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sanctimoniousness? 4. What is pietism? formalism? sham? 5. How does affectation compare with hypocrisy?
EXAMPLES.
Let not the Trojans, with a feigned ---- of proffered peace, delude the Latian prince.
---- is a fawning and flexible art, which accommodates itself to human feelings, and flatters the weakness of
men in order that it may gain its own ends.
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HYPOCRITE (page 204).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is hypocrite derived? What is its primary meaning? 2. What common term includes the
other words of the group? 3. How are hypocrite and dissembler contrasted with each other? 4. What element is
common to the cheat and the impostor? How do the two compare with each other?
EXAMPLES.
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It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest ----.
I dare swear he is no ---- but prays from his heart.
In the reign of Henry VII., an ----, named Perkin Warbeck, laid claim to the English crown.
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HYPOTHESIS (page 205).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a hypothesis? What is its use in scientific investigation and study? 2. What is a guess? a conjecture?
a supposition? a surmise? 3. What implication does surmise ordinarily convey? What is a theory? a scheme? a
speculation? How do they differ?
EXAMPLES.
----, fancies, built on nothing firm.
There are no other limits to ---- than those of the human mind.
The development ----, tho widely accepted by men of science fails of proof at many important points.
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IDEA (page 206).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is idea derived, and what did it originally mean? 2. What did idea signify in early
philosophical use? 3. What is its present popular use, and with what words is it now synonymous?
EXAMPLES.
All rests with those who read. A work or ---- Is what each makes it to himself.
He who comes up to his own ---- of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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IDEAL (page 206).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an ideal? 2. What is an archetype? a prototype? 3. Can a prototype be equivalent to an archetype?
4. Is an ideal primal, or the result of development? 5. What is an original? 6. What is the standard? How does
it compare with the ideal? 7. How are idea and ideal contrasted?
EXAMPLES.
Be a ---- to others and then all will go well.
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The mind's the ---- of the man.
Every man has at times in his mind the ---- of what he should be, but is not.
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IDIOCY (page 207).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is idiocy? 2. What is imbecility? How does it compare with idiocy? 3. How does insanity differ from
idiocy or imbecility? 4. How do folly and foolishness compare with idiocy? 5. What is fatuity? stupidity?
EXAMPLES.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis ---- to be wise.
To expect an effect without a cause, or attainment without application, is little less than ----.
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IDLE (page 208).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is idle derived, and what is its original meaning? 2. What does idle in present use
properly denote? Does it necessarily denote the absence of all action? 3. What does lazy signify? How does it
differ from idle? 4. What does inert signify? sluggish? 5. In what realm does slothful belong, and what does it
denote? 6. How does indolent compare with slothful?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- stream was covered with a green scum.
Never ---- a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the ---- turn upon his bed.
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IGNORANT (page 208).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does ignorant signify? How wide is its range? 2. What is the meaning of illiterate? 3. How does