<Ardor, fervor>. The ____ of the worshipers. The ____ of the soldiers.
<Artist, artisan>. The ____ who was decorating the walls called to an ____ who was mixing mortar.
<Ascent, ascension>. We easily made the ____ of the slope, and from the summit witnessed the balloon ____.
<Ascent, assent.> He gave his ____ when I proposed that we wait for the others to complete the ____ to this point.
<Ascribe, impute.> I ____ it to you as a fault rather than ____ it to you as an honor.
<Assembly, assemblage.> It was an informal ____. The ____ considered the matters it had been called to discuss.
<Assent, consent.> When told that the measure would advance his interests, he ____; but he would not ____ to it.
<Avenge, revenge.> The injury was slight, but he ____ it with unsparing malice. "____, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints."
<Avocation, vocation.> The lawyer, besides his regular ____, had the collecting of birds' eggs as his ____.
<Aware, conscious.> Though not ____ of the seriousness of his malady, he was ____ of the pain it caused him.