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EXERCISE 266.

con' jure, to practice sorcery. con jūre', to enjoin solemnly. com post, mixture for ma

nure.

con serve, a sweatmeat. con sort, a wife or husband. con test, a strife; struggle. con tract, a bargain. con trast, opposition. con vent, cloister. con verse, discourse. con vert, one converted. con vict, one found guilty. con voy, an escort for defense.

com pōst, to manure with compost.

con sẽrve, to preserve. con sôrt, to associate; unite. con test, to contend. con tract, to draw together. con trast, to put in contrast. con vent, to meet together. con verse, to talk with. con vert, to turn; to change. con vict, to prove one guilty. con voy, to escort for defense.

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EXERCISE 272.

coun' ter-månd, a contrary order.
coun ter-mand', to revoke a command.

in' ter dict, a prohibiting order; prohibition.
in ter dict', to forbid by order; to prohibit.
ō' ver tûrn, act of overturning; overthrow.
o ver tûrn', to turn over; to overset; subvert.
rep'ri mănd, rebuke; severe reproof.

rep ri mand', to rebuke; to reprove severely.
at' tri bute, peculiar property; quality.
at tribute, to impute; to assign; to ascribe to.
mis con' duct, wrong conduct; ill-behavior.
mis con duct', to conduct amiss; to mismanage.

SECTION XII.

Words changed from nouns or adjectives, into verbs, by a change in pronunciation, in spelling, or in both.

EXERCISE 273.

close (cloce), shut up; tight.
grease, animal fat.
house, place of residence.
mouse, a rodent animal.
glass, transparent substance.
brass, alloy of copper and zinc.
grass, herbage.

use, act of employing.
prīce, value.

rise, ascent; increase. life, existence.

wife, a married woman.

grief, sorrow.
proof, test; evidence.
thief, one that steals.

{closşe (cloze), to shut up.
grease, to smear with fat.
house, to shelter.
mouse, to catch mice.
glāze, to work with glass.
braze, to solder with brass.
graze, to eat grass.
ūşe, to employ.

prīze, to set a value on.
rişe, to ascend; increase.
live, to exist.

wīve, to take for a wife.
grieve, to sorrow.
prove, to test; to verify.
thieve, to steal.

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SECTION XIII.

VARIABLE USAGE.

This Section is designed to bring under view certain words and classes of words, in respect to which usage is variable, and which are not elsewhere specially noticed in this work.

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*These five are often improperly written without the i, as villany. The spelling with t is the preferable one in each of these cases. Written also with c, as defence, though never in the derivatives. § Often, though against analogy, written wo without the e, and, in the derivatives, almost always so.

Very often written drouth and hight by the best authorities.

As a verb, practice is mostly written with s, as practise. This difference between the noun and the verb is properly retained only where the final syllable is under the accent, as in device, devise. See Exercise 275.

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