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.

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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.

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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.

[STANDARD IV. Junior.]GRADE 6.

[STANDARD IV. Junior.]
GRADE 6.