<Broad, wide.> A man with ____ shoulders stood in the ____, open
doorway.

<Bury, inter.> After they had solemnly ____ their comrade, they ____
the treasure. They also ____ their comrade's dog.

2. Consult the dictionary for the distinction between the members of each
of the following pairs. Determine whether the words are correctly used in
the illustrative sentences. (Some are; some are not.)

<Can, may.> Can I stay at home this afternoon, papa? Because of the
floods, the train beyond doubt may not get through.

<Character, reputation.> His character among them was very good. A
man's reputation can never be taken from him.

<Childish, childlike.> Your conduct is peevish; it is childishly so.
Her innocence was childlike.

<Cite, quote.> He was always citing snatches of Tennyson. We might
quote Hamlet's soliloquy on suicide as an example of Shakespeare's ability
to go to the heart of deep questions.

<Claim, assert.> He claimed that Jefferson was our third President.
He asserted that bears sleep through the winter.

<Clothing, costume.> At the masquerade ball we each wore special
clothing. The mariner who had swum from the wreck to the desert shore had
not a shred of costume.

<Comfort, ease.> Comfort after labor. The case of owning a home.

<Commercial, mercantile.> Petty commercial transactions. A mercantile
treaty.

<Common, mutual.> This pavilion was the common play-house for the
children of the neighborhood. Ward and Aker held this property as their
mutual possession.

<Complement, compliment.> This addition is the complement of our
quota. He paid his dancing partner a compliment.

<Complement, supplement.> His downrightness is the complement of his
uprightness. As a supplement to his wages he received an occasional bonus.

<Complete, finish.> He put in the completing touches. He had finished
the task.

<Composure, equanimity.> His composure was not to be shaken. After
this inner tumult came equanimity.

<Comprehensible, comprehensive.> Numbers of such magnitude are
scarcely comprehensible. That men by the million should die for a cause is
a thing not really comprehensive.

<Compulsion, obligation.> Who does not feel within him a compulsion
to help the weak? It was through obligation, through having slave-drivers
stand over them, that these wretched folk built the pyramids.

<Congratulate, felicitate.> I congratulated my friend on his
appointment to the commission. I also felicitated the st