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.

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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.