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rate word; find the word's original signification, its present signification. Add to each word-group as many cognate words as you can (1) think of for yourself, (2) find in the dictionary by looking under the key-syllable. Fill the blanks in the sentences after each word-group with terms chosen from the first section of words in that group. (1) Animosity, unanimous, magnanimity; (2) animate, animadvert, equanimity. _Sentences_: It was the ____ opinion that to so noble a foe ____ should be shown. The spiteful man continued to display his ____. (1) Annual, annuity, anniversary, perennial, centennial, solemn; (2) superannuate, biennial, millennium. _Sentences_: The amateur gardener made the ____ discovery that the plant was a ____. The ____ celebration of the great man's birth took a ____ and imposing form in our city. By a happy coincidence the increase in his ____ came on wedding ____. (1) Audit, auditor, auditorium, audience, inaudible, obey; (2) aurist, auricular, auscultation. _Sentences_: His voice may not have been ____, but it certainly did not fill the ____. Not one ____ in all that vast ____ but was willing to ____ his slightest suggestion. He was not willing that they should ____ his accounts. (1) Automatic, automobile, autocrat, autobiography; (2) autograph, autonomy. _Sentences_: The ____ dictated to his secretary the third chapter of his ____. The habit of changing gear properly in an ____ becomes almost ____. (1) Cant, descant, incantation, chant, enchant, chanticleer, accent, incentive; (2) canto, canticle, cantata, recant, chantry, chanson, precentor. _Sentences_: He ____ upon this topic in a queer, foreign ____. Such utterances are mere sanctimonious ____; I had rather listen to the ____ of a voodoo conjurer. The little girl from the city was ____ with the crowing of ____. The ____ of the choir somehow gave him the ____ to try again. (1) Cent, per cent, century, centennial; (2) centenary, centime, centurion, centimeter, centigrade. _Sentences_: For nearly a ____ this family has been living on a small ____ of its income. I wouldn't give a ____ for ____ honors; I want my reward now. (1) Chronic, chronological, chronicle; (2) chronometer, synchronize, anachronism. _Sentences_: It is a ____ record of changing activities and ____ ills. This page is a ____ of athletic news. (1) Corps, corpse, corporal, corpulent, corporation, incorporate; (2) corpus, habeas
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