EXAMPLES.
Inflaming wine, ---- to mankind.
So bees with smoke, and doves with ---- stench, Are from their hives,
and houses, driven away.
The strong smell of sulfur, and a choking sensation of the lungs indicated the presence of ---- gases.
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PERPLEXITY (page 270).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is
perplexity?
confusion? How do the two words compare? 2. How do
bewilderment and
confusion
compare? 3. From what does
amazement result?
EXAMPLES.
CAIUS.--Vere is mine host
de Jarterre? HOST.--Here, master doctor, in ---- and doubtful dilemma.
There
is such ---- in my powers As, after some oration fairly spoke By a beloved prince, there doth appear
Among the buzzing, pleased multitude.
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PERSUADE (page 271).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does
convince denote? How does it differ from the other words of the group? 2. What is it to
persuade? 3. How is
convincing related to
persuasion? 4. How does
coax compare with
persuade?
EXAMPLES.
A long train of these practises has at length unwillingly ---- me that there is something
hid behind the throne
greater than the king himself.
He had a head to contrive, a tongue to ----, and a hand to execute any mischief.
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PERVERSE (page 272).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the etymological meaning of
perverse? What does it signify in common use? 2. What does
petulant
signify?
wayward?
EXAMPLES.
And you, my lords--methinks you do not well, To bear with their ---- objections.
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Whining, purblind, ---- boy!
Good Lord! what madness rules in brainsick men When, for so slight and frivolous a cause, Such ----
emulations shall arise.
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PHYSICAL (page 272).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does
material signify? 2.
What idea does physical add to that contained in
material? 3. To what do
bodily,
corporal, and
corporeal apply? 4. How do
bodily and
corporal differ from
corporeal? 5. To what is
corporal now for the most part limited?
EXAMPLES.
---- punishment is practically abandoned in the greater number of American schools.
Man has two parts, the one ---- and earthly, the other immaterial and spiritual.
These races are all clearly differentiated by other ---- traits than the color of the skin.
We can not think of substance save in terms that imply ---- properties.
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PITIFUL (page 273).
QUESTIONS.
1. What
was the original meaning of pitiful? What does it now signify? 2. How does
pitiful differ in use from
pitiable? 3. What was the early and what is the present sense of
piteous?
EXAMPLES.
There is something pleading and ---- in the simplicity of perfect ignorance.
The most ---- sight one ever sees is a young man doing nothing; the Furies early drag him to his doom.
O, the most ---- cry of the poor souls!
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PITY (page 273).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is
pity?
sympathy? 2. How does
sympathy in
its exercise differ from pity? 3. How does
pity differ
from
mercy? 4. How does
compassion compare with
mercy and
pity? 5. How does
commiseration differ from
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