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QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _entrance_ refer? 2. What do _admittance_ and _admission_ add to the meaning of _entrance_? 3. To what does _admittance_ refer? To what additional matters does _admission_ refer?
Ill.u.s.trate. 4. What is the figurative use of _entrance_?
EXAMPLES.
---- was obtained by a side-door, and a good position secured to the crowded hall.
No ---- except on business.
He was never so engrossed with cares of state that the needy could not have ---- to him.
However carefully church-members.h.i.+p may be guarded, unworthy members will sometimes gain ----.
ENVIOUS (page 155).
QUESTIONS.
1. What do we mean when we say that a person is _envious_? 2. What is the difference between _envious_ and _jealous_? 3. Is an _envious_ spirit ever good? 4. Is _jealous_ capable of being used in a good sense? 5. In what sense is _suspicious_ used?
EXAMPLES.
Neither be thou ---- against the workers of iniquity.
---- in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel.
EQUIVOCAL (page 155).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation and the original signification of _equivocal_?
of _ambiguous_? How do the two words compare in present use? 2. What is the meaning of _enigmatical_? 3. How do _doubtful_ and _dubious_ compare? 4. In what sense is _questionable_ used? _suspicious_?
EXAMPLES.
These sentences, to sugar or to gall, Being strong on both sides, are ----.
An ---- statement may result from the thoughtless use of a single word that is capable of more than one meaning.
ESTEEM, _n._ (page 157).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _esteem_ and _estimate_? 2. Is _esteem_ now used of concrete valuation? 3. What is its chief present use? 4. What is its meaning in popular use as said of persons?
EXAMPLES.
They please, are pleas'd; they give to get ----, Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
The loss of conscience or honor is one that can not be ----.
ETERNAL (page 157).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _eternal_ in the fullest sense? 2. To what being, in that sense, may it be applied? 3. In what does _everlasting_ fall short of the meaning of _eternal_? 4. How does _endless_ agree with and differ from _everlasting_? 5. In what inferior senses are _everlasting_ and _interminable_ used? 6. Is _eternal_, in good speech or writing, ever brought down to such inferior use?
EXAMPLES.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again, The ---- years of G.o.d are hers.
Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from ----.
It were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with ---- motion.
Here comes the lady! Oh, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the ---- flint.
EVENT (page 158).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do _event_ and _incident_ differ etymologically? 2. Which is the greater and more important? Give examples. 3. How does _circ.u.mstance_ compare with _incident_? 4. What is the primary meaning of _occurrence_?
5. What is an _episode_? 6. How does _event_ differ from _end_? 7. What meaning does _event_ often have when applied to the future?
EXAMPLES.
Fate shall yield To fickle ----, and Chaos judge the strife.
