"The Century Vocabulary Builder"
A mercantile
treaty.
This pavilion was the common play-house for the
children of the neighborhood. Ward and Aker held this property as their
mutual possession.
This addition is the complement of our
quota. He paid his dancing partner a compliment.
His downrightness is the complement of his
uprightness. As a supplement to his wages he received an occasional bonus.
He put in the completing touches. He had finished
the task.
His composure was not to be shaken. After
this inner tumult came equanimity.
Numbers of such magnitude are
scarcely comprehensible. That men by the million should die for a cause is
a thing not really comprehensive.
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.
I congratulated my friend on his
appointment to the commission. I also felicitated the stranger on his
appointment.
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