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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.