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preternatural? 3. In what sense do some hold a miracle to be supernatural? What descriptive term would
others prefer? 4. What is the meaning of superhuman? In what secondary sense is it often used?
EXAMPLES.
It was something altogether ----, as when God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.
With an imagination of intense vividness and ---- activity, Choate was as practical as the most sordid capitalist
that ever became an "incarnation of fat dividends."
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SUPPORT (page 348).
QUESTIONS.
1. What do support and sustain alike signify? 2. How does sustain surpass support in meaning and force? 3.
What is the force and use of bear in this connection? 4. What is it to maintain? 5. How does maintain
compare with support as to fulness and as to dignity? 6. What is it to prop? What is the limit upon the
meaning of this word?
EXAMPLES.
And Cain said, My punishment is great than I can ----.
You take my house when you do take the prop That doth ---- my house.
Can a soul like mine, Unus'd to power, and form'd for humbler scenes, ---- the splendid miseries of greatness?
While less expert, tho stronger far, The Gael ----ed unequal war.
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SUPPOSE (page 348).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to suppose? 2. How does conjecture differ from suppose? 3. What does think signify in the sense
here considered? How does it compare with conjecture or suppose?
EXAMPLES.
Newton ----ed that if the earth were to be so compressed as to be absolutely without pores, its dimensions
might not exceed a cubic inch.
Let it not be ----ed that principles and opinions always go together.
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SYNONYMOUS (page 349).
QUESTIONS.
1. Are there any synonymous words in the strict sense of the term? 2. What is meant by synonymous words? 3.
What are the two common faults with reference to synonymous words or synonyms?
EXAMPLES.
The great source of a loose style is the injudicious use of those words termed ----.
To raise, with fitting observances, over the ruins of the historic fortress [Sumter] the ---- flag which had
waved over it during its first bombardment.
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SYSTEM (page 350).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is order, in the sense here considered? 2. What does method denote? 3. What is a system? 4. To what
does manner refer? 5. To what does regularity apply? 6. Can there be order without regularity or regularity
without order, and how?
EXAMPLES.
If this be madness, there is ---- in it.
A ---- is ... an organized body of truth, or truths arranged under one and the same idea, which idea is as the life
or soul which assimilates all those truths.
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TEACH (page 353).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to teach? 2. How does instruct surpass teach in signification? 3. What secondary sense has
instruct? 4. What is the full meaning of educate? 5. What is it to train? 6. To what is train commonly applied
where educate could not well be used? 7. What is it to discipline? 8. What does nurture signify, and how does
it compare with educate?
EXAMPLES.
Plato returned to Athens and began to ----; like his master, he ---- without money and without price.
For the most effective mechanical work both mind and hand must be ----ed in childhood.
The Highlanders flocking to him from all quarters, though ill-armed, and worse ----ed, made him undervalue
any enemy who, he thought, was yet to encounter him.
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TERM (page 354).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the literal meaning of term? 2. Is this meaning retained in the figurative uses of the word? 3. What
are the articles of a contract? the terms of a contract? 4. What is a condition? 5. What is a term in the logical
sense? 6. How does term in ordinary use compare with word, expression, or phrase?
EXAMPLES.
For beauty's acme hath a ---- as brief As the wave's poise before it break in pearl.
But what are these moral sermons [of Seneca]? ----s, nothing but ----s.
The very ---- miser is a confession of the misery which attends avarice.
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TERSE (page 354).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of short or brief? 2. What is the derivation and meaning of concise? of condensed? of
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