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"I shall talk of what I like," she said wilfully, clasping her hands round her knees with the gesture of an ----
child.
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OBSTRUCT (page 257).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the literal meaning of obstruct? How does it compare with hinder? 2. How does obstruct compare
with impede? 3. What does arrest signify in the sense here considered?
EXAMPLES.
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our
ordinary education often labors to silence and ----.
No, no ----ing the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might.
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OLD (page 257).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does old signify? 2. How do old and ancient compare? 3. What contrasted senses has old? 4. What is
the special force of olden? 5. In what sense are gray, hoary, and olden used of material objects? 6. To what is
aged chiefly applied? 7. To what do decrepit, gray, and hoary apply, as said of human beings? 8. To what
does senile apply? 9. In what sense is elderly used? 10. What are the primary and derived meanings of
remote? 11. What does venerable express?
EXAMPLES.
The hills, Rock-ribbed and ---- as the sun,--the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The ---- woods,
... ... and, poured round all, ---- ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of
the great tomb of man.
Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The ---- patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
O good ---- head which all men knew!
Shall we, shall ---- men, like ---- trees, Strike deeper their vile root, and closer cling, Still more enamored of
their wretched soil?
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OPERATION (page 258).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does operation denote? and by what kind of agent is it effected? 2. What do performance and
execution denote? and by what kind of agents are they effected? 3. How does performance differ from
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execution?
EXAMPLES.
It requires a surgical ---- to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
His promises were, as he then was, mighty; But his ----, as he is now, nothing.
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ORDER (page 258).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does instruction imply? direction? 2. How does order compare with direction? 3. To what classes of
persons are orders especially given? How does an order in the commercial sense become authoritative? 4.
How does command compare with order? 5. In what sense is requirement used? By what authority is a
requirement made? 6. In what sense is prohibition used? injunction?
EXAMPLES.
General Sherman writes in his Memoirs, "I have never in my life questioned or disobeyed an ----."
"Ye shall become like God"--transcendent fate! That God's ---- forgot, she plucked and ate.
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OSTENTATION (page 259).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is ostentation? How does it compare with boasting? display? show? 2. What is pomp? pageant or
pageantry? What do the two latter words suggest, and how do they compare with pomp? 3. From what is
parade derived? What is its primary meaning? With what implication is it always used in the metaphorical
sense? How does parade compare with ostentation?
EXAMPLES.
The boast of heraldry, the ---- of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the
inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
The President's salary does not permit ----, nor, indeed, is ---- expected of him.
With all his wealth, talent, and learning, he was singularly free from ----.
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OVERSIGHT (page 260).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what two contrasted senses is oversight used? 2. How does superintendence compare with oversight? 3.
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With what special reference is control used? 4. What kind of a term is surveillance, and what does it imply?
EXAMPLES.
Those able to conduct great enterprises must be allowed wages of ----.
O Friendship, equal poised ----!
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the ---- thereof not by constraint, but willingly.
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OUGHT (page 260).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does ought properly signify? 2. How does ought compare with should? 3. In what secondary sense is
ought sometimes used?
EXAMPLES.
He has not a right to do what he likes, but only what he ---- with his own, which after all is his own only in a
qualified sense.
Age ---- have reverence, and ---- be worthy to have it.
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PAIN (page 261).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is pain? suffering? 2. How does distress rank as compared with pain and suffering? 3. What is an
ache? a throe? a paroxysm? 4. What is agony? anguish?
EXAMPLES.
To each his ----s; all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's ----, The unfeeling for his
own.
The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ----, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature.
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PALLIATE (page 261).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do cloak and palliate agree in original meaning? How do they differ in the derived senses? 2. What is
it to extenuate, and how does that word compare with palliate?
EXAMPLES.
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Speak of me as I am; nothing ---- Nor aught set down in malice.
We would not dissemble nor ---- [our transgressions] before the face of Almighty God, our heavenly Father.
I shall never attempt to ---- my own foibles by exposing the error of another.
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PARDON, v. (page 262).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to pardon? 2. To what does forgive refer? 3. How do pardon and forgive differ in use in
accordance with the difference in meaning? 4. What is it to remit? to condone? to excuse?
EXAMPLES.
How many will say ----, And find a kind of license in the sound To hate a little longer!
I ---- him, as heaven shall ---- me.
To err is human, to ----, divine.
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PARDON, n. (page 262).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is acquittal? How does it differ from pardon as regards the person acquitted or pardoned? 2. Is an
innocent person ever pardoned? 3. What is oblivion? amnesty? absolution?
EXAMPLES.
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called ----.
----, not wrath, is God's best attribute.
---- to the injured does belong, But they ne'er ---- who have done the wrong.
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