1
halve
salve
salmon
almonds
quality
quantity
squander
squabble
tenant
vacant
gallant
remnant
balance
distance
instance
substance
Add --ing to lose, line, lace, pare, idle, leave, ache; as, losing.
Apply salve to the gallant soldier's sore eyes. He halved the citron
in an instant. Divide the almonds. Don't squander your substance
or earnings. Our tenants paid the balance due. The cottage is some
distance off. Squabbling, for instance, hinders quiet work. The
remnant of the serge is of choice quality. Great quantities of salmon
are caught in the Fraser.
2
ulcer
cancer
grocer
officer
famine
imagine
heroine
medicine
primary
library
contrary
burglary
guidance
grievance
entrance
hindrance
Add mis-- to step, state, spell, spend, sent, shaped; as, misstep.
A primary pupil's guidance was welcome. The burglary at the grocer's
puzzles me. A narrow, misshapen entrance to the library will prove
a serious hindrance. Contrary to orders, the officer misspent the
money. He gulped a dose of acid medicine. Don't misspell common
words. She imagines herself a heroine. The India famine. The knight's
grievance. Cancers and ulcers are diseased growths.
3
altar
almanac
alderman
balcony
warrior
warrant
warfare
war-whoop
alms
isles
phases
phrases
tedious
various
bilious
studious
Add --ing, --es, and --ed to empty, reply, marry, bury, study,
supply, defy, satisfy; as, emptying, empties, emptied.
The warrior knelt at the altar. The tedious warfare had wearied
him. The almanac foretells the moon's various phases. What ails the
studious scholar on the balcony? Merely a bilious headache. I bade
him total the column. I'm satisfied with the supplies. Phrases are
not sentences. Isles in the ocean. An Indian's war-whoop. Elect an
alderman. Asking alms is begging.
4
fertile
sterile
hostile
reptile
badger
cudgel
burrow
burial
merely
anxiety
nuisance
riddance
lattice
poultice
crevice
liquorice
Join --ing to upset, begin, forget, omit, prefer; as, upsetting.
Poultice your sore throat. Liquorice relieves a cough. I ate oyster
patties. Huge ants crept through the crevice. Alter the lattice
porch. His enemies, trudging along with heavy cudgels, looked very
hostile. He brews ale or beer from malt. The soil is not fertile,
but sterile, fit merely for a burial ground. I relieved a lawyer's
anxiety about his collie. Are lizards reptiles? We made a riddance of
the badgers. Their burrows were a nuisance.
5
honest
exhort
exhibit
exhaust
stomach
monarch
vinegar
vineyard
plumage
foliage
drainage
advantage
barrier
carrier
terrier
furrier
Put dis-- before honest, loyal, proved, agreed, lodge, quiet,
honor, credit, figure, own; as, dishonest.
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.