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ADEQUATE (page 21).
QUESTIONS.
1. What do _adequate_, _commensurate_, and _sufficient_ alike signify?
How does _commensurate_ specifically differ from the other two words?
Give examples. 2. To what do _adapted_, _fit_, _suitable_, and _qualified_ refer? 3. Is _satisfactory_ a very high recommendation of any work? Why? 4. Is _able_ or _capable_ the higher word? Ill.u.s.trate.
EXAMPLES.
We know not of what we are ---- till the trial comes.
Indeed, left nothing ---- for your purpose untouched, slightly handled, in discourse.
ADHERENT (page 21).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _adherent_? 2. How does an _adherent_ differ from a _supporter_? from a _disciple_? 3. How do both the above words differ from _ally_? 4. Has _partisan_ a good or a bad sense, and why? 5. Is it well to speak of a _supporter_ as a _backer_?
EXAMPLES.
Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away ----s after them.
Woman is woman's natural ----.
Self-defense compelled the European nations to be ----s against Napoleon.
The deposed monarch was found to have a strong body of ----s.
ADJACENT (page 22).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _adjacent_ and _adjoining_?
_contiguous_? _conterminous_? 2. What distance is implied in _near_?
_neighboring_? 3. What does _next_ always imply? 4. Give antonyms of _adjacent_; _near_.
EXAMPLES.
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw ---- to their eternal home.
ADMIRE (page 23).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what sense was _admire_ formerly used? What does it now express?
2. How does _admire_ compare with _revere_? _venerate_? _adore_? Give instances of the use of these words.
EXAMPLES.
The beautiful are sure to be ----.
Henceforth the majesty of G.o.d ----; Fear him, and you have nothing else to fear.
I value Science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to ----: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
ADORN (page 23).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _adorn_ differ from _ornament_? from _garnish_? from _deck_ or _bedeck_? from _decorate_?
EXAMPLES.
At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks ---- the venerable place.
The red breast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With h.o.a.ry moss, and gathered flowers, To ---- the ground where thou art laid.
AFFRONT (page 24).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _affront_? 2. How does _affront_ compare with _insult_?
with _tease_? _annoy_?
