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exorbitance? 4. What kind of excess do overplus and superabundance denote? lavishness and profusion? 5. Is
surplus used in the favorable or unfavorable sense? 6. To what do redundance and redundancy chiefly refer?
7. What words are used as synonyms of excess in the moral sense?
EXAMPLES.
Saving requires self-denial, and ---- is the death of self-denial.
Where there is great ---- there usually follows corresponding ----.
---- of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Haste brings ----, and ---- brings want.
The ---- of the demand caused unfeigned surprise.
More of the present woes of the world are due to ---- than to any other single cause.
---- of language often weakens the impression of what would be impressive in sober statement.
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EXECUTE (page 161).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of execute? of administer? of enforce? 2. How are the words applied in special cases?
Give instances. 3. What secondary meaning has administer?
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EXAMPLES.
It is the place of the civil magistrate to ---- the laws.
The pasha gave a signal and three attendants seized the culprit, and promptly ---- the bastinado.
I can not illustrate a moral duty without at the same time ----ing a precept of our religion.
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EXERCISE (page 162).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of exercise apart from all qualifying words? 2. How does exercise in that sense differ
from exertion? 3. How may exercise be brought up to the full meaning of exertion? 4. What is practise? How
does it differ from exercise? 5. How is practise discriminated from such theory or profession? 6. What is
drill?
EXAMPLES.
Regular ---- tends to keep body and mind in the best working order.
---- in time becomes second nature.
By constant ---- the most difficult feats may be done with no apparent ----.
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EXPENSE (page 162).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is cost? expense? 2. How are these words now commonly differentiated? 3. What is the meaning of
outlay? of outgo?
EXAMPLES.
Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the ----, whether he have
sufficient to finish it.
The entire receipts have not equaled the ----.
When the ---- is more than the income, if the income can not be increased, it becomes an absolute necessity to
reduce the ----.
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EXPLICIT (page 162).
QUESTIONS.
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1. To what are explicit and express alike opposed? 2. How do the two words differ from each other?
EXAMPLES.
I came here at this critical juncture by the ---- order of Sir John St. Clare.
The language of the proposition was too ---- to admit of doubt.
Now the Spirit speaketh ----ly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith.
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EXTEMPORANEOUS (page 163).
QUESTIONS.
1. What did extemporaneous originally mean? 2. What has it now come to signify in common use? 3. What is
the original meaning of impromptu? The present meaning? 4. How does the impromptu remark often differ
from the extemporaneous? 5. How does unpremeditated compare with the words above mentioned?
EXAMPLES.
In ---- prayer, what men most admire, God least regardeth.
As a speaker, he excelled in ---- address, while his opponent was at a loss to answer him because not gifted in
the same way.
No more on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled light as lark at morn, And poured to lord and lady gay The
---- lay.
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EXTERMINATE (page 163).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation, and what is the original meaning of exterminate? eradicate? extirpate? 2. To what
are these words severally applied?
EXAMPLES.
Since the building of the Pacific railroads in the United States, the buffalo has been quite ----.
The evil of intemperance is one exceedingly difficult to ----.
No inveterate improver should ever tempt me to ---- the dandelions from the green carpet of my lawn.
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FAINT (page 164).
QUESTIONS.
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1. What are the chief meanings of faint? 2. How is faint a synonym of feeble or purposeless? of irresolute or
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