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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.