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friendliness? 3. What is the meaning of comity and amity? 4. How does friendship differ from love?
EXAMPLES.
Talk not of wasted ----, ---- never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to
their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment.
----, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the
lower world denied.
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FRIGHTEN (page 180).
QUESTIONS.
1. By what is one frightened? by what intimidated? 2. What is it to browbeat or cow? 3. What is it to scare or
terrify?
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EXAMPLES.
The child was ---- by the stories the nurse told.
The loud, loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep-- Shake the firm nerve, ---- the bravest soul!
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FRUGALITY (page 180).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is economy? 2. What is frugality? 3. What is parsimony? How does it compare with frugality? What
is the motive of parsimony? 4. What is miserliness? 5. What is the special characteristic of prudence and
providence? of thrift? 6. What is the motive of economy?
EXAMPLES.
There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising, increase of ---- in laying out.
By close ---- the little home was at last paid for and there was a great thanksgiving time.
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GARRULOUS (page 181).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does garrulous signify? chattering? 2. How do talkative and loquacious differ from garrulous, and
from each other? 3. What is the special application of verbose?
EXAMPLES.
To tame a shrew, and charm her ---- tongue.
Guard against a feeble fluency, a ---- prosiness, a facility of saying nothing.
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GENDER (page 181).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is sex? 2. To what beings only does sex apply? 3. What is gender? To what does it apply? Do the
distinctions of gender correspond to the distinctions of sex? Give examples of languages containing three
genders, and of the classification in languages containing but two.
EXAMPLES.
The maternal relation naturally and necessarily divides the work of the ----s giving to woman the indoor life,
and to man, the work of the outer world.
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While in French every word is either of the masculine or feminine ----, the language sometimes fails for that
very reason to indicate the ---- of some person referred to.
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GENERAL (page 181).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does general signify? 2. How does general compare with universal? with common? 3. What
illustrations of the differences are given in the text?
EXAMPLES.
---- friendships will admit of division, one may love the beauty of this, the good humor of that person, ... and
so on.
A ---- feeling of unrest prevailed.
Death comes to all by ---- law.
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GENEROUS (page 182).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the primary meaning of generous? the common meaning? 2. How does generous differ from
liberal? 3. What is the distinctive sense of munificent? 4. What does munificent tell of the motive or spirit of
the giver? What does generous tell? 5. How does disinterested compare with generous? 6. What is the
distinctive meaning of magnanimous? How does it differ from generous as regards dealing with insults or
injuries?
EXAMPLES.
To cunning men I will be very kind; and ---- To mine own children, in good bringing up.
A ---- friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
The conqueror proved as ---- in victory as he was terrible in battle.
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GENIUS (page 183).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is genius? 2. What is talent? 3. Which is the higher quality? 4. Which is the more dependent upon
training?
EXAMPLES.
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The eternal Master found His single ---- well employ'd.
No great ---- was ever without some mixture of madness.
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GET (page 183).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a person said to get? 2. How is get related to expectation or desire? How is gain related to those
words? 3. By what processes does one acquire? Is the thing acquired sought or desired, or not? 4. What does
one earn? 5. Does a person always get what he earns or always earn what he gets? 6. What does obtain
imply? Is the thing one obtains an object of desire? How does obtain differ from get? 7. What does win
imply? How is one said to win a suit at law? What is the correct term in legal phrase? Why? 8. By what
special element does procure differ from obtain? 9. What is especially implied in secure?
EXAMPLES.
He ---- a living as umbrella mender but a poor living it is.
---- wisdom and with all thy getting, ---- understanding.
In the strange city he found that all his learning would not ---- him a dinner.
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GIFT (page 184).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a gift? Is gift used in the good or the bad sense? Does the legal agree with the popular sense? 2.
What synonymous word is always used in the evil sense? 3. What is a benefaction? a donation? What
difference of usage is recognized between the two words? 4. What is a gratuity, and to whom given? 5. What
is the sense and use of largess? 6. What is a present, and to whom given? 7. What is the special sense of