| A | B |
|---|
| ability | power or knowledge |
| ability | skill |
| amiable | friendly |
| amiable | good natured and pleasant |
| bliss | complete joy or happiness |
| blissful | very happy |
| blissful | joyful |
| caress | a tender or loving touch or hug |
| caresses | tender or loving touches or hugs |
| clutch | to grasp or hold tightly to |
| coax | to persuade or urge in a gentle way |
| fury | intense anger |
| furious | extremely angry |
| fury | wild and uncontrolled force |
| gesture | a movement of the arm or hand |
| gesture | something done to show one’s feelings |
| gesture | to make a movement of the arm or hand |
| mope | to be sad and gloomy |
| mope | to lose interest in the things that usually bring pleasure |
| amiability | a noun that means the trait of being friendly or good-natured |
| blissfulness | the feeling of being joyful |
| clutch | You must step on the ______ in your car before you change gears. |
| caress | The mother caressed the baby’s forehead gently as it lay sleeping. |
| coax | The boy was trying to ______ his parents into buying him an ice cream. |
| prefer | to like better |
| prefer | to choose first |
| prefer | Do your ______ red or blue? |
| preference | that which is preferred |
| recover | to get back to a normal state |
| recover | to get well again |
| recovered | She soon ______ from her illness. |
| recovered | to get back what was lost or stolen |
| recovery | the act of getting back what was lost or stolen |
| recovery | the process of getting well again |
| replace | to take the place of |
| replaced | That dead light bulb needs to be ______. |
| replacement | a person or thing that takes the place of another |
| replaced | Returned library books are ______ in their proper spot on the shelf. |
| replacement | You need to buy a ______ for that dead light bulb. |
| request | to ask for |
| requested | I ______ carrot cake for my birthday. |
| request | the thing asked for |
| request | We made a ______ that the band play our favorite song. |
| separate | to set or keep apart |
| separate | not together |
| separate | not joined |
| shun | to take special pains to avoid |
| shun | to keep away from |
| shun | George stopped bullying his classmates when they began to ______ him. |
