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satisfactory a very high recommendation of any work? Why? 4. Is able or capable the higher word? Illustrate.
EXAMPLES.
We know not of what we are ---- till the trial comes.
Indeed, left nothing ---- for your purpose untouched, slightly handled, in discourse.
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ADHERENT (page 21).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an adherent? 2. How does an adherent differ from a supporter? from a disciple? 3. How do both
the above words differ from ally? 4. Has partisan a good or a bad sense, and why? 5. Is it well to speak of a
supporter as a backer?
EXAMPLES.
Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away ----s after them.
Woman is woman's natural ----.
Self-defense compelled the European nations to be ----s against Napoleon.
The deposed monarch was found to have a strong body of ----s.
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ADJACENT (page 22).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between adjacent and adjoining? contiguous? conterminous? 2. What distance is
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implied in near? neighboring? 3. What does next always imply? 4. Give antonyms of adjacent; near.
EXAMPLES.
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw ---- to their eternal home.
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ADMIRE (page 23).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what sense was admire formerly used? What does it now express? 2. How does admire compare with
revere? venerate? adore? Give instances of the use of these words.
EXAMPLES.
The beautiful are sure to be ----.
Henceforth the majesty of God ----; Fear him, and you have nothing else to fear.
I value Science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to ----: Be it religious, as it ought to be,
The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
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ADORN (page 23).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does adorn differ from ornament? from garnish? from deck or bedeck? from decorate?
EXAMPLES.
At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks ---- the venerable place.
The red breast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered flowers,
To ---- the ground where thou art laid.
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AFFRONT (page 24).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to affront? 2. How does affront compare with insult? with tease? annoy?
EXAMPLES.
It is safer to ---- some people than to oblige them; for the better a man deserves, the worse they will speak of
him.
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Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches ---- the brain.
The petty desire to ---- is simply a perversion of the human love of power.
They rushed to meet the ---- foe.
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AGENT (page 24).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does agent in the philosophical sense compare with mover or doer? 2. What different sense has it in
business usage?
EXAMPLES.
That morality may mean anything, man must be held to be a free ----.
The ---- declined to take the responsibility in the absence of the owner.
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AGREE (page 25).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do concur and coincide differ in range of meaning? How with reference to expression in action? 2.
How does accede compare with consent? 3. Which is the most general word of this group?
EXAMPLES.
A woman's lot is made for her by the love she ----.
My poverty, but not my will, ----.
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AGRICULTURE (page 25).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does agriculture include? How does it differ from farming? 2. What is gardening? floriculture?