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REFINEMENT (page 305).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _civilization_ apply, and what does it denote? 2. What is _refinement_? 3. What is the primary meaning of _cultivation_? the derived meaning? 4. By what word is _cultivation_ now largely superseded? 5. What does _culture_ denote?
EXAMPLES.
What is ----? It is the humanization of man in society, the satisfaction for him in society of the true law of human nature.
Giving up wrong pleasure is not self-sacrifice, but self-----.
This refined taste is the consequence of education and habit; we are born only with a capacity of entertaining this ----.
RELIABLE (page 306).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is to be said of the controversy regarding the formation and use of the word _reliable_? 2. What do _trusty_ and _trustworthy_ denote? 3.
How does _reliable_ compare with these words? 4. What meaning may _reliable_ convey that _trusty_ and _trustworthy_ would not?
EXAMPLES.
Good lack! quoth he, yet bring it me My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my ---- sword, When I do exercise.
The first voyage to America, of which we have any perfectly ---- account, was performed by the Nors.e.m.e.n.
RELIGION (page 307).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original sense of _piety_? the derived sense? 2. What is _religion_? What does it include? 3. What is _wors.h.i.+p_? _devotion_? 4.
What is _morality_? _G.o.dliness_? _holiness_? 5. How is _theology_ related to _religion_?
EXAMPLES.
---- is man's belief in a being or beings, mightier than himself and inaccessible to his senses, but not indifferent to his sentiments and actions, with the feelings and practises which flow from such belief.
----, whose soul sincere Fears G.o.d, and knows no other fear.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make ---- impossible.
Systematic ---- may be defined as the substance of the Christian faith in a scientific form.
REND (page 309).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what are _rend_ and _tear_ usually applied? Which is the stronger word? 2. In what connection is _rive_ used, and in what sense? 3. What does _lacerate_ signify? 4. How does _mangle_ compare with _lacerate_?
5. What do _burst_ and _rupture_ signify? Which is the stronger word?
When is a steam-boiler said to be _ruptured_? 6. What does _rip_ signify?
EXAMPLES.
Storms do not ---- the sail that is furled.
Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow ---- a pa.s.sion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
And now a bubble ----s, and now a world.
The first blood shed in the revolutionary struggle; a mere drop in amount, but a deluge in its effects, ----ing the colonies forever from the mother country.
RENOUNCE (page 309).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _renounce_ derived, and in what sense used? _recant_?
_retract_? 2. What is it to _discard_? 3. How does _revoke_ compare with _recall_ in original meaning and in present use? 4. What is the derivation and the distinctive meaning of _abjure_? 5. In what sense is _repudiate_ used?
EXAMPLES.
On his knees, with his hand on the Bible, Galileo was compelled to ---- and curse the doctrine of the movement of the earth.
He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, ---- earth to forfeit heaven.
He had no spiritual adviser, no human comforter, and was entirely in the hands of those who were determined that he should ---- or die.
REPENTANCE (page 310).
