Practical Exercises in English Part 29

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 friends.h.i.+p.

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.