be used is in black-faced type at the beginning of
each group:_

1. BEGIN. He ---- to act at once. The reports ---- to disturb
him a little. He has ---- to feel hurt over them.
2. BID. The proprietor ---- us a pleasant good day. No matter
how much he ---- the auctioneer will not hear him. We were
---- to enter.
3. BLOW. The cornetist ---- with all his might. The ship was
---- about all day. The wind does ---- terrifically sometimes.
It may ---- to-night. The wind ---- all last night.
4. BREAK. He fell and ---- his leg. It is well that his neck
was not ----.
5. BURST. During the battle the shells frequently ---- right
over us. Oaken casks have often ----.
6. CHIDE. He ---- us frequently about our actions. He was
never ---- himself.
7. CHOOSE. They ---- him president. They have ---- wisely.
8. COME. He ---- at nine to-day. He has always ---- earlier
heretofore. Let him ---- when he wishes.
9. DEAL. Before explaining the game, he ---- out the cards.
10. DIVE. Twice last summer he ---- off the bridge.
11. DO. Thou canst not say I ---- it. He often ---- it.
12. DRAW. The picture was ---- by a famous artist. He formerly
---- very well, but I think that now he ---- very poorly.
13. DRIVE. The horse was ---- twenty miles. He almost ----
it to death.
14. EAT. He ---- everything which the others had not ----.
How can he ---- that?
15. FLEE. Since the cashier has ----, they think that a warrant
would be useless.
16. FLY. The air-ship ---- three hundred miles on its first trip.
That it has ---- so far is sufficient proof of its success.
17. FORSAKE. He ---- his new friends just as he had ---- all the
others.
18. FREEZE. The man was ---- stiff. He evidently ---- to death
so easily because he had been so long without food.
19. GIVE. She was not ---- as much as her sisters. Her father
---- her less because of her extravagance. But, he now ----
her enough to make it up.
20. GO. She ---- to school to-day. She ---- yesterday. She has
---- every day this month.
21. KNOW. He ---- that he cannot live. As long as I have
---- him, this is the first time I ever ---- he was married.
22. MEAN. He ---- to do right, and has always ---- to do so.
23. RIDE. They ---- as if they had ---- a long distance. They
say that they ---- from Larimer this morning.
24. PLEAD. The mother ---- an hour for her son's li