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QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _kill_? 2. To what are _a.s.sa.s.sinate_, _execute_, and _murder_ restricted? 3. What is the specific meaning of _murder_?
_execute_? _a.s.sa.s.sinate_? To what cla.s.s of persons is the latter word ordinarily applied? 4. What is it to _slay_? 5. To what is _ma.s.sacre_ limited? With what special meaning is it used? 6. To what do _butcher_ and _slaughter_ primarily apply? What is the sense of each when so used?
7. What is it to _despatch_?
EXAMPLES.
To look into her eyes was to ---- doubt.
Two presidents of the United States have been ----.
Hamilton was ---- in a duel by Aaron Burr.
The place was carried by storm, and the inhabitants ---- without distinction of age or s.e.x.
KIN (page 227).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _kind_ compare with _kin_? 2. What do _kin_ and _kindred_ denote? 3. What is _affinity_? How does it differ from _consanguinity_?
EXAMPLES.
A little more than ----, and less than ----.
He held his seat,--a friend to the human ----.
The patient bride, a little sad, Leaving of home and ----.
KNOWLEDGE (page 227).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _knowledge_? How does it differ from _information_? 2. What is _perception_? _apprehension_? _cognizance_? 3. What is _intuition_?
4. What is _experience_, and how does it differ from _intuition_? 5.
What is _learning_? _erudition_?
EXAMPLES.
---- comes, but wisdom lingers.
The child is continually seeking ----; hence his endless questions.
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical ----, And coming events cast their shadows before.
----s lie at the very foundation of all reasoning.
LANGUAGE (page 228).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation of _language_? What was its original signification? How wide is its present meaning? 2. As regards the use of words, what does _language_ denote in the general and in the restricted sense? 3. What does _speech_ always involve? 4. Can we speak of the _speech_ of animals? of their _language_? 5. What is a _dialect_? a _barbarism_? an _idiom_? 6. What is a _patois_? How does it differ from a _dialect_? 7. What is a _vernacular_?
EXAMPLES.
We must be free or die, who speak the ---- That Shakespeare spake: the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
---- is great; but silence is greater.
An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light, And with no ---- but a cry.
Thought leapt out to wed with Thought, Ere Thought could wed itself with ----.
A Babylonish ---- Which learned pedants much affect.
O! good, my lord, no Latin; I'm not such a truant since my coming As not to know the ---- I have lived in.
LARGE (page 229).
QUESTIONS.
1. To how many dimensions does _large_ apply? How does it differ from _long_? 2. How does _large_ compare with _great_? with _big_?
EXAMPLES.
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those ---- in war, are ---- in love.
Everything is twice as ---- measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale as on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.
And his ---- manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, Pipes and whistles in its sound.
