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inbred add to the sense of innate or inborn? 7. What is ingrained?
EXAMPLES.
An ---- power in the life of the world.
All men have an ---- right to life, liberty, and protection.
He evinced an ---- stupidity that seemed almost tantamount to ---- idiocy.
Many philosophers hold that God is ---- in nature.
Any stable currency must be founded at last upon something, as gold or silver, that has ---- value.
The wrongs and abuses which are ---- in the very structure and constitution of society as it now exists
throughout Christendom.
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INJURY (page 219).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is injury derived? What is its primary meaning? Its derived meaning? 2. How inclusive
a word is injury? 3. From what is damage derived, and with what original sense? detriment? How do these
words compare in actual use? 4. How does damage compare with loss? How can a loss be said to be partial?
5. What is evil, and with what frequent suggestion? 6. What is harm? hurt? How do these words compare with
injury? 7. What is mischief? How caused, and with what intent?
EXAMPLES.
Nothing can work me ----, except myself; the ---- that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real
sufferer but by my own fault.
Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword, And won thy love, doing thee ----.
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INJUSTICE (page 220).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is injustice? 2. How does wrong differ from injustice in legal use? How in popular use? 3. What is
iniquity in the legal sense? in the common sense?
EXAMPLES.
War in men's eyes shall be a monster of ----.
No man can mortgage his ---- as a pawn for his fidelity.
Such an act is an ---- upon humanity.
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INNOCENT (page 220).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does innocent in the full sense signify? 2. Is innocent positive or negative? How does it compare with
righteous, upright, or virtuous? 3. In what two applications may immaculate, pure, and sinless be used? 4.
With what limited sense is innocent used of moral beings? 5. In what sense is innocent applied to inanimate
substances?
EXAMPLES.
They are as ---- as grace itself.
For blessings ever wait on ---- deeds, And tho a late, a sure reward succeeds.
The wicked flee where no man pursueth, but the ---- are bold as a lion.
A daughter, and a goodly babe; ... the queen receives Much comfort in't: says, My poor prisoner, I am ---- as
you.
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INQUISITIVE (page 221).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the characteristics of an inquisitive person? 2. Is inquisitive ever used in a good sense? What, in
that sense, is ordinarily preferred? 3. What does curious signify, and how does it differ from inquisitive?
EXAMPLES.
His was an anxiously ---- mind, a scrupulously conscientious heart.
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Adrian was the most ---- man that ever lived, and the most universal inquirer.
I am ---- to know the cause of this sudden change of purpose.
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INSANITY (page 221).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is insanity in the widest sense? in its restricted use? Which use is the more frequent? 2. From what is
lunacy derived? What did it originally imply? In what sense is it now used? 3. What is madness? 4. What is
derangement? delirium? 5. What is the specific meaning of dementia? 6. What is aberration? 7. What is the
distinctive meaning of hallucination? 8. What is monomania? 9. What are frenzy and mania?
EXAMPLES.
Go--you may call it ----, folly--you shall not chase my gloom away.
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of ----.
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INTERPOSE (page 222).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to interpose? 2. How does intercede differ from interpose? 3. What is it to intermeddle? How
does it differ from meddle? from interfere? 4. What do arbitrate and mediate involve?
EXAMPLES.
Dion, his brother, ---- for him and his life was saved.
Nature has ---- a natural barrier between England and the continent.
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INVOLVE (page 223).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is involve derived, and with what primary meaning? 2. How does involve compare
with implicate? 3. Are these words used in the favorable or the unfavorable sense? 4. As regards results what
is the difference between include, imply, and involve?
EXAMPLES.
Rocks may be squeezed into new forms, bent, contorted, and ----.
An oyster-shell sometimes ---- a pearl.
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---- in other men's affairs, he went down to their ruin.
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JOURNEY (page 223).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is journey derived? What is its primary meaning? Its present meaning? 2. What is