentence is obscure; it is not well ----ed.
CONVINCE, CONVICT.
45. The jury, having been ----d of the prisoner's guilt, ----d him.
46. I hope you may succeed in ----ing him of his error.
DETECT, DISCRIMINATE.
47. I cannot ---- the error in the account.
48. The chemist ----d the presence of a.r.s.enic in the coffee.
DISCOVER, DISCLOSE.
49. Events have ----d the designs of the government.
50. We often ---- our mistakes when it is too late.
DOMINATE, DOMINEER.
51. Three powers there are that ---- the world: Fraud, Force, and Right.
52. No true gentleman ----s his servants.
DRIVE, RIDE.
53. While Mrs. A. and her children were ----ing in the park the horses ran away and overturned the carriage.
54. Will you go ----ing with me in my new pony-cart.
55. While ----ing in the park Mr. C. was thrown from his horse.
ELICIT, ELIMINATE.
56. Discussion is a good way to ---- truth.
57. His bearing under the trying circ.u.mstances ----d the approval of all high-minded men.
58. It is the duty of a statesman to try to ---- the worst elements of society and to retain the best.
59. Let us try to ---- the true facts from this ma.s.s of evidence.
ESTIMATE, ESTEEM.
60. I ---- him for his own sake.
61. Men do not ---- highly the virtues of their enemies.
62. The sh.e.l.l of the hawksbill turtle is much ----d for making combs.
63. At what amount do you ---- the cost of the journey.
EXPOSE, EXPOUND.
64. Daniel Webster ----d the Const.i.tution of the United States.
65. Daniel Webster ----d the villany of the Knapps.
66. The text was well ----d in the sermon.
