QUESTIONS.
1. What do
argumentation and
debate ordinarily imply? 2. How does
reasoning differ from both the above
words in this respect? 3.
To what kind of reasoning were
argument and
argumentation formerly restricted?
How widely are the words now applied? 4. How do
argument and
argumentation compare with
reasoning as
regards logical form?
EXAMPLES.
All ----, Inductive or Deductive, is a reaching of the unknown through the known; and where nothing
unknown is reached there is no ----.
Early at Bus'ness, and at Hazard late, Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a ----.
If thou continuest
to take delight in idle ----, thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but never
know how to live with men.
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REFINEMENT (page 305).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does
civilization apply, and what does it denote? 2. What is
refinement? 3. What is the primary
meaning of
cultivation? the derived meaning? 4. By what word is
cultivation now largely superseded? 5. What
does
culture denote?
EXAMPLES.
What is ----? It is the
humanization of man in society, the satisfaction for him in society of the true law of
human nature.
Giving up wrong pleasure is not self-sacrifice, but self-----.
This refined taste is the consequence of education and habit; we are born only with a capacity of entertaining
this ----.
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RELIABLE (page 306).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is to be said of the controversy regarding the formation and use of the word
reliable? 2. What do
trusty and
trustworthy denote? 3. How does
reliable compare with these words? 4.
What meaning may
reliable convey that
trusty and
trustworthy would not?
EXAMPLES.
Good lack! quoth he, yet bring it me My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my ---- sword, When I do
exercise.
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
441
The first voyage to America, of which we have any perfectly ---- account, was performed by the Norsemen.
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RELIGION (page 307).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original sense of
piety? the derived sense? 2. What is
religion? What does it include? 3. What is
worship?
devotion? 4. What is
morality?
godliness?
holiness? 5. How is
theology related to
religion?
EXAMPLES.
---- is man's belief in a being or beings, mightier than himself
and inaccessible to his senses, but not
indifferent to his sentiments and actions, with the feelings and practises which flow from such belief.
----, whose soul sincere Fears God, and knows no other fear.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make ---- impossible.
Systematic ---- may be defined as the substance of the Christian faith in a scientific form.
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REND (page 309).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what are
rend and
tear usually applied? Which is the stronger word? 2. In what connection is
rive used,
and in what sense? 3. What does
lacerate signify? 4. How does
mangle compare with
lacerate? 5. What do
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