ed dollars,
4. The class ---- informed the faculty of their desire.
SUSPECT, EXPECT. _Suspect_ means _to mistrust. Expect_ means _to
look forward to_.
1. I ---- that he will come.
2. He ---- his brother of hiding his coat.
3. When do you ---- to finish the work?
4. The man was never before ---- of having done wrong.
TEACH, LEARN. See Glossary under _learn_.
1. You must ---- him to be careful.
2. He must ---- to be careful.
3. To ---- a class to study is a difficult task.
4. Who ---- your class to-day.
TRANSPIRE, HAPPEN. _Transpire_ does not mean _to happen_. It means
_to become gradually known, to leak out_.
1. She knows everything that ---- in the village.
2. It ---- that he had secretly sold the farm.
3. No more important event than this has ---- in the last ten years.
4. It has now ---- that some money was stolen.
QUITE, VERY. _Quite_ is not in good use in the sense of _very_ or
_to a great degree_. It properly means _entirely_.
1. The book is ---- easy to study.
2. Have you ---- finished your work.
3. The train ran ---- slowly for most of the distance.
4. That is ---- easy to do.
5. We were ---- unable to reach the city any sooner.
EXERCISE 80
_The following list includes some groups of words that are often
confused. Far the proper meaning of the words refer to a good
dictionary. Write sentences using the words in their proper senses:_
practical, skilled sensible, sensitive
couple, two access, accession
future, subsequent allusion, illusion, delusion
folk, family conscience, consciousness
evidence, testimony identity, identification
party, person, firm limit, limitation
plenty, many, enough of majority, plurality
portion, part materialize, appear
solicitation, solicitude invent, discover
human, humane prescribe, proscribe
bound, determined some, somewhat, something
fix, mend mutual, common
foot, pay noted, notorious
creditable, credible wait for, wait on
exceptionable, exceptional in, into
EXERCISE 81
_Show how the use of each of the two italicized words in the following
sentences would affect the meaning of the sentence:_
1. We experienced a _succession series_ of hindrances.
2. That _statement assertion_ was made by an eye wi
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