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The happy ---- of a renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
ANTIPATHY (page 48).
QUESTIONS.
1. How is _antipathy_ to be distinguished from _dislike_? from _antagonism_? from _aversion_? 2. What is _uncongeniality_? How does it differ from _antipathy_? Which is positive? and which negative?
EXAMPLES.
Christianity is the solvent of all race ----.
From my soul I loathe All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn, object of my implacable ----.
ANTIQUE (page 48).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _antique_ refer? _antiquated_? 2. Is the difference between them a matter of time? Give examples. 3. Can a modern building be _antiquated_? Can it be _antique_? 4. What is the significance of _quaint_?
EXAMPLES.
My copper lamps, at any rate, For being true ----, I bought.
I do love these ---- ruins, We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
ANXIETY (page 49).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _anxiety_ in the primary sense? Is it mental or physical? 2.
How does _anxiety_ differ from _anguish_? 3. What kind of possibility does _anxiety_ always suggest? 4. How does it differ from _apprehension_, _fear_, _dread_, etc., in this regard? 5. What is _worry_? _fretfulness_? 6. Does _perplexity_ involve anxiety?
EXAMPLES.
Yield not to ---- the future, weep not for the past.
Superst.i.tion invested the slightest incidents of life with needless ----.
---- is harder than work, and far less profitable.
APATHY (page 50).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _apathy_? 2. How does it differ from the Saxon word _unfeelingness_? from _indifference_? from _insensibility_? from _unconcern_? 3. How does _stoicism_ differ from _apathy_?
EXAMPLES.
In lazy ---- let stoics boast Their virtue fixed: 'tis fixed as in a frost.
At length the morn and cold ---- came.
He sank into a ---- from which it was impossible to arouse him.
APOLOGY (page 51).
QUESTIONS.
1. What change of meaning has _apology_ undergone? 2. What does an _apology_ now always imply? 3. How does an _apology_ differ from an _excuse_? 4. Which of these words may refer to the future? 5. How does _confession_ differ from _apology_?
EXAMPLES.
---- only account for that which they do not alter.
Beauty is its own ---- for being.
There is no refuge from ---- but suicide; and suicide is ----.
APPARENT (page 52).
QUESTIONS.
1. What two contrasted senses arise from the root meaning of _apparent_?
2. What is implied when we speak of _apparent_ kindness or _apparent_ neglect? 3. How do _presumable_ and _probable_ differ? 4. What implication is conveyed in _seeming_? What do we suggest when we speak of "_seeming_ innocence"?
