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ATt.i.tUDE (page 65).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _position_ as regards the human body differ from _att.i.tude_, _posture_, or _pose_? 2. Do the three latter words apply to the living or the dead? 3. What is the distinctive sense of _att.i.tude_? Is it conscious or unconscious? 4. How does _posture_ differ from _att.i.tude_?
5. What is the distinctive sense of _pose_? How does it differ from, and how does it agree with _att.i.tude_ and _posture_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- a.s.sumed indicated great indignation because of the insult implied.
The ---- was graceful and pleasing.
ATTRIBUTE, _v._ (page 65).
QUESTIONS.
1. What suggestion is often involved in _attribute_? 2. How does _attribute_ differ from _refer_ and _ascribe_? 3. Is _charge_ (in this connection) used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
---- ye greatness unto our G.o.d.
He ---- unworthy motives which proved a groundless charge.
ATTRIBUTE, _n._ (page 66).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation and the inherent meaning of _quality_? 2. What is an _attribute_? 3. Which of the above words expresses what necessarily belongs to the subject of which it is said to be an _attribute_ or _quality_? 4. What is the derivation and distinctive sense of _property_? 5. How does _property_ ordinarily differ from _quality_? 6. In what usage do _property_ and _quality_ become exact synonyms, and how are _properties_ then distinguished?
EXAMPLES.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The ---- to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
Nothing endures but personal ----s.
AVARICIOUS (page 68).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do _avaricious_ and _covetous_ differ from _miserly_, _n.i.g.g.ardly_, _parsimonious_, and _penurious_? 2. Of what matters are _greedy_ and _stingy_ used? How do they differ from each other?
EXAMPLES.
I am not ---- for gold; Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
It is better to be content with such things as ye have than to become ---- and ---- in acc.u.mulating.
AVENGE (page 69).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _avenge_? 2. How does _avenge_ differ from _revenge_?
3. Which word would be used of an act of G.o.d? 4. Is _retaliate_ used in the sense of _avenge_ or of _revenge_?
EXAMPLES.
O, that the vain remorse, which must chastise Crimes done, had but as loud a voice to warn As its keen sting is mortal to ----.
I lost mine eye laying the prize aboard, And therefore to ---- it, shalt thou die.
AVOW (page 69).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which words of this group refer exclusively to one's own knowledge or action? 2. What is the distinctive sense of _aver_? of _avouch_? of _avow_? 3. How do _avouch_ and _avow_ differ from _aver_ in construction? 4. Is _avow_ used in a good or a bad sense? What does it imply of others' probable feeling or action? 5. How does _avow_ compare with _confess_?
EXAMPLES.
And, but herself, ---- no parallel.
The child ---- his fault and was pardoned by his parent.
AWFUL (page 70).
