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horticulture?
EXAMPLES.
Loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of ----.
A field becomes exhausted by constant ----.
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AIM (page 26).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an aim? How does it differ from mark? from goal? 2. How do end and object compare? 3. To what
does aspiration apply? How does it differ in general from design, endeavor, or purpose? 4. How does purpose
compare with intention? 5. What is design?
EXAMPLES.
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable ---- that end with self.
O yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final ---- of ill.
How quickly nature falls into revolt, When gold becomes her ----.
It is not ----, but ambition that is the mother of misery in man.
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AIR (page 27).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is air in the sense here considered? 2. How does air differ from appearance? 3. What is the
difference between expression and look? 4. What is the sense of bearing? carriage? 5. How does mien differ
from air? 6. What does demeanor include?
EXAMPLES.
I never, with important ----, In conversation overbear.
Vice is a monster of so frightful ----, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen.
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty ----,
repeats his words.
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AIRY (page 27).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does airy agree with and differ from aerial? Give instances of the uses of the two words. 2. What does
ethereal signify? sprightly? 3. Are lively and animated used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
---- tongues that syllable men's names, on sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
The ---- mold Incapable of stain, would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious.
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Society became my glittering bride, And ---- hopes my children.
Soft o'er the shrouds ---- whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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ALARM (page 28).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation and distinctive meaning of alarm? 2. What do affright and fright express? Give an
illustration of the contrasted terms. 3. How are apprehension, disquietude, dread, and misgiving related to the
danger that excites them? 4. What are consternation, dismay, and terror, and how are they related to the
danger? 5. What is timidity?
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ALERT (page 28).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what do alert, wide-awake, and ready refer? 2. How does ready differ from alert? from prepared? 3.
What does prompt signify? 4. What is the secondary meaning of alert?
EXAMPLES.
To be ---- for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace.
He who is not ---- to-day will be less so to-morrow.
Thus ending loudly, as he would o'erleap His destiny, ---- he stood.
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ALIEN, a. & n. (page 29).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does alien differ from foreign? 2. Is a foreigner by birth necessarily an alien? 3. Are the people of one
country while residing in their own land foreigners or aliens to the people of other lands? 4. How can one
residing in a foreign country cease to be an alien in that country? 5. How do foreign and alien differ in their
figurative use?
EXAMPLES.
By ---- hands thy dying eyes were closed . . . By ---- hands thy humble grave adorned By strangers honored
and by strangers mourned.
What is religion? Not a ---- inhabitant, nor something ---- to our nature, which comes and takes up its abode in
the soul.
---- from the commonwealth of Israel and ---- from the covenants of promise.
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ALIKE (page 30).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does alike compare with similar? with identical? 2. What is the distinction often made between equal
and equivalent? 3. What is the sense of analogous? (Compare synonyms for ANALOGY.) 4. In what sense is