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He who does the truth will need no instruction as to individual ----s.
---- is the truth of thought.
The ---- is done.
ACTIVE (page 17).
QUESTIONS.
1. With what two sets of words is _active_ allied? 2. How does _active_ differ from _busy_? from _industrious_? 3. How do _active_ and _restless_ compare? 4. To what sort of activity does _officious_ refer?
6. What are some chief antonyms of _active_?
EXAMPLES.
Being of an ---- disposition and without settled purpose or definite occupation, she became ---- as a hornet.
He had his ---- days and hours, but could never be properly said to be ----.
An ---- attendant instantly seized upon my baggage.
The true student is ---- from the mere love of learning, independently of its rewards.
Ac.u.mEN (page 18).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do _sharpness_, _acuteness_, _penetration_, and _insight_ compare with _ac.u.men_? 2. What is the special characteristic of _ac.u.men_? To what order of mind does it belong? 3. What is _sagacity_? Is it attributed to men or brutes? 4. What is _perspicacity_? 5. What is _shrewdness_? Is it ordinarily good or evil? 6. Give ill.u.s.trations of the uses of the above words as regards the possessors of the corresponding qualities.
EXAMPLES.
The treatise displays great critical ----.
The Indians had developed a practical ---- that enabled them to follow a trail by scarcely perceptible signs almost as unerringly as the hound by scent.
ADD (page 18).
QUESTIONS.
1. How is _add_ related to _increase_? How does it differ from _multiply_? 2. What does _augment_ signify? Of what is it ordinarily used? 3. To what does _amplify_ apply? 4. In what ways may a discourse or treatise be _amplified_?
EXAMPLES.
Care to our coffin ---- a nail no doubt; And every grin, so merry, draws one out.
---- up at night, what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do.
ADDRESS, _v._ (page 19).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _accost_ always signify? _greet_? _hail_? 2. How does _salute_ differ from _accost_ or _greet_? _address_? 3. What is it to _apostrophize_?
EXAMPLES.
The pale snowdrop is springing To ---- the glowing sun.
---- to the Chief who in triumph advances.
His faithful dog ---- the smiling guest.
---- ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and died in freedom's cause.
ADDRESS, _n._ (page 20).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _address_ in the sense here considered? 2. What is _tact_? 3.
What qualities are included in _address_?
EXAMPLES.
And the tear that is wiped with a little ---- May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
The ---- of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking; I could wish ---- would invent some other custom of entertainment.
