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insolence? 3. What is officiousness? 4. What does rudeness suggest?
EXAMPLES.
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With matchless ---- they style a wife The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life.
It is better not to turn friendship into a system of lawful and unpunishable ----.
A certain class of ill-natured people mistake ---- for frankness.
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INCONGRUOUS (page 214).
QUESTIONS.
1. When are things said to be incongruous? 2. To what is discordant applied? inharmonious? 3. What does
incompatible signify? When are things said to be incompatible? 4. To what does inconsistent apply? 5. What
illustrations of the uses of these words are given in the text? 6. What is the meaning of incommensurable?
EXAMPLES.
No solitude is so solitary as that of ---- companionship.
I hear a strain ---- as a merry dirge, or sacramental bacchanal might be.
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INDUCTION (page 215).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is deduction? induction? 2. What is the proof of an induction? 3. What process is ordinarily followed
in what is known as scientific induction? 4. How do deduction and induction compare as to the certainty of the
conclusion? 5. How does an induction compare with an inference?
EXAMPLES.
The longer one studies a vast subject the more cautious in ---- he becomes.
Perhaps the widest and best known ---- of Biology, is that organisms grow.
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INDUSTRIOUS (page 215).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does busy differ from industrious? 2. What is the implication if we say one is industrious just now? 3.
What does diligent add to the meaning of industrious?
EXAMPLES.
Look cheerfully upon me, Here, love; thou see'st how ---- I am.
The ---- have no time for tears.
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INDUSTRY (page 216).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is industry? 2. What does assiduity signify as indicated by its etymology? diligence? 3. How does
application compare with assiduity? 4. What is constancy? patience? perseverance? 5. What is persistence?
What implication does it frequently convey? 6. How does industry compare with diligence? 7. To what do
labor and pains especially refer?
EXAMPLES.
Honors come by ----; riches spring from economy.
'Tis ---- supports us all.
There is no success in study without close, continuous, and intense ----.
His ---- in wickedness would have won him enduring honor if it had taken the form of ---- in a better cause.
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INFINITE (page 216).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is infinite derived, and with what meaning? To what may it be applied? 2. How do
countless, innumerable, and numberless compare with infinite? 3. What is the use of boundless, illimitable,
limitless, measureless, and unlimited? 4. What are the dimensions of infinite space? What is the duration of
infinite time?
EXAMPLES.
My bounty is as ---- as the sea, my love as deep, the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are ----.
Man's inhumanity to man makes ---- thousands mourn.
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INFLUENCE (page 217).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to influence? is one influenced by external or internal force? 2. To what kind of power does
actuate refer? Does one person actuate or influence another? 3. What do prompt and stir imply? 4. What is it
to excite? 5. What do incite and instigate signify? How do these two words differ? 6. What do urge and impel
imply? How do they differ in the source of the power exerted? 7. What do drive and compel imply, and how
do these two words compare with each other?
EXAMPLES.
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He was ---- by his own violent passions to desperate crime.
And well she can ----.
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable, If not to Thee, to
those they ----.
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INHERENT (page 218).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does inherent signify? 2. To what realm of thought does immanent belong? What does it signify?
How does it differ from inherent? Which is applied to the Divine Being? 3. To what do congenital, innate,
and inborn apply as distinguished from inherent and intrinsic? 4. With what special reference does congenital
occur in medical and legal use? 5. What is the difference in use between innate and inborn? 6. What does