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acquaintance from friendship? from intimacy? 3. How does fellowship differ from friendship?
EXAMPLES.
A public speaker becomes known to many persons whom he does not know, but who are ready promptly to
claim ---- with him.
The ---- of life must bring us into ---- with many who can not be admitted within the inner circle of ----.
The ---- of school and college life often develop into the most beautiful and enduring ----.
Between those most widely separated by distance of place and time, by language, station, occupation, and
creed, there may yet be true ---- of soul.
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ACRIMONY (page 15).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does acerbity differ from asperity? asperity from acrimony? 2. How is acrimony distinguished from
malignity? malignity from virulence? 3. What is implied in the use of the word severity?
EXAMPLES.
A certain ---- of speech had become habitual with him.
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To this ill-timed request, he answered with sudden ----.
A constant sense of injustice may deepen into a settled ----.
This smooth and pleasing address veiled a deep ----.
Great ---- will be patiently borne if the sufferer is convinced of its essential justice.
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ACT (page 16).
QUESTIONS.
1. How is act distinguished from action? from deed? 2. Which of the words in this group necessarily imply an
external effect? Which may be wholly mental?
EXAMPLES.
He who does the truth will need no instruction as to individual ----s.
---- is the truth of thought.
The ---- is done.
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ACTIVE (page 17).
QUESTIONS.
1. With what two sets of words is active allied? 2. How does active differ from busy? from industrious? 3.
How do active and restless compare? 4. To what sort of activity does officious refer? 6. What are some chief
antonyms of active?
EXAMPLES.
Being of an ---- disposition and without settled purpose or definite occupation, she became ---- as a hornet.
He had his ---- days and hours, but could never be properly said to be ----.
An ---- attendant instantly seized upon my baggage.
The true student is ---- from the mere love of learning, independently of its rewards.
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ACUMEN (page 18).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do sharpness, acuteness, penetration, and insight compare with acumen? 2. What is the special
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characteristic of acumen? To what order of mind does it belong? 3. What is sagacity? Is it attributed to men or
brutes? 4. What is perspicacity? 5. What is shrewdness? Is it ordinarily good or evil? 6. Give illustrations of
the uses of the above words as regards the possessors of the corresponding qualities.
EXAMPLES.
The treatise displays great critical ----.
The Indians had developed a practical ---- that enabled them to follow a trail by scarcely perceptible signs
almost as unerringly as the hound by scent.
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ADD (page 18).
QUESTIONS.
1. How is add related to increase? How does it differ from multiply? 2. What does augment signify? Of what
is it ordinarily used? 3. To what does amplify apply? 4. In what ways may a discourse or treatise be amplified?
EXAMPLES.
Care to our coffin ---- a nail no doubt; And every grin, so merry, draws one out.
---- up at night, what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do.
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ADDRESS, v. (page 19).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does accost always signify? greet? hail? 2. How does salute differ from accost or greet? address? 3.
What is it to apostrophize?
EXAMPLES.
The pale snowdrop is springing To ---- the glowing sun.
---- to the Chief who in triumph advances.
His faithful dog ---- the smiling guest.
---- ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and died in freedom's cause.
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ADDRESS, n. (page 20).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is address in the sense here considered? 2. What is tact? 3. What qualities are included in address?
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EXAMPLES.
And the tear that is wiped with a little ---- May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
The ---- of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking; I could wish ---- would invent some other custom of
entertainment.
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ADEQUATE (page 21).
QUESTIONS.
1. What do adequate, commensurate, and sufficient alike signify? How does commensurate specifically differ
from the other two words? Give examples. 2. To what do adapted, fit, suitable, and qualified refer? 3. Is
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