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discourse related to conversation? 4. What are the special senses of dialogue and colloquy?
EXAMPLES.
There can be no ---- with a great genius, who does all the ----ing.
Nor wanted sweet ----, the banquet of the mind.
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CONVEY (page 119).
QUESTIONS.
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1. In what do convey, transmit, and transport agree? What is the distinctive sense of convey? 2. To what class
of objects does transport refer? 3. To what class of objects do transfer, transmit, and convey apply? 4. Which
is the predominant sense of the latter words?
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CRIMINAL (page 120).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of criminal? How does it differ from illegal or unlawful? 2. What is
felonious? flagitious? 3. What is the primary meaning of iniquitous? 4. Is an iniquitous act necessarily
criminal?
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DANGER (page 121).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of danger? 2. Does danger or peril suggest the more immediate evil? 3.
How are jeopardy and risk distinguished from danger and peril?
EXAMPLES.
Delay always breeds ----.
The careful rider avoids running ----.
Stir, at your ----!
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DECAY (page 122).
QUESTIONS.
1. What sort of things decay? putrefy? rot? 2. What is the essential difference between decay and decompose?
EXAMPLES.
The flowers wither, the tree's trunk ----.
The water was ---- by the electric current.
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DECEPTION (page 123).
QUESTIONS.
1. How is deceit distinguished from deception? from guile? fraud? lying? hypocrisy? 2. Do all of these apply
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to conduct as well as to speech? 3. Is deception ever innocent? 4. Have craft and cunning always a moral
element? 5. How is dissimulation distinguished from duplicity?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of his conduct was patent to all.
It was a matter of self-----.
The judge decided it to be a case of ----.
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DEFINITION (page 124).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which is the more exact, a definition or a description? 2. What must a definition include, and what must it
exclude? 3. What must a description include? 4. In what respect has interpretation a wider meaning than
translation? 5. How does an explanation compare with an exposition?
EXAMPLES.
A prompt ---- of the difficulty prevented a quarrel.
The ---- of scenery was admirable.
The seer gave an ---- of the dream.
Many a controversy may be instantly ended by a clear ---- of terms.
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DELIBERATE (page 125).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the chief distinctions between deliberate? consult? consider? meditate? reflect? 2. Do large
gatherings of people consult, or meditate, or deliberate? 3. Do we reflect on things past or things to come? 4.
How many persons are necessarily implied in consult, confer, and debate as commonly used? in deliberate,
consider, ponder, reflect? in meditate? 5. What idea of time is implied in deliberate?
EXAMPLES.
The matter was carefully ---- in all its bearings.
The legislature ---- for several days.
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DELUSION (page 127).
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QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential difference between illusion and delusion? How does hallucination differ from both? 2.
Which word is used especially of objects of sight?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of the sick are sometimes pitiful.
In the soft light the ---- was complete.
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DEMONSTRATION (page 127).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what kind of reasoning does demonstration in the strict sense apply? 2. What is evidence? proof? 3.
Which is the stronger term? 4. Which is the more comprehensive?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of the witness was so complete that no further ---- was required.
A mathematical ---- must be final and conclusive.
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DESIGN (page 128).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of design? 2. What element is prominent in intention? purpose? plan? 3.
Does purpose suggest more power to execute than design? 4. How does intent specifically differ from
purpose? Which term do we use with reference to the Divine Being?
EXAMPLES.
The architect's ---- involved much detail.
Hell is paved with good ----.
It is the ---- of the voter that decides how his ballot shall be counted.
The ---- of the Almighty can not be thwarted.
The adaption of means to ends in nature clearly indicates a ----, and so proves a ----er.
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DESPAIR (page 129).
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QUESTIONS.
1. In what order might despair, desperation, discouragement, and hopelessness follow, each as the result of
the previous condition? 2. How does despondency especially differ from despair?
EXAMPLES.
The utter ---- of their condition was apparent.
In weak ---- he abandoned all endeavor.
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DEXTERITY (page 129).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is adroitness derived? From what dexterity? How might each be rendered? 2. How does