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Practical Exercises in English by Huber Gray Buehler
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deep glens.
24. My old position offered no hope of ----.
25. His hopes of ---- in England failing, Swift returned to Ireland.

ALLUSION, ILLUSION, DELUSION.
26. There were two ----s in his sermon to the riots.
27. The cleverest, acutest men are often under an (a) ---- about women.
28. Longfellow's "Footsteps of Angels" contains ----s to the death
of his wife.
29. Our judgment of people is liable to be warped by ----s of the
imagination.
30. Those other words of ---- and folly, Liberty first and Union afterward.

AVOCATION, VOCATION.
31. Surgeons in the army are allowed by the enemy to pursue their ----
unmolested.
32. The young lawyer, surrounded by his law-books, took up his ---- with
enthusiasm.
33. Let your base-ball be a pastime, not a trade; let it be your ----, not
your ----.
34. Heaven is a pious man's ----, and therefore he counts earthly
employments ----s.
35. It seems that after his return, his disciples left him and returned to
their ordinary ----s.

COMPLETION, COMPLETENESS.
36. The ---- of the railroad was celebrated by a general illumination in
the village.
37. The comfort of passengers is secured by the ---- of the equipment of
the steamers of this line.
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