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travel? How does it differ from journey? 3. What was the former meaning of voyage? its present meaning? 4.
What is a trip? a tour? 5. What is the meaning and common use of passage? of transit? 6. What is the original
meaning of pilgrimage? How is it now used?
EXAMPLES.
---- makes all men countrymen.
All the ---- of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
It were a ---- like the path to heaven, To help you find them.
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JUDGE (page 224).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a judge in the legal sense? 2. What other senses has the word judge in common use? 3. What is a
referee, and how appointed? an arbitrator? 4. What is the popular sense of umpire? the legal sense? 5. What is
the present use of arbiter? 6. What are the judges of the United States Supreme Court officially called?
EXAMPLES.
The end crowns all, And that old common ----, Time, Will one day end it.
A man who is no ---- of law may be a good ---- of poetry.
The ---- is only the mouth of law, and the magistrate who punishes is only the hand.
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JUSTICE (page 225).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is justice in governmental relations? in social and personal relations? in matters of reasoning or
literary treatment? 2. To what do integrity, rectitude, right, righteousness, and virtue apply? What do all these
include? 3. What two contrasted senses has lawfulness? 4. To what does justness refer, and in what sense is it
used?
EXAMPLES.
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---- exalteth a nation.
---- of life is fame's best friend.
He shall have merely ----, and his bond.
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KEEP (page 226).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the general meaning of keep? 2. How does keep compare with preserve? fulfil? maintain? 3. What
does keep imply when used as a synonym of guard or defend?
EXAMPLES.
These make and ---- the balance of the mind.
The good old rule Sufficeth them,--the simple plan, That they should take who have the power And they
should ---- who can.
---- thy shop, and thy shop will ---- thee.
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KILL (page 226).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to kill? 2. To what are assassinate, execute, and murder restricted? 3. What is the specific
meaning of murder? execute? assassinate? To what class of persons is the latter word ordinarily applied? 4.
What is it to slay? 5. To what is massacre limited? With what special meaning is it used? 6. To what do
butcher and slaughter primarily apply? What is the sense of each when so used? 7. What is it to despatch?
EXAMPLES.
To look into her eyes was to ---- doubt.
Two presidents of the United States have been ----.
Hamilton was ---- in a duel by Aaron Burr.
The place was carried by storm, and the inhabitants ---- without distinction of age or sex.
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KIN (page 227).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does kind compare with kin? 2. What do kin and kindred denote? 3. What is affinity? How does it
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differ from consanguinity?
EXAMPLES.
A little more than ----, and less than ----.
He held his seat,--a friend to the human ----.
The patient bride, a little sad, Leaving of home and ----.
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KNOWLEDGE (page 227).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is knowledge? How does it differ from information? 2. What is perception? apprehension?