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The cruelty and envy of the people ---- by our dastard n.o.bles, who Have all forsook me, hath devoured the rest.
State churches have ever been unwilling to ---- dissent.
ALLUDE (page 36).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive sense of _allude_? of _advert_? of _refer_?
2. How do the above words compare with _mention_ as to explicitness? 3.
How do _hint_ and _insinuate_ differ?
EXAMPLES.
Late in the eighteenth century Cowper did not venture to do more than ---- to the great allegorist [Bunyan], saying:
"I name thee not, lest so despised a name Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame."
ALLURE (page 37).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _allure_? 2. How does _allure_ differ from _attract_?
from _lure_? 3. What does _coax_ express? 4. What is it to _cajole_? to _decoy_? to _inveigle_? 5. How does _seduce_ differ from _tempt_? 6. Is _win_ used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
The ruddy square of comfortable light ---- him, as the beacon blaze ---- The bird of pa.s.sage.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And ---- by making rich, not making poor.
He had a strange gift of ---- friends, and of ---- the love of women.
ALSO (page 37).
QUESTIONS.
1. Into what two groups are the synonyms for _also_ naturally divided?
2. Which words simply add a fact or thought? 3. Which distinctly imply that what is added is like that to which it is added?
EXAMPLES.
Thine to work ---- to pray, Clearing th.o.r.n.y wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm suns.h.i.+ne in.
ALTERNATIVE (page 38).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _choice_ and _alternative_ in the strict use of language? 2. Is _alternative_ always so severely restricted by leading writers? 3. What do _choice_, _pick_, _election_, and _preference_ imply regarding one's wishes? _alternative_?
_resources_?
EXAMPLES.
Homer delights to call Ulysses "the man of many ----."
AMa.s.s (page 38).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _ama.s.s_? 2. How is _ama.s.s_ distinguished from _acc.u.mulate_? 3. Is interest _ama.s.sed_ or _acc.u.mulated_? 4. How does _h.o.a.rd_ differ from _store_?
EXAMPLES.
By daring and successful speculation, he ---- a prodigious fortune.
The sum was the ---- savings of an industrious and frugal life.
O, to what purpose dost thou ---- thy words, That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?
AMATEUR (page 39).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _amateur_ and _connoisseur_? between _connoisseur_ and _critic_? 2. Which word carries a natural implication of superficialness? 3. How do _novice_ and _tyro_ differ from _amateur_?
EXAMPLES.
