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divide? 2. What is the significance of dispense in the transitive use? 3. What is it to appropriate?
EXAMPLES.
Representatives are ---- among the several states according to the population.
The treasure was ---- and their shares duly ---- among the captors.
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APPROXIMATION (page 55).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an approximation in the mathematical sense? 2. How close an approach to exactness and certainty
does approximation imply? 3. How does approximation differ from resemblance and similarity? from
approach? 4. How does approximation, as regards the class of objects to which it is applied, differ from
nearness, neighborhood, or propinquity?
EXAMPLES.
We have to be content with ---- to a solution.
Without faith, there is no real ---- to God.
Wit consists in knowing the ---- of things which differ, and the difference of things which are alike.
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ARMS (page 55).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between arms and armor? 2. In what connection is armor used in modern warfare?
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EXAMPLES.
---- on ---- clashing brayed Horrible discord.
There is constant rivalry between irresistible projectiles and impenetrable ----.
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ARMY (page 56).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the essentials of an army? 2. Is an army large or small? 3. What term would be applied to a
multitude of armed men without order or organization? 4. In what sense is host used? legion?
EXAMPLES.
For the ---- is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous, prodigal; miserly soldiers are
like monsters, but very rarely seen.
The still-discordant wavering ----.
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ARRAIGN (page 56).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what kind of proceedings do indict and arraign apply? 2. How is one indicted? How arraigned? 3. How
do these words differ from charge? accuse? censure?
EXAMPLES.
The criminal was ---- for trial for his offenses.
Religion does not ---- or exclude unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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ARTIFICE (page 58).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an artifice? a device? finesse? 2. In what sense are cheat, maneuver, and imposture always used? 3.
In what sense is trick commonly used? 4. What is a fraud? 5. Is wile used in a good or a bad sense? 6. Does
the good or the bad sense commonly attach to the words artifice, contrivance, ruse, blind, device, and finesse?
EXAMPLES.
Those who can not gain their ends by force naturally resort to ----.
The enemy were decoyed from their defenses by a skilful ----.
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Quips and cranks and wanton ----, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles.
Whoever has even once become notorious by base ----, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.
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ARTIST (page 58).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an artist? an artisan? 2. What is an artificer? How related to artist and artisan?
EXAMPLES.
The power depends on the depth of the ----'s insight of that object he contemplates.
Infuse into the purpose with which you follow the various employments and professions of life the sense of
beauty, and you are transformed at once from an ---- into an ----.
If too many ---- turn shopkeepers, the whole natural quantity of that business divided among them all may
afford too small a share for each.
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ASK (page 59).
QUESTIONS.
1. For what class of objects does one ask? For what does he beg? 2. How do entreat and beseech compare
with ask? 3. What is the special sense of implore? of supplicate? 4. How are crave and request distinguished?