Chapter III: Part 3

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The Monarch of Great Britain and Ireland. Italy has many vineyards. The mail-carrier exhorts us to be honest. I'm exhausted by climbing the barrier. Farmers know the advantage of tile drainage. The furrier exhibits an Irish terrier. Vinegar disagrees with my stomach. Parrots of gayest plumage flew through the dense foliage.

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isle
salve
altar
grocer
vacant
honest
foliage
exhaust
anxiety
furrier
phrases
nuisance
terrier
library
stomach
exhibit
riddance
almonds
poultice
medicine
vineyard
squabble
grievance
hindrance

Grocers sell teas, coffees, spices, almonds, but not salves or medicines. The furrier exhibits a lynx. Thieves are dishonest. In the library the owner of the vineyard aired his grievance. The thorny brambles and thick foliage were hindrances. The Scotch terrier knows the mail-carrier's knock. A weak stomach causes anxiety. Poultice my thumb. Buried in a sacred isle.

starry
scarred
giraffe
lacrosse
bargain
chieftain
scaffold
stubborn
vague
league
plague
brogue
gallery
slippery
millinery
machinery

Copy,--A baby's brooch. I bought two ladies' brooches. A lady's
blouse. Ladies' blouses for sale. Enemies' camps.

The rogue used Irish brogue. Slippery stairs led to the gallery. I'm captain of the lacrosse team in the junior league. The starry skies. Ladies' millinery is often expensive. The Scottish chieftain was a stubborn fighter. He had a vague idea of escaping the scaffold. The giraffe is scarred with wounds. A plague of gnats and flies. The machinery was sold at a bargain.

credit
summit
culprit
benefit
severe
severity
persevere
interfere
piety
nicety
gimlet
eaglet
delicate
intimate
fortunate
porcupine

Copy,--A jockey's horse. Two jockeys' horses. A donkey's travels.
Monkeys' tricks. Donkeys' ears.

Moderate supplies will not satisfy the eaglets on the rocky summit. A porcupine's quill pierced the unfortunate culprit's thigh. Persevere in boring the hole; but don't interfere with my gimlet. The severe weather will benefit my niece. Notice the nicety of their speech and the piety of their intimate friends. High ceilings. A hart is a male deer. A fierce boar chased Ernest.

frolic
traffic
elastic
electric
crystal
mystery
bicycle
tricycle
cleanly
heather
cunning
lullaby
inferior
superior
interior
exterior

Copy,--Men's and boys' overcoats. Women's parasols. Girls' waists.
Infants' wraps. A turkey's feather. Turkeys' wings.

The exterior and the interior of the engine are polished. Most babies' eyes look cunning. A sweet lullaby. I prefer a bicycle to a tricycle. An elastic band disappeared in the frolic. The electric light is a mystery. Employ cleanly and superior servants. Freight traffic is heavier. Dye the arrows red. Ewes graze in the meadows. Heather is purple. Water, clear as crystal.

crackle
shackle
chuckle
speckled
lynch
syringe
patient
quotient
agreed
indeed
proceed
succeed
familiar
peculiar
horizon
horizontal

Add --d, --ing to glide, disable, glance, grudge, provoke, tremble,
trickle, trifle, trudge; as, glided, gliding.

He agreed to proceed slyly. Shackle the prisoner. The torch is crackling. Use the syringe. He chuckles as he buckles the harness. His eyes seem familiar but his walk or gait is peculiar. The horizon seems ablaze. Negroes are sometimes lynched in the Southern States. Horizontal beams. Be patient, the quotient is correct.

preface
surface
retrace
embrace
bureau
biscuit
ketchup
moustache
knoll
knavish
increase
decrease
vagrant
fragrant
stagnant
ignorant

Join --ness to slow, fast, rough, smooth, weak, numb, coarse,
prompt, calm, deaf, mean, even, plain, keen; as, keenness.

The brief preface shows sense. The whole surface seemed knolls, rough boulders, and stagnant pools. The knavish pedlar carries biscuits and ketchup. The vagrant twirls his moustache. A quaint bureau fragrant with roses. Ignorant of Canadian customs. Pause for each clause. Misers' hoards increase; their comforts decrease. Retrace your footsteps. A mother's embrace.

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clause
league
culprit
knavish
bureau
quotient
peculiar
chieftain
persevere
ignorant
moustache
machinery
biscuit
syringe
patient
decrease
lacrosse
mystery
lynch
giraffe
gallery
bicycle
superior
delicate

Our maid was ignorant of the mysteries of dyeing. By persevering she succeeded in kneading dough for biscuit. She has a peculiar stare, but is certainly a superior servant. The chieftain waxes his reddish moustache. They may lynch the culprit who knavishly interfered with the machinery. On the bureau is a model of a bicycle near a picture of a giraffe. The patient is in delicate health.

gaudy
pauper
haunted
gauntlet
musical
medical
musician
physician
withhold
nowhere
loophole
threshold
accident
hesitate
meditate
obstinate

Add --ness to saucy, heavy, weighty, cleanly, lazy, lively, easy,
chilly, hasty, musty; as, sauciness.

The musician meditates on a new hymn. The heir's birthday. Nowhere would physicians or medical men withhold medicine from a pauper. The obstinate knave's laziness and sauciness made them hesitate. The great heaviness or weightiness of lead. I innocently caused an accident. The door-hinges creaked. He threw the gauntlet on the threshold of the haunted chamber.

hyena
hyphen
cycling
hyacinth
victuals
cayenne
conquer
conquest
dye-stuff
rye-bread
therefore
buckwheat
ravine
vaseline
benzine
magazine

Add --y to humble, noble, single, double, forcible, ease, able,
ample, simple, wheeze; as, humbly.

"Rye-bread" requires a hyphen. Before the tempest it was calm in the ravine. Use cayenne pepper sparingly on victuals. Benzine removes stains. Vaseline is advertised in the weekly magazine. The savage hyena was conquered. We see lovely hyacinths when cycling. Lye comes through leaching ashes. Dye-stuff injured his eyesight, therefore he wears glasses.

talons
dragon
ransom
random
baffle
ruffle
tussle
muddle
mumble
hubbub
smuggle
straddle
infancy
vacancy
resemble
assemble

Join --d, --ing to meddle, tattle, haggle, prattle, crinkle,
cackle, kindle, stifle, puddle; as, meddled, meddling.

The eagle's cruel talons. St. George slew the dragon. A blazing chimney baffled the brigade. After a severe tussle he seized the smuggler's dagger. Avoid mumbling words. Random efforts are usually vain. Ransom the captive from the tower. Choose a roan mare. In infancy he resembled my nephew whose legacy he enjoys. Crowds assembled. Fill the vacancy. A good policy.

ulster
bolster
upholster
register
moisten
moisture
pastime
furniture
tangle
triangle
mangled
dangling
garbage
herbage
encourage
discourage

Write --ing after piece, pierce, grieve, dangle, jingle, arise,
deserve, drizzle, resemble, assemble; as, piercing.

My ulster resists moisture. Weigh the feather bolster. Erase their names from the register. Flying kites is a boy's pastime. A triangle has three corners. Moisten the clothes. A mangled limb. Bury the decayed herbage and other garbage. See the cord dangling. Upholster the lounge at the furniture factory. Encourage the scholar. He seems discouraged.

affect
protect
inspect
prospect
bantam
banners
fleeting
greeting
plight
delight
sight-seer
twilight
satchel
thatched
petticoat
hoar-frost

To worthy, hungry, speedy, crusty, cheery, airy, weary, angry,
sturdy, dreary, add --er, --est; as, worthier, worthiest.

The prospect of bathing at twilight delights us. Satchel in hand, he inspected our quiet village. Even the sight-seers were affected by the children's greeting. A thatched roof often leaks. See the hoar-frost glisten. A sorry plight, a clumsier gait. Protect the herdsman's bantams. Baby clutches a red banner. The fleeting hour.

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gaudy
plight
ravine
tussle
affect
hyphen
ransom
ruffle
satchel
smuggle
victuals
moisture
pastime
muscle
cycling
fatigue
nowhere
therefore
cayenne
withhold
vaseline
physician
threshold
magazine

Hewing wood exercises the muscles. Cycling for pastime causes slight fatigue. A whole horde of smugglers. My victuals were withheld. A sorry plight. He threw the magazine on the threshold, and seized his satchel. He was fined for using foul oaths. My heart was, therefore, sore with grief. Nowhere in the ravine have I seen moisture or hoar-frost. Physicians wrap up in furs.

dealt
deafness
stealthy
endeavor
trounce
trousers
aroused
announce
matron
sexton
summon
Solomon
vulgar
grammar
similar
particular

Put en-- before able, noble, large, rage, circle, dear, camp, wrap,
feeble, slave, title; as, enable.

The hale and hearty sexton is threatened with deafness. The matron of the hospital dealt with the rogue. The thief in tweed trousers was severely trounced. Endeavor to learn grammar. The calendars are similar. We received a summons to haul down our colors. The sun's rays. Steer for the pier. Vulgar talk arouses the wrath of the officers and guests. A sly, stealthy step.

sinews
pewter
skewer
steward
oarsmen
boarding
reproach
approach
rebel
tunnel
spaniel
Spaniard
Arctic
Pacific
Atlantic
Antarctic

Add --ful to mourn, power, respect, hope, delight, youth, trust.

The injured oarsmen moan and groan with pain but utter no oaths. A gaunt Spaniard sought a boarding-house. He reproached his spaniel for approaching the gray mare and foal. Near the tunnel entrance is a lime-kiln. The rebels swore on the Holy Book. Through a clever ruse we won a goal. A pewter spoon. The steward's muscles and sinews are strong. A skewer fastens the roast. The Pacific and Antarctic oceans.

terror
horror
traitor
portrait
insane
profane
baneful
hurricane
absence
essence
commence
difference
vicious
precious
gracious
spacious

Copy,--Negro, negress; emperor, empress; duke, duchess; prince,
princess; actor, actress; hunter, huntress.

Their profane oaths, baneful and vicious language filled us with horror. A fire commenced in our absence. The servants were almost insane with terror. Portraits and precious keepsakes of our gracious empress were seized by the traitors. Many rare jewels were buried on the ocean beach. There is a difference between the juice and the essence of lemon. A furious hurricane.

adore
encore
restore
explore
necktie
nickname
shamrock
shipwreck
thrifty
panther
Sabbath
sheathed
wallop
wallow
drenched
wrenched

Join --ful to will, skill, peace, grace; as, wilful, graceful.

Swine wallow in the mire. The soldier on guard was drenched with rain. He sheathed his sword. He wrenched the pistol from the villain's grasp, and walloped him. In exploring the Arctic seas, we heard awful tales of shipwreck. Select pieces for encores. I admire the four-leaved shamrock. Panthers and hyenas are savage. Avoid nicknames. Plaid neckties. The holy Sabbath. Worship and adore Him. Restore all borrowed supplies.

zero
cargo
volcano
mosquito
quarry
quarrel
bankrupt
scripture
sulphur
triumph
prophet
camphor
comical
festival
vertical
practical

Add --ess to lion, poet, heir, count, baron, govern; and to mister,
tiger, hunter, songster, waiter; as, mistress.

Write a zero or naught. A practical builder hews stone from the vertical walls of the quarry. The cargo of bankrupt stock has arrived. The harvest festivals are announced in autumn. The chief returned in triumph. The New Testament Scriptures. I smell camphor. Great musical revivals commenced in Wales. The mosquitoes annoy the actress. Sulphur is hurled from the volcano.

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zero
dealt
encore
quarry
Arctic
wallow
arouse
traitor
profane
essence
trousers
vertical
vicious
sulphur
quarrel
prophet
summons
wrenched
portrait
approach
scripture
mosquito
precious
difference

A vicious beggar approached the lime-kiln. His profane oaths aroused the portrait painter's anger. The hale old sailor hauls loads of sulphur to the piers. A hearty encore. The deer has lain down among the fir trees. The giraffe was led to a high stake and tied there. A quarrel commenced near the quarry. The Arctic Circle. The prophet Daniel. Read the Scriptures through.

accent
decent
century
innocent
victor
victim
verdict
Victoria
science
scissors
scenery
scented
element
elevator
skeleton
celebrate

Put im-- before pure, proper, perfect, polite, patient, prudent.

The victim of the wreck was an innocent pianist, skilled in the elements of science. The victor was a decent but impatient lawyer with a Scottish accent. What delightful, rugged scenery! An imperfect skeleton of a buffalo. The verdict was in our favor. The storm destroyed a huge elevator. The twentieth century celebrates Queen Victoria's birthday. A scented cambric handkerchief. He peddles scissors and skeins of yarn.

solemn
condemn
Saviour
behavior
gouge
indulge
draught
laughter
twitch
twitter
whinny
whimper
peasant
pheasant
assistant
assistance

Place dis-- before mount, lodge, courage, grace, unite, continue.

The crippled peasant dreaded the assistant's threat to poison his pheasants. Be truthful in business. Swallows twitch and twitter. The steeds whinny when unhitched from the whipple-trees. The hounds whimper. The Chief Justice solemnly condemned the officer. The Saviour of the world awed their wicked behavior. The chimney-flue has a great draught. Roars of hearty laughter.

afford
assort
absorb
portion
apparel
apparent
excellent
continent
assert
dessert
goddess
headdress
sculptor
bachelor
professor
conductor

Put fore-- with tell, see, run, warn, show, stall; as, foretell.

After dessert, a professor read a droll essay on our continent. The celebrated sculptor is apparently a bachelor. He moulds the figure of a goddess. The excellent actress in neat apparel is absorbed in headdresses. The heiress foresees fraud but feigns assent. The conductor jostled the people in the aisle. Assort a portion of the colors. Use minnows as bait for bass.

whir
whirl
virgin
origin
intrude
confuse
consume
conclude
salute
dispute
compute
execute
visible
possible
terrible
horrible

Put in-- before correct, complete, direct, human, exact, active.

The barren trees are consumed. Virgin soil has never grown grain. Horrible crimes possibly owe their origin to disputes. The intruder withdrew, seeming quite confused. Whirled round by machinery. Terrible bruises were visible. The dead bugler's bier. Salute the duchess. I concluded the accused would duly execute the dredging. A partridge whirred past.

acute
curate
cucumber
cultivate
adult
consult
druggist
luggage
polar
popular
regular
singular
movable
probable
valuable
vegetable

Join mis-- to chance, use, lay, lead, led, call, deal, hap, quote.

The curate suffers acute grief. Consult a physician or a druggist. A teaspoonful of this draught is probably enough for an adult. Cultivate wholesome vegetables or cucumbers. Silk caterpillars are valuable. Polar bears devour seals. An inhuman butcher slashed the dun-colored deer. Regular attendance. Singular behaviour. The dyer seems popular.

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whirl
essay
polar
twitch
curate
whinny
origin
actress
dessert
accuse
solemn
sulphur
terrible
execute
regular
skeleton
decency
valuable
visible
scissors
prophet
bachelor
cucumber
headdress

The bachelor's scissors are valuable. An essay on the origin of sulphur. For decency's sake. The actress wears a movable wreath as a headdress. Two terrible dragons were visible. Of course the lynx steals bait. The prophets were accused and executed. A sign of meanness and baseness. The curate's speech at dessert was too solemn. Regular meals improve one's health.

brier
fiery
variety
society
debtor
editor
janitor
operator
opinion
religion
rebellion
dominion
permit
admitted
remitting
submission

Add --ed, --ing to admit, remit, permit, submit; as, admitted.

Legions of British soldiers and fiery hordes of savages fought during the rebellion in Egypt. All debtors must settle their accounts with the editor. The janitor of the school paid the operator. "Good-day," cried the mower, whetting his scythe. Briers have grown among the lilies and furze bushes. Permit no wrong. The gambler's companions submitted. Our country is a dominion. We have a variety of opinions in our society.

cutlet
omelet
banquet
pamphlet
jovial
billiards
burdock
bulrush
ruffian
guardian
historian
librarian
fraction
affection
recollect
collection

Put --ly after cool, cruel, royal, central, jovial, natural, exact.

At the banquet I ate a cutlet and an omelet. Our guardians seized the ruffians. He coolly knelt. I guessed the quantity exactly. Do you recollect my collection of problems on fractions? The genial historian has written a pamphlet. The librarian bought tracts. He pried into the secret of our large profits. The actor is jovial and plays billiards. A burdock is a coarse weed. Bulrushes or cat-tails grow in swamps.

oval
vocal
petal
formal
oral
coral
floral
mortal
infinite
definite
opposite
favorite
admirable
reasonable
confession
profession

Put --er, --est, --ly with icy, haughty, guilty, shabby, steady,
sleepy, pretty, gloomy, noisy, mighty; as, icier, iciest, icily.

Petals are oval-shaped. What admirable vocal music! I made an oral confession. Act reasonably. Coral beads. Bicycle pedals are made of steel. Dredge opposite the pier. Florists deal in floral wreaths. The prophets taught the people to value their immortal souls. Mention a definite sum for freight. The heavens seem infinite.

valiant
brilliant
ridicule
vestibule
dribble
dwindle
constable
estimable
appeal
reveal
conceal
congeal
cavalry
mineral
political
principal

Add --able to love, move, tame, blame, value; as, lovable.

A valiant cavalry charge won the fight. Bleak, level plains. The syrup dribbles. The profits dwindle away. Conceal the precious minerals. The brilliant light revealed several new features. Lambs bleat. Sun-bleached linen. The vestibule floor creaks. You resemble our estimable principal. Ice is water congealed. He ridicules the miner's bare pate. The choir chants a psalm or hymn. Observe the pauses. A political speech. Appeal to the judge.

general
eternal
internal
external
forgery
drapery
drollery
drudgery
actual
gradual
punctual
continual
derrick
barracks
bullock
hammock

Write over-- with rate, run, ride, reach, joyed; as, overrate.

The generals alight. Their arrival at the barracks was the signal for freeing negroes from slavery. Internal or external injury. A gradual growth. Almighty God is eternal. The pale widow's mite. Two mettlesome steeds. The drapery blazed up. Forgery is a serious offence. Drudgery is continual labor; drollery, odd humor.

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fiery
blight
creak
bleach
actual
vocal
debtor
floral
omelet
ruffian
conquest
punctual
several
eternal
conceal
banquet
guardian
drudgery
rebellion
recollect
admitted
ridicule
opposite
reasonable

Conceal the gilt sword. Ruffians tease the bear. At the banquet the guardian seemed bored by debtors. Gamblers admitted their profits. The mason's plumb-line. I recollect the Indian rebellion. The debtor's temper was fiery and unreasonable. The vocal solo was ridiculed. The conquest of several islands. Nuns' veiling. This floral wreath seems actually bleached. An eternal scourge.

dairy
despair
exclaim
claimant
bronze
apology
hideous
listener
statue
tissue
immense
specimens
juvenile
appetite
dove-cot
anecdote

Put --ing after urge, charge, rage, dodge, pledge, judge, manage,
oblige, race, measure, praise; as, urging.

An immense statue of bronze metal was visible. Goblins were hideous. I wear a specimen medal on my mantle. "A lion's mane!" exclaimed he. A faithful dairy maid. Peel the oranges in tissue paper. No apology is needed. The claimant for damages suffers an agony of despair. An amusing anecdote. A keen appetite. A juvenile carpenter built a dove-cot.

ewer
ewe-lamb
dewdrops
brand-new
wizard
hazard
gizzard
blizzard
lobster
canister
cashier
clothier
obedient
obedience
experience
experiment

Add --ed, --ing to model, level, travel, equal, quarrel, cancel,
ravel, shovel; as, modelled, modelling.

The cashiers were obedient and rarely quarrelled. Meddle less with minor affairs. I heard a clothier's experience. A brand-new plate glass. Ewers or jugs of water. Maize is Indian corn. He hazards his safety by travelling in blizzards. Fowls have gizzards. Our mettle won the main battle. The wizard's charms. Try some experiments. Tea canisters. Boiled lobsters.

captor
captive
candor
clamor
cholera
character
backache
mechanic
ear-rings
Methodist
memorize
accompany
canvass
carcass
trespass
windlass

Join --ed, --ing to tunnel, pencil, label, gravel, tassel, barrel,
carol, gambol; as, tunnelled, tunnelling.

Captors of negroes used blood-hounds. The captive women sold their ear-rings. Canvass the mechanics. Obscure sounds of a startling character accompanied the earthquake. Memorize the chorus. They meddle with our windlass and trespass on our premises. They're labelling the parcels. Speak with candor. Avoid noise or clamor. Bury that carcass. Cholera is unknown here.

borax
smilax
conveys
surveys
soldered
dandelion
cinnamon
raspberry
allspice
colander
Yukon
Montreal
effect
difficult
architect
catechism

Add --ing to inquire, increase, suppose, accuse; as, inquiring.

Were you conveying allspice or cinnamon from the freight train? Survey the wreaths entwined with smilax. Borax is used in soldering metals. Squeeze the raspberries through a colander. What effect has chilly weather on dandelions? The architect's scheme is difficult to grasp. He knows the catechism by rote. The Yukon is many leagues from Montreal.

commit
command
commence
recommend
excel
expel
compel
comrade
compass
cardinal
hiccough
knowledge
caress
assess
discuss
district

Put --s, --ed after obey, annoy, survey, employ, display, array.
Add --es to grocery, dairy, ally, folly, quarry; as, groceries.

I recommend that we command the officer to commit the comical rascal to jail, and expel his comrades. The district will compel the Mayor to aid the villagers. We've commenced to discuss business. He excels in a knowledge of the cardinal points of the compass. Caress the child with hiccoughs. A wheelwright makes naves and spokes.

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dairy
boggy
sphere
chord
effect
wizard
clothier
survey
commit
camphor
despair
hiccough
colander
architect
blizzard
ear-rings
catechism
blackguard
raspberry
obedience

The patient clothier wears a bronze medal. The trails seem a maze of cross-roads. Pare the juicy pears. The sweet-scented, new-mown hay. Hawks soar o'er the strait. My thick-soled shoes creak. A chord in music. A wizard's tricks. In obedience to the architect. I fear a blizzard. Hiccoughs annoy me. I despair of ever committing the catechism to memory.

bakery
brewery
pottery
knavery
surgery
delivery
discovery
embroidery
tinware
barefoot
cylinder
clergyman
council
surround
boundary
warehouse

Join --able to admire, desire, excuse, dispute; as, admirable.

Delivery wagons haul flour to the bakery. A brewery at the city boundary is wrecked. The clerk's knavery. A lone warehouse near the freight yard. Elect eight aldermen to the city council. The iron roller is a hollow cylinder. I cut my bare wrist on a piece of pottery or tinware. The clergyman is distinctly heard. Idol worship exists in India. She wears rare finery and embroidery. He made a discovery in the surgery.

necessity
necessary
possession
procession
attach
attacked
mucilage
pencilled
rigor
vigor
honor
harbor
complain
Champlain
waistcoat
mail-pouch

Add --y to paste, grease, pebble, sponge, possible; as, pasty.

Attack them with vigor. Attach pieces of rope if necessary. Detached rocks made the descent dangerous. Mucilage is a necessity in an office. Champlain explored several rivers in the interior of Canada. The mail-pouch was rifled. My waistcoat pocket. Her pencilled eyebrows. The lynx's lair. Complain to the City Council. The procession took possession of the street.

ballad
ballast
cannon
channel
laurel
auburn
assault
applause
signal
arrival
ordinary
asparagus
oneself
bayonet
gingham
dumpling

Put --some after glad, delight, bother, trouble, blithe, frolic.

Vessels need ballast to cross the channel. Wrest the reed or cane from that liar. The wreck is wrapped in mist. My niece is combing her auburn hair and tying it with dyed ribbons. She sang several ballads, winning laurels. An ordinary gingham apron. Tender asparagus for dessert. Manual training is of great benefit to oneself. The gradual descent of the road. An apple dumpling. The pilot made no assault. The captain's bayonet.

torrent
decorate
monitor
astonish
villain
mermaid
maintain
remainder
cooing
cuckoo
raccoon
heirloom
castor
bishop
scallop
atmosphere

Join --ness to clumsy, flimsy, gaudy, haughty; as, clumsiness.

The monitor's haughtiness was maintained. A torrent's roar. I rowed near the sea-beach with sculls. An enemy's revenge. A bishop's white robes. Decorated with scalloped lace. The villain's prison cell. A drier atmosphere. Cooing pigeons. The cuckoo clock is an old heirloom. Buffalo and raccoon robes for sleighs are made without seams. Castor oil is prepared from seeds.

receipt
leisure
seizing
deceive
swoon
saloon
balloon
spittoon
journal
courage
courtesy
adjourn
gentry
laundry
foundry
gallantry

Add --ness to weary, steady, muddy, woolly; as, weariness.

The cooper makes barrels of hoops and staves. The saloon-keeper wrung his hands in sheer despair and swooned. I'm aware that courage and courtesy are national traits of the French. The council adjourned. The foundry moulds iron patterns. Erase all false entries. A daily journal. A receipt from the laundry. His leisure and gallantry deceived the gentry.

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villain
leisure
council
descent
brewery
bayonet
flavor
assault
camphor
oneself
raccoon
cylinder
channel
torrent
spheres
necessary
ordinary
warehouse
heirloom
mucilage
boundary
waistcoat
necessity
atmosphere

He leant against the lime-kiln. The lynx has lain down in his lair. I need a key for the mail-pouch. Idols are deaf and dumb. A great herd of deer. Raccoon overcoats. Torrents make their descent through the rugged channels. Warehouses are not necessary in ordinary business. Cylinders are not spheres.

REVIEW OF THE DIFFICULT WORDS.

absence
absorb
accent
accident
actual
acute
adjourn
admirable
advise
affect
almanac
almighty
almonds
alms
altar
allspice
anecdote
announce
anxiety
apology
apparel
appeal
appetite
applause
approach
arrange
asparagus
assemble
assert
assistant
atmosphere
attach
auburn
bachelor
backache
baffled
balance
balcony
ballad
banquet
barefoot
bargain
barrier
bayonet
behavior
benefited
benzine
bilious
billiards
bleach
biscuit
borax
boundary
brier
brilliant
brogue
bronze
bureau
burglary
burial
cancer
candor
canvass
cannon
captive
camphor
carcass
carrier
cashier
castor
catechism
caterpillar
cavalry
cayenne
chaplain
Champlain
channel
character
chieftain
chuckles
cinnamon
claimant
clamor
cleanly
clothier
colander
commence
companion
compel
complain
conceal
condemn
conductor
confession
conquest
continual
council
courtesy
crackle
crevice
crystal
cucumber
cudgel
cultivate
curate
cycling
cylinder
dairy
dandelion
deafness
debtor
decayed
decency
deceit
decorate
decrease
definite
delicate
delivery
dearth
despair
dessert
difference
difficult
discourage
discovery
dominion
draught
drollery
drudgery
dwindle
dye-stuff
ear-rings
effect
elevator
embroidery
encore
endeavor
estimable
ewe-lamb
excellent
exclaim
execute
exhaust
exhort
experience
exterior
external
familiar
famine
favorite
festival
fiery
foliage
foresee
fortunate
foundry
fragrant
furrier
gallant
gaudy
gauntlet
gingham
giraffe
gizzard
goddess
gouge
gracious
grammar
grievance
grocery
guidance
haddock
harbor
hazard
headdress
heather
heirloom
herbage
heroine
hesitate
hiccough
hideous
hindrance
hoar-frost
horizontal
hyacinth
hyphen
immense
innocent
interfere
irregular
isles
jovial
knavish
knowledge
language
lattice
league
leisure
librarian
liquorice
luggage
lullaby
lynch
magazine
maggot
mail-pouch
maintain
manual
mechanic
medicine
memorize
merely
millinery
moisten
monarch
monitor
moustache
movable
mucilage
musician
mystery
necessary
nuisance
obedience
obstinate
omelet
oneself
opposite
origin
Pacific
pamphlet
paragraph
particular
pastime
patient
peasant
peculiar
petticoat
phrase
pheasant
physician
plague
plumage
political
popular
porcupine
portrait
possible
poultice
practical
precious
principal
professor
prophet
punctual
quotient
raccoon
raspberry
reasonable
rebellion
receipt
recommend
rectangle
remnant
reptile
riddance
ridicule
ruffian
rye-bread
salmon
salve
satchel
Saviour
scaffold
scenery
scissors
science
seizure
severity
sexton
shackle
similar
sinews
skeleton
slippery
smuggler
solder
solemn
Solomon
spacious
specimen
sphere
spittoon
squabble
stagnant
sterile
steward
stomach
stubborn
studious
sulphur
superior
summon
surgery
survey
tedious
terrier
therefore
threshold
traffic
traitor
triumph
trudging
tussle
unusual
upholster
valiant
various
vaseline
vertical
vestibule
Victoria
victuals
vigor
villains
vineyard
virgin
warehouse
warrant
warrior
war-whoop
windlass
withhold
wrenched

STANDARD IV. JUNIOR.

GRADE 6.

baboon
harpoon
caboose
papoose
survive
surmount
surround
surrender
melody
harmony
injury
industry
melodious
harmonious
injurious
industrious

Add --ful to care, spoon, pail, mouth, tear, sorrow, wonder, mirth.

The whale survived the harpoon's injurious effects. The city will surrender ere the troops surround it or surmount the towers. Their melodious voices seem in perfect harmony. The squaw's papoose slept in the caboose. The industrious carpenter's adze. Wear a ruff. Our yacht is a swift sailer. Baboons are apes.

dial
diary
diamond
dialogue
falcon
weapon
jealous
zealous
fidgety
hedgehog
partridge
cartridge
colony
colonial
envious
previous

Put --less after speech, flaw, fault, shame, tear, thought, doubt.

Falcons are trained hawks. Partridge are called grouse. The hedgehog's weapons are quills. The zealous preacher's diary contained an account of a previous wreck. Be not jealous or envious of people wearing diamonds. Colonial means belonging to a colony. The dial of a clock. Alter our dialogue. The fidgety maiden dreaded all weapons. We load pistols with cartridges.

liable
denial
defiant
reliance
peony
surgeon
sturgeon
melodeon
grateful
pressure
forbade
forbidden
angular
irregular
circular
particular

Add --ing to lodge, trudge, grudge, pickle, crumble, curdle,
gurgle, cripple, pierce, rescue, partake; as, lodging.

After some pressure the surgeon sent a defiant denial. Put no reliance in irregular scholars. Angling with bait for sturgeon is strictly forbidden. You are liable to be fined. In this particular case a surgeon dressed the wound. In vain he forbade their teasing the lynx. I gratefully accepted the red peony. Play the melodeon. Make angular blocks.

notify
modify
signify
qualify
divine
divisor
division
diligent
esteem
redeem
peevish
discreet
twopence
threepence
halfpenny
blackguard

Join --able to note, love, tame, cure, endure, adore, advise,
remove, dispute; as, notable.

Notify the buyers that we'll modify our terms. Twopence per ounce is the wholesale price. The diligent are esteemed. Redeem your sundial. The division is correct but the divisor is wrong. Only a blackguard would steal a child's halfpenny. Place circular rows tier above tier. Our discreet physician has a peevish patient. Are you qualified for the position?

tunnel
funnel
furnish
burnish
savor
flavor
tumor
rumor
suet
cruet
frequent
eloquent
describe
subscribe
description
subscription

Place un-- before envied, noticed, settled, erring, foreseen,
christian, known, married, merciful; as, unenvied.

At the inquest I was frequently requested to furnish a description of the stolen cruet. The steak has the flavor and savor of suet. Accept half-yearly subscriptions from the subscribers. Burnish the brass funnel. Rumors of a wreck in the tunnel. The eloquent doctor cures tumors.

6 (REVIEW)

melody
weapon
caboose
fidgety
jealous
surgeon
liable
funnel
qualify
forbade
diligent
previous
colonial
frequent
circular
pressure
irregular
injurious
surround
diamonds
twopence
halfpenny
partridge
subscribe

At the Colonial Exhibit I bought funnels for twopence. Jealous of a friend. A brooch of real diamonds. Liable for damages. "To forgive is divine." Written in a diary. The fidgety student was diligent and frequently eloquent, but could not qualify for a surgeon. Surround the circular table. The intense heat may prove injurious. During the previous day the pressure of business demanded every minute.

guilty
guilds
guitar
guinea
cavity
brevity
nobility
humility
reverse
disperse
immerse
converse
ancient
deficient
efficient
sufficient

Join --ity to scarce, pure, cave, false, secure, chaste; as, purity.

The miner has sufficient gold for a guinea. The women's guild has dispersed. Its members plead for purity and chastity. The guilty officer often shows traits of nobility. This efficient player on the guitar converses with brevity. Be not deficient in humility. Ancient chinaware is very expensive. The staid donkey brayed. Reverse the engine. Immerse the beef in brine.

despise
chastise
Chinese
Japanese
sorcery
slavery
archery
flattery
armor
vapor
poached
encroach
luscious
delicious
suspicion
suspicious

Write dis-- with abuse, allow, approve, claim, arrange, color,
favor, credit, satisfy, respect, qualify, possess; as, disabuse.

The Japanese were encroaching on Chinese territory. The poacher is under suspicion. The luscious peaches and the delicious ice-cream vanished like vapor. Despise flattery. I ate poached eggs. We chastise people for sorcery. The brood of pigeons soared above the stile. Warriors wear steel armor when repairing breaches in the walls. Bowmen boast of their archery.

hearth
hearken
heartiness
heart's-ease
parade
paradise
parable
paragraph
blighted
lightning
thorough
doughnut
election
direction
dictation
dictionary

Place un-- before aided, aware, bearable, buried, ceasing.

Hearken to the parable of the sower. Soldiers were on parade during the election. The heartiness of their welcome. The doughnut dropped on the hearth unnoticed. We can imagine scenes in paradise. The lightning blighted the beech-tree. The officer gave directions. A wry face. A thorough examination of the skull. Choose a paragraph for dictation. The pansy is called heart's-ease. Consult your dictionary.

heathen
sheared
teamster
seamstress
hallo
coasting
wherever
wherefore
lustre
lustrous
wondrous
monstrous
genuine
masculine
feminine
glycerine

Place dis-- with taste, honor, honest, united, pleased, loyal.

Seamstress is feminine gender, while teamster is masculine. The sheared goat chased the wheelwright across a rood of pasture to butt him. Hallo! What dangerous coasting! They show a genuine interest in the heathen. Diamonds possess wondrous lustre. These monstrous beasts browse wherever there is no grazing. The captain wrung my hand. Buy four bottles of glycerine.

lilac
rival
final
spinal
pinafore
separate
tomahawk
marmalade
niggard
braggart
sluggard
drunkard
engineer
volunteer
auctioneer
mountaineer

Join --ing to hem, refer, regret, expel, wrap, begin, forget,
compel, occur; as, hemming.

Her pinafore was daubed with marmalade. The engineer made a final attempt to rescue the drunkard. Ants are neither sluggards nor braggarts. The volunteer will broach the subject. The auctioneer had spinal trouble. The mountaineer wrapped his plaid around him. He was niggardly on his bridal tour. The Indian sought to fight with the tomahawk.

12 (REVIEW)

scene
bridal
hearth
guitar
weapon
sheared
breaches
lustrous
separate
paradise
deficient
feminine
genuine
disperse
election
thorough
luscious
referring
sufficient
glycerine
lightning
occurring
dictionary
auctioneer

Make a thorough search in the dictionary. Is the weapon a genuine pistol? The fuel on the hearth is sufficient. Glycerine is sold by druggists. Buy a new medal. What a lustrous bronze color! Seeing the lightning, the timid women dispersed. I'm referring to colonial acts and scenes. Breaches of the law occurred daily. The auctioneer offered silk, deficient in lustre.

pilot
otter
felon
heron
colonel
oppress
express
distress
majestic
domestic
gigantic
romantic
ransack
knapsack
knick-knacks
knickerbockers

Write in-- before curable, elegant, different, human, sufficient.

Their chief seized the felon's leather knapsack. I ransacked auction rooms for knick-knacks. The clerk carried some accounts in his knickerbockers. Otters are not domestic animals. We knew the pilot's signals of distress. An address on our romantic scenery. He expressed sorrow for his fault. A gigantic fraud. Never oppress the weak. The colonel's majestic bearing. The crane resembles the heron.

coolly
woolly
shrilly
squally
solar
lunar
relapse
collapse
disguise
dissolve
persuade
camomile
addition
petition
partition
competition

Add --ed to shrivel, parcel, gambol, control; as, shrivelled.

A competition in rapid addition. A solar day and a lunar month. Lambs with woolly fleeces gambol in the vale. Squally weather. Don't give camomile flowers to our friends. Dissolve the powder in vinegar. Persuade the guests to sign a petition. The choir sang shrilly. The patient suffered a relapse. He coolly bored through the partition with an auger. The walls collapsed instantly.

sewer
lewd
shrewd
jews'-harp
stanza
veranda
mastiff
slouched
miracle
manacles
obstacle
spectacle
massive
passive
strolling
toll-gate

Join --er, --est to simple, nimble, obscure, secure; as, simpler.

The shrewd lawyer sought a clew. The huge mastiff slouched off the veranda. Recite the fourth stanza. I leaned against a massive sewer pipe. He strolled along, playing a jews'-harp. The manacles on his wrists were serious obstacles. I dropped a pair of spectacles at the toll-gate. A lewd, base fellow. Miracles startle the wisest or the simplest.

russet
jagged
gossip
daffodil
atlas
paltry
asphalt
falsehood
verdant
verdure
suggest
gesture
surged
purging
passenger
messenger

Add --ing to engage, examine, kindle, bundle, behave, provoke,
relieve, grieve; as, engaging.

The roaring, foaming surge caused the passengers to make gestures. Suggest a cheaper passage. Purge the filthy lanes. A quick messenger took my message. The dancing daffodils. Gossips spoke base falsehoods. The rocks had jagged edges. A Canadian atlas for sale. Asphalt pavement. Paltry excuses. The lawn is verdant. Showers and sunbeams cause verdure. A russet apple.

bison
talons
beckon
reckon
cruise
council
malady
granary
promote
postpone
wholesale
wholesome
mansion
expansion
omission
submission

Join --er, --est to fleecy, bulky, foggy, cleanly; as, fleecier.

The council may postpone their cruise. Promote the expansion of wholesale trade. I need a cleanlier maid. I tied a coarse cord in knots. Their submission led to the omission of salads from our usual fare. A mansion with a princely salary. A dreadful malady. The falcon's beak and cruel talons. The bison's horns.

18 (REVIEW)

pilot
surge
lunar
felon
sewer
bison
cheque
shrewd
quartz
gossip
cleaver
verdure
gesture
asphalt
colonel
collapse
omission
persuade
disguise
domestic
gigantic
barracks
wholesome
spectacles

Do gossips discuss wholesome subjects? Persuade the city to build a gigantic asphalt sewer. See the felon on the domestic's finger. The omission of gestures and disguise would improve the actress. A shrewd rogue signed a cheque for gold quartz. The colonel left his spectacles in the barracks. Verdure is greenness. The total collapse of the building. The butcher's cleaver is dull. Hunt the bison. The pilot fears the surging sea.

insure
assure
demure
procure
tinsel
damsel
morsel
counsel
abates
abandon
whet-stone
homestead
overseer
foreseen
industrial
caterpillar

Write be-- before wail, witch, grudge, moan, numb, smear.

Though hoarse I was relieved by a morsel of horehound. A demure damsel assured us that we were heartily welcome. A caterpillar's cocoon. Procure a whet-stone. As was foreseen, the homestead was abandoned by the settler. Tinsel is of slight value. I assure you he will counsel insuring the industrial school. Rubbing abates the aching in my knee-joint.

decline
refined
entwine
combine
verbal
proverb
perjury
jurymen
revise
comprise
preside
confide
evident
penitent
president
confident

Join --ness to clumsy, dreary, gaudy, silly, ruddy, haughty, manly,
womanly; as, clumsiness.

That witness, wearing the ruff or collar, declined to commit perjury. A refined physician reported verbally. Evidently the judge confides in the jurymen. The counsel is confident that the penitent prisoner will be released on bail. The club comprises a president, the necessary officers, and nineteen members. Revise the old proverb.

tonic
topic
tropics
frolicsome
italics
mandolin
Catholic
cathedral
marigold
navigate
obstinate
vaccinate
solitary
sanitary
military
imaginary

Add --d, --ing to ridge, bridge, wedge, lodge, hedge; as, ridged.

Print in italics. The Catholic church is a beautiful, sanitary cathedral. Give that obstinate invalid a tonic before vaccinating him. Captains and pilots navigate ships. The tropics are imaginary lines. The topic discussed was military weapons. A frolicsome youth played a mandolin. I wore a brooch fashioned like a marigold. The draught made the solitary lamp flare.

census
isthmus
surplus
omnibus
pallet
mallet
gorilla
vanilla
uniform
unicorn
universe
universal
instinct
distinct
extinguish
distinguish

Write in-- before come, close, dwell, trench, dent, lay, grain.

The hotel omnibus meets us. A nutmeg grater. Hares and lambs leap and gambol by instinct. The design is uniform but made of distinct patterns or units. Rude pallets of straw. The isthmus of Panama. Put the surplus money in the wallet. Extinguish the flames. Flavor the custard with vanilla. Does the mayor deign to bow? The universe is the world. I can distinguish gorillas from bears. The lion and the unicorn. A census of the village.

syllable
analysis
symbol
sympathy
latitude
solitude
multitude
destitute
corrupt
interrupt
multiple
chipmunk
footwear
bearskin
postscript
door-jamb

Add --es to belfry, diary, nursery, grocery, daisy, charity,
misery, dairy, century, lobby; as, belfries.

The destitute hermit dwelt in solitude. The sign or symbol of addition. In a postscript he showed a system of finding our latitude. I'm too hoarse to utter a syllable of sympathy. Clad in bearskin cap and heavy footwear. Substitute zinc for lead. A multiple of four. A multitude of chipmunks scampered off. I interrupted their review. The analysis of the sentence.

24 (REVIEW)

census
tropics
surplus
vanilla
symbol
isthmus
counsel
district
Catholic
perspire
overseer
analysis
sympathy
interrupt
extinguish
military
vaccinate
imaginary
frolicsome
individuals

A new system of analysis. The census reveals a surplus of officers in one military district. A heavy omnibus. The overseer of these individuals is perspiring. The isthmus is guarded. Imaginary fires are difficult to extinguish. Vaccinate the Italian as a sanitary measure. Despise not his counsel in tropic seas. The symbol of peace. Flavor with vanilla.

intense
expense
suspense
nonsense
select
defects
afflict
affliction
heifer
mullein
rat-trap
mattress
lenient
convenient
audience
convenience

Write up-- before heave, raise, rear, roar, lift, stroke, risen.

An Indian uprising caused intense excitement, much inconvenience, and great expense. Captains mustered their volunteers. Faint from suspense we awaited further news of our sore affliction. Select mattresses of convenient size with no defects. A touching, musical selection greatly affected the large audience. The peer showed affection for children. What nonsense to set a rat-trap there! A heifer grazed among the mulleins.

advance
romance
prudence
violence
cutlery
battery
culvert
accident
induced
reducing
produced
introduce
culture
vulture
torture
structure

Join --s to delay, essay, employ, pulley, parley, kidney, volley.

Produce the cutlery which was concealed in the culvert. An electric battery may cause accidents. Vultures attacked the wounded creature with great violence, and tortured it with their beaks and talons. They exhibit prudence, culture, and knowledge in erecting convenient structures. The yeast is in a jar on the hearth. A legend or romance. The English bow was made of yew.

genial
menial
trivial
material
particle
decayed
pickerel
mackerel
swath
thwart
reject
bazaar
religion
religious
foreign
sovereign

Place under-- with bid, drain, brush, value, mine, rate, score.

The blithe mower's machine cuts a narrow swath. Menial labor is no trivial affair. This genial sovereign knows several foreign languages. Reject all material a particle decayed. One's religion affects others' lives. The injured engineers attended their bazaar. He endeavors to thwart every religious scheme. Buy a pickerel or some mackerel.

agate
palate
rebate
frigate
assume
presume
dispute
compute
irritate
fugitive
liniment
regiment
eminent
prominent
semicolon
semicircle

Write --ed, --ing after deny, glory, envy, tarry, reply, study,
steady; as, denied, denying.

A prominent village officer envies my agate ring. The delicate pilot on the frigate has an irritated palate. He assumes charge. I presume the captain neither denies nor disputes his ability. Compute the interest. A fugitive from the regiment asked a citizen for liniment. Dr. Sunshine is a most eminent physician. Use fewer semicolons. A semicircle is a half-circle. A rebate for cash.

easel
weasel
resign
design
refrain
abstain
extreme
supreme
terrify
territory
interred
referred
partial
initials
essential
confidential

Add --er --est to silly, naughty, ruddy, stalky, puny, tardy, wiry,
noisy, icy, greedy; as, sillier, silliest.

A partial design lies on the easel. A supreme court official says it is essential to resign. Strictly confidential. Refrain from sardines and abstain from ale or beer. The late colonel was interred in the new cemetery with martial honors. Acquire more territory. A terrified weasel fled. Whose initials are written here?

30 (REVIEW)

weasel
cutlery
lenient
produce
mullein
suspense
scythe
foreign
trivial
fugitive
violence
structure
palate
thwart
assume
material
sovereign
semicolon
initial
terrify
acquaint
referred
irritated
prominent

Mow the mulleins on the terrace with scythes. Be lenient with a prominent citizen. Listening in suspense. A foreigner attempted violence on our sovereign. Buy steel cutlery of the best material. A terrified fugitive. I assumed you were acquainted. The initials should be capitals. He referred to trivial faults in their language.

cactus
tactful
contact
attract
trophy
gopher
dolphin
typhoid
ebony
agony
economy
scoundrel
denounce
pronounce
mahogany
toboggans

Write --s after halo, solo, folio, piano, banjo, lasso, canto,
memento; as, halos.

The greyhound caught a gopher. Our curlers won the trophy. Denounce the scoundrel. The senior judge pronounced sentence. A tactful phrase. Erect the steeple according to the contract. The coroner at the inquest. The dolphin often changes color when dying. Ebony is dear. Practise economy. The sewing-machine cover is mahogany. He cried in agony. A lassoed ox gored him. A toboggan slide.

recruit
pursuit
herring
haddock
divorce
corridor
tortoise
porpoise
career
pioneer
peelings
teeming
antelope
envelope
velvety
roly-poly

Place inter-- with line, lock, mingle, meddle, marry, lard, leave,
twine, view, weave, space; as, interline.

Gild the frame. A porpoise pursued the herring. The envelopes in the corridor are of velvety material. Tortoises are turtles. Creeks, teeming with salmon. A pioneer's career seldom led to divorce. In subduing a nation we use forcible means. The roly-poly is surely cooked. The peelings of the potatoes. Eat some haddock. The young recruit started in pursuit of an antelope.

fatal
brutal
psalm
pshaw
release
meagre
features
deceased
quoits
feigned
slaughter
smudged
pumice
avarice
jaundice
sacrifice

Join --ly to guilty, hearty, heavy, happy, saucy; as, guiltily.

The disease proved fatal. The details of deceased's career were meagre. Pumice floats in liquid. I feel fatigued. A brutal slaughter. The features seem calm. Release the prisoner afflicted with jaundice. Avarice and greediness are undesirable qualities. Their sacrifice was only feigned. Select a psalm. The smudged moulder can pitch quoits. Pshaw! the file was too brittle.

nozzle
drizzle
palings
parings
adieu
ochre
euchre
Europe
frigid
average
revenge
challenge
adventure
calculate
aggregate
congregate

Add --er, --est, --ly to speedy, plucky, hasty, weary, knotty.

Reuben bade adieu to Europe. The victor challenged us to a game of euchre. The aggregate is forty-four, the average eleven. They congregate to seek revenge. The sunbeams glare on the snow in frigid lands. I can gauge a barrel of ale. The apple parings are frozen and rigid. Paint the fence palings with yellow ochre. He held the nozzle of the hose in a drizzling rain. Calculate the cost.

sorrel
gospel
marvel
sentinel
gluey
clayey
exempt
brethren
route
tourist
artery
energy
spinach
chicory
grievous
mischievous

Copy,--Gov. means Governor; Gen., General; Col., Colonel; Prof.,
Professor; B.C., Before Christ; A.D., In the year of our Lord.

The sentinel challenged with great energy a mischievous tourist. The colonel cut an artery. The sorrel horse followed by a different route. The clayey soil was gluey, too stiff for spinach. An exhibition of sleight-of-hand tricks. A mixture of chicory and coffee. He marvels at our grievous affliction. Preach the gospel.

36 (REVIEW)

ochre
pshaw
quoits
tourist
energy
meagre
nozzle
career
clayey
grateful
pioneer
forcible
recruit
typhoid
release
brethren
grievous
features
economy
envelope
mahogany
challenge
mischievous
congregate

The pioneer practised economy in his whole career. Paint the door-jambs with yellow ochre. A crowd congregated. I was grateful for my release. He laments over his brethren's grievous attacks of typhoid fever. A mischievous recruit turned the nozzle on the tourists. The supply of mahogany wood is meagre. A blue envelope.

pacify
crucify
glorify
specify
reveal
bereave
pasturage
orphanage
avail
prevail
delaine
maimed
colonize
apologize
patronize
economize

Add --d, --ing to guide, grieve, cease, receive, plague, erase,
scare, relieve; as, guided, guiding.

A quaint carriage conveyed the bereaved waifs to an orphanage. The maimed woman is dressed in delaine. Specify a chance to economize. Apologize to the mayor for the pasturage. Colonize the islands and patronize their people. If he prevailed, some would glorify, others crucify him. Endeavor to pacify the rebels. It is of no avail to reveal the secret.

bamboo
grooved
dragoon
kangaroo
applaud
defraud
fraction
fractured
intimate
emigrate
obstinate
ventilate
advocate
suffocate
summary
rummage

Put in-- before direct, distinct, constant, decent, capable,
corrupt.

The squeamish dragoon has a vein of humor. He obstinately refuses to emigrate. Our intimate friends applaud the supple kangaroo's tricks. We shall suffocate unless you ventilate this chamber. The fractured limb was cut off. What fraction of eight is four? Write a summary of the scene. Advocate honesty. The bamboo was grooved. He was defrauded at a rummage sale.

Saxon
caldron
squadron
simpleton
scandal
placard
numeral
scabbard
numerous
generous
accustom
customary
positive
inquisitive
negative
interrogative

Add --ous to fury, study, melody, envy, vary; as, furious.

The simpleton read the placard. He gives negative or interrogative answers. He is positively furious at the scandal. Soup was supplied to the squadron from a generous caldron. Draw forth the sword from the scabbard. The inquisitive dwarf, wrapped in numerous robes, occupies his customary seat. We grate nutmegs on the grater. Numerals as four. Briton and Saxon are one. The detective's sight is not defective.

jersey
blarney
abolish
demolish
idiot
patriot
chariot
champion
merino
tapioca
myrtle
pyramid
delegate
desperate
reverent
tenement

Write --es after mulatto, mosquito, motto, calico, domino.

Could the pyramids of Egypt be demolished by cannon? I've read of Scottish patriots and warriors. Speak reverently to aged women. Is their son an idiot? We'll abolish crowded tenements. A delegates' meeting. In a chariot rode a wizard clad in myrtle green. I ate tapioca pudding. A desperate rogue tried to blarney us. The champion Jersey cow. Merino wool.

acquire
acquaint
prairies
porcelain
treacle
theatre
stirrup
innings
scalawag
vengeance
geography
photograph
turnstile
valentine
turpentine
Hallow-e'en

Write --es, --ed after copy, glory, envy, pity, fancy, modify.

Hallow-e'en is the eve of All-Saints' Day. Buy a porcelain bowl, and a quart of turpentine. A scalawag emptied treacle upon the turnstile. We upbraided her for acquiring a craving for the theatre. St. Valentine's Day. His stirrup broke on the prairie. Photograph the maid studying geography.

42 (REVIEW)

Saxon
jersey
treacle
crucify
patriot
placard
theatre
merino
prairie
scandal
bereaved
summary
accustom
negative
suffocate
acquaint
squadron
vengeance
positive
fraction
generous
dialogue
desperate
economize

Wear a jersey. He speaks plain Anglo-Saxon. A generous patriot is bereaved. The woollen cloak is merino. Thieves were crucified. Here is a summary of the squadrons of Europe. The theatre has fine prairie scenes. A desperate character vowed vengeance. I am positive he was accustomed to economize. May peace prevail. Placard the house. A suffocating chamber.

agile
fragile
docile
domicile
penance
peninsula
moderate
temperate
mania
petunia
betwixt
probable
indolent
insolent
crocodile
chocolate

Join --ed to pad, fulfil, blur, strip, excel, mob; as, padded.

The indolent volunteer will probably do penance for insolence. Use chocolates moderately. Be temperate. The elephant is docile. An agile squirrel. A mania for stealing. Petunias have fragile stalks. They flourish betwixt the baron's castle and our domicile. I saw crocodiles lying on a sandy peninsula.

phial
phlox
phonic
phlegm
abrupt
illustrate
disciples
discipline
Leonard
leopard
jeopardy
prophesy
flexible
perplexed
occasion
assurance

Put en-- before camp, chain, circle, close, courage, girdle, graft.

His disciples had too much assurance. Abrupt words caused a rupture in the discipline. Leonard's life was in jeopardy from a leopard. You seemed perplexed. There is phlegm in my throat. A phonic primer. These flexible stalks are tough. The cheque is genuine. I prophesy a famine. The phlox has purple flowers. A phial of medicine. Illustrate this occasion.

pennon
saffron
suburbs
curbstone
landscape
hailstorm
honeysuckle
huckleberry
edifice
precipice
cowardice
prejudice
alcohol
swollen
observant
attendant

Write --able after cure, imagine, note, laugh, reason, fashion.

A swollen limb. Alcohol contains poison. The landscape gardener made their residence attractive with honeysuckle. The hailstorm ruined their huckleberries. The wolf's cowardice. His wary attendant is yellow as saffron but is very observant. He built an edifice near a steep precipice. See their pennon float. He has a prejudice against curbstones in the suburbs.

46 (REVIEW)

docile
mania
phonic
fragile
phlegm
edifice
saffron
leopard
betwixt
penance
alcohol
prophesy
assurance
precipice
geography
swollen
disciples
observant
prejudice
photograph

Photograph the spotted leopard near the precipice. We prejudiced him against alcohol. Betwixt the saffron leaves were slight stalks. Fragile glass in a pasteboard box. His docile, observant disciples had assurance of success. I prophesy a failure in geography. He has a mania for sketching ancient edifices. A few moments of leisure.

REVIEW OF THE DIFFICULT WORDS.

abate
adieu
afflict
alcohol
analysis
armor
artery
asphalt
assurance
attract
audience
avarice
average
barracks
battery
bazaar
beetle
bereaved
betwixt
brethren
caboose
caldron
cathedral
census
challenge
camomile
champion
chariot
chastise
chicory
Chinese
circular
clayey
collapse
colonel
colonial
coolly
congregate
convenient
conveys
cowardice
crocodile
crucify
cruet
cruise
customary
cutlery
decease
decayed
defiant
defraud
delaine
delegate
delicious
denial
denounce
describe
desperate
destitute
dial
dialogue
diamond
diary
dictionary
diligent
disguise
dissolve
distinct
divorce
docile
dolphin
domestic
domicile
drizzle
economy
edifice
efficient
encroach
engineer
entwine
envelope
essential
Europe
excavate
expense
extreme
falcon
features
feigned
feminine
fidgety
flattery
footwear
forbade
forcible
foreign
fractions
fracture
fragile
frolics
fugitive
funnel
genuine
geography
gesture
gigantic
gluey
glycerine
gopher
gorilla
granary
grateful
grievous
grooved
guiltily
guinea
guitar
halfpenny
hallowed
harmony
hearken
hearth
heartiness
heathen
hedgehog
heifer
herrings
hallo
homestead
hose-reel
humility
illustrate
imaginary
immerse
industrial
initial
injurious
innings
insolent
instinct
interred
interrupt
introduce
irritate
isthmus
italics
Japanese
jaunty
jealous
kangaroo
lenient
leopard
loyalty
luscious
lustrous
mackerel
mahogany
maimed
majestic
mallet
mandolin
marmalade
martial
masculine
massive
mattress
mauve
messenger
military
miracles
mullein
navigate
nozzle
numeral
obstacles
occasion
ochre
omnibus
oppress
overseer
pacify
palate
palings
parable
paradise
particles
partition
partridge
passenger
patriot
patronize
penance
peninsula
penitent
perjury
permanent
persuade
petition
phlegm
photograph
pickerel
pilot
pioneer
pinafore
porcelain
positive
prairies
precipice
president
pressure
previous
probable
proverb
psalm
pshaw
pumice
pyramid
quoits
quoting
rat-trap
rebate
recruit
reduction
referred
refrain
regiment
reject
release
reliance
religion
resign
revenge
reverent
reverse
romance
route
rummage
rumor
russet
sacrifice
saffron
sanitary
scabbard
scalawag
scandal
scoundrel
scripture
seamstress
semicolon
sentinel
service
sewer
shrewd
shrilly
signify
singular
slaughter
solar
solitary
sorcery
sorrel
sovereign
specify
spectacle
spinach
squeamish
stanza
stirrup
strangle
strolling
structure
sturgeon
subdue
subscribe
suburbs
sufficient
suffocate
suggest
summary
supreme
surged
surgeon
surrender
survive
suspense
suspicious
syllable
sympathy
swath
swollen
tactful
tapioca
tendency
tenement
terrace
territory
theatre
thorough
thwart
tomahawk
torture
tortoise
tourist
treacle
trivial
trophy
tropics
tunnel
turnstile
twopence
typhoid
tyrant
unicorn
upbraid
vaccinate
vagabond
valentine
vanilla
vapor
velvety
vengeance
ventilate
veranda
verbal
verdant
vigor
volunteer
weapon
weasel
wherefore
wherever
wholesome
wondrous
woolly
yacht
zealous

PRONOUNCE.

NOTE.--See that the italicized letters are distinctly pronounced.

ally, al-lī´
arctic, är_k_´tik
area, ā´rēa
asphalt, as-falt´
avenue, av´e-nū
almond, ä´mund
balsam, ba̤l´sam
barren, bar´en
because, bē-ca̤z´
beneath, bē-nēth´
breadth, bre_d_th
brethren, breTH´-_ren_
bristle, bris´l
barrel, bar´el
castle, kas´l
cemetery, cem´-ē-ter-y
chimney, chim´ni
clothes, klōTHz
collie, kol´i
column, kol´um
depths, dep_th_s
donkey, dong´ki
drought, drowt
eleven, ē-lev´-n
English, ing-glish
errand, er-ran_d_
February, Feb´rṳ-a-ry
flannel, flan´el
follow, fol´lō
foundry, foun´-dri
friends, fren_d_s
figure, fig-ūr
forbade, for-bad´
glisten, glis´n
greasy, grē´zi
genuine, jen´ū-in
height, hī_t_´
hearth, härth
heroine, her´ō-in
history, his´-to-ry
instead, in-st_e_d´
kettle, ket-l
kiln, kil
launch, länsh
leisure, lē´zhūr
lettuce, let´is
livery, liv´er-i
minute, mi-nūt´ _adj._
mouths, mouTHz
nephew, ne_v_´ū
nothing, nuth´-ing
peony, pē´ō-ni
perhaps, pėr haps´
pumpkin, pum_p_´-kin
princess, prin´-ses
really, rē´al-li
recess, rē ses´
recipe, res´i-pe
respite, res´-pit
ruffian, ruf´_i_-an
ru´-in, rö´in
saliva, sa-lī´va
several, sev´ėr-al
shriek, s_h_rēk
shrill, s_h_ril
slaked, slāked
soften, sof´n
solder, sol´dėr
sterile, ster´il
strength, stren_g_th
stupid, stū´pid
toward, tō´ėrd
Tuesday, t_ū_z´dā
turnip, tėr´nip
violet, v_ī_´-ō-let

Fāte, fa̤ll, fär, fat; mē, met, hėr; pīne, pin; nōte, not, möve;
tūbe, tub, bṳll; TH, _th_en; th, _th_in.

STANDARD IV. SENIOR.

GRADE 7.

typical
renewal
magical
chemical
botanical
valiant
hydrant
indignant
stimulant
luxuriant
assailant
occupant
incessant
applicant
consonant
cereals
alleged
civilian
secluded
abominate

Join --al to comic, logic, cubic, sign, brute, recite, remove,
arrive.

The applicant made indignant denial of his alleged scheming. The occupants of the secluded domicile gambled incessantly. A valiant civilian shielded a mulatto from a brutal assailant. Our fertile prairies yield a luxuriant growth of cereals. Chemical changes appear almost magical. The rector abominates the use of whisky or like stimulants. The city's hydrants need renewal. With breech-loading rifles we defended breaches in the rampart.

miscreant
intolerant
mendicant
immigrant
descendant
critical
tragical
physical
identical
fanatical
prodigal
cannibal
acquittal
occasional
economical
incite
censure
beseech
stalwart
lieutenant

Add --ant to account, assist, claim, defend, attend, repent, depend.

His descendants were prodigal, not economical. Finally they became mere mendicants. Immigrants are intolerant of even occasional censures. The lieutenant was critical of his recruit's physical courage. A stalwart miscreant accused of cannibal practices secured acquittal. Another tragical scene occurred at that identical spot. Pontiac readily incited the fanatical Indians to revolt. An adept in botanical lore went on a canoeing trip. Lye for cleansing woollen shawls has lain here for eight weeks. A mere mite of a bugler moaned beseechingly for a draught of water.

raiment
adjacent
reticent
opponent
diffident
indulgent
competent
consistent
provident
permanent
marvel
sequel
infidel
citadel
trammel
gibbet
penitent
obligation
protector
antiquated

Write --ent with differ, insist, confide, reside, provide, compete.

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