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EXAMPLES.
A ----, shy man was this pastor--a sort of living mummy, dried up and bleached by Icelandic snows.
In setting a hen, says Grose, the good women hold it an indispensable rule to put an ---- number of eggs.
Only a man of undoubted genius can afford to be ----.
The ---- architecture of these medieval towns has a strange fascination.
QUICKEN (page 297).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _accelerate_? to _despatch_? 2. What does the verb _speed_ signify? _hasten_? _hurry_? What does _hurry_ suggest in addition to the meaning of _hasten_?
EXAMPLES.
The motion of a falling body is continually ----ed.
The muster-place is Lanrick mead!
---- forth the signal! Norman, ----!
The pulsations of the heart are ----ed by exertion.
QUOTE (page 298).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _cite_ differ from _quote_? 2. What is it to _paraphrase_?
to _plagiarize_?
EXAMPLES.
A great man ---- bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
The Devil can ---- Scripture for his purpose.
To appropriate others' thoughts or words mechanically and without credit is to ----.
RACY (page 299).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _racy_ in the first instance refer? _pungent_? 2. How does _piquant_ differ from _pungent_? 3. How are these words and the word _spicy_ used in reference to literary products?
EXAMPLES.
Pure mother English, ---- and fresh with idiomatic graces.
The atmosphere was strangely impregnated with the ---- odor of burning peat.
The spruce, the cedar, and the juniper, with their balsamic breath, filled the air with a ---- fragrance.
RADICAL (page 299).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the primary meaning of _radical_? 2. What contrasted senses are derived from this primary meaning?
EXAMPLES.
Timidity is a ---- defect in a reformer.
Social and political leaders look to vested interests, and hence are inclined to regard all ---- measures as ----.
RARE (page 300).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _unique_? Can any one of a number of things of the same kind be _unique_? 2. What is the primary meaning of _rare_?
What added sense is often blended with this primary meaning? 3. Is _extraordinary_ favorable or unfavorable in meaning?
EXAMPLES.
Nothing is so ---- as time.
That which gives to the Jews their ---- position among the nations is what we are accustomed to regard as their sacred history.
