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hold? to occupy? 4. How does be in possession compare with possess? 5. How does own compare with
possess or with be in possession? 6. What is the difference between the statement that a man has reason, and
the statement that he is in possession of his reason?
EXAMPLES.
Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I ---- is thine.
I earnestly entreat you, for your own sakes, to ---- yourselves of solid reasons.
He occupies the house, but does not ---- it.
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HAZARD (page 194).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of hazard? 2. How does hazard compare with danger? 3. How do risk and venture
compare with chance and hazard, and with each other? 4. How do accident and casualty differ? 5. What is a
contingency?
EXAMPLES.
We must take the current when it serves or lose our ----.
I have set my life upon a cast, and I will stand the ---- of the die.
There is no ---- in doing known duty.
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Do you think it necessary to provide for every ---- before taking the first step?
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HEALTHY (page 195).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of healthy? of healthful? Are the words properly interchangeable? 2. What are the
chief synonyms of healthy? of healthful? 3. In what sense is salubrious used, and to what is it applied? 4. To
what realm does salutary belong?
EXAMPLES.
In books, or work, or ---- play let my first years be passed.
Blessed is the ---- nature; it is the coherent, sweetly cooperative, not the self-distracting one.
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HELP (page 195).
QUESTIONS.
1. Is help or aid the stronger term? 2. Which is used in excitement or emergency? 3. Does help include aid or
does aid include help? 4. Which implies the seconding of another's exertions? Do we aid or help the helpless?
5. How do cooperate and assist differ? 6. To what do encourage and uphold refer? succor and support?
EXAMPLES.
He does not prevent a crime when he can ---- it.
Know then whatever cheerful and serene ---- the mind ---- the body too.
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HERETIC (page 196).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a heretic? a schismatic? 2. In what does a heretic differ from his church or religious body? a
schismatic? 3. How do a heretic and a schismatic often differ in action? 4. How are the terms dissenter and
non-conformist usually applied?
EXAMPLES.
A man that is an ----, after the first and second admonition, reject.
Churchmen and ---- alike resisted the tyranny of James II.
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HETEROGENEOUS (page 196).
QUESTIONS.
1. When are substances heterogeneous as regards each other? 2. When is a mixture, as cement, said to be
heterogeneous? when homogeneous? 3. What is the special significance of non-homogeneous? 4. How does
miscellaneous differ from heterogeneous?
EXAMPLES.
My second son received a sort of ---- education at home.
Courtier and patriot can not mix Their ---- politics Without an effervescence.
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HIDE (page 197).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which is the most general term of this group, and what does it signify? 2. Is an object hidden by intention,
or in what other way or ways, if any? 3. Does conceal evince intention? 4. How does secrete compare with