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canceled or erased?
EXAMPLES.
It is practically impossible to clean a postage-stamp that has been properly ---- so that it can be used again.
With the aid of a sharp penknife the blot was quickly ----.
By lapse of time and elemental action, the inscription had become completely ----.
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CANDID (page 93).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what class of things do we apply aboveboard? candid? fair? frank? honest? sincere? transparent? 2.
Can you state the similarity between artless, guileless, naive, simple, and unsophisticated? How do they differ
as a class from the words above referred to? 3. How does it happen that "To be frank," or "To be candid" often
precedes the utterance of something disagreeable?
EXAMPLES.
The sophistry was so ---- as to disgust the assembly.
A. T. Stewart relied on ---- dealing as the secret of mercantile success.
An ---- man will not steal or defraud.
---- she seems with artful care Affecting to be unaffected.
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CARE (page 94).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the special difference between care and anxiety? 2. Wherein does care differ from caution?
solicitude from anxiety? watchfulness from wariness? 3. Can you give some of the senses of care? 4. Is
concern as strong a term as anxiety? 5. What is circumspection? precaution? heed?
EXAMPLES.
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Take her up tenderly, lift her with ----.
A military commander should have as much ---- as bravery.
The invaders fancied themselves so secure against attack that they had not taken the ---- to station sentinels.
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CARICATURE (page 95).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of caricature? 2. What is the special difference between parody and
travesty? between both and burlesque? 3. To what is caricature mostly confined? 4. How do mimicry and
imitation differ? 5. Is an extravaganza an exaggeration?
EXAMPLES.
The eagle nose of the general was magnified in every artist's ----.
His laughable reproduction of the great actor's vagaries was a clever bit of ----.
If it be not lying to say that a fox's tail is four feet long, it is certainly a huge ----.
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CARRY (page 96).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what sort of objects do we apply bear? carry? move? take? 2. What kinds of force or power do we
indicate by convey, lift, transmit, and transport? 3. What is the distinction between bring and carry? between
carry and bear? 4. What does lift mean? 5. Can you give some figurative uses of carry?
EXAMPLES.
The strong man can ---- 1,000 pounds with apparent ease.
Napoleon always endeavored to ---- the war into the enemy's territory.
It was found necessary to ---- the coal overland for a distance of 500 miles.
My punishment is greater than I can ----.
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CATASTROPHE (page 97).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a catastrophe or cataclysm? 2. Is a catastrophe also necessarily a calamity or a disaster? 3. Which
word has the broader meaning, disaster or calamity? 4. Does misfortune suggest as serious a condition as any
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of the foregoing? 5. How does a mishap compare with a catastrophe, a calamity, or a disaster? 6. Give some
chief antonyms of the above.
EXAMPLES.
War and pestilence are properly ----, while the loss of a battle may be a ----, but not a ----.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one ----.
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's ---- in his morning face.
The failure of the crops of two successive years proved an irreparable ---- to the emigrants.
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CAUSE (page 98).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the central distinction between antecedent and cause? 2. How are the words cause, condition, and