Blaze, glare, glow, flare

1. The sun _________ down upon them with a crushing violence (Forester). 2. He lighted a cigarette and then remembered that the _________ of the match could probably be seen from the station (Anderson). 3. He lets the fire _________ on the sullen face for a moment, and it sears itself into the memory forever (Lowell). 4. The fire that burned within him, that _________ with so strange and marvelous radiance in almost all he wrote (Huxley).

Marvel, miracle, wonder

1. Chinese painters are not absorbed in expressing their sensuous delight in the _________ and glory of the world (Binyon). 2. The Roman army was still strong, and was to remain for centuries one of the _________ of the world (Buchan). 3. It was a _________ of rare device,
a sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice! (Coleridge).

Allure, attract, bewitch, charm, fascinate

1. …talking, in that beautiful voice which made everything she said sound like a caress, to Papa, who had begun to be _________ rather against his will (Woolf). 2.The prospect of an interesting, vivid life _________ many young women to the big cities (Ascham). 3. Cyril, having taken a fancy to his brilliant aunt, had tried to _________ her as he seldom or never tried to _________ his mother (Bennett). 4. The younger and weaker man was _________ and helpless before the creeping approach of so monstrous a wrath (Brown). 5.Heavens grant that Warwick’s words _________ him not! (Shakespeare).