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By constant ββ the most difficult feats may be done with no apparent ββ.
EXPENSE (page 162). QUESTIONS.1. What is cost? expense? 2. How are these words now commonly differentiated? 3. What is the meaning of outlay? of outgo?
EXAMPLES.Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the ββ, whether he have sufficient to finish it.
The entire receipts have not equaled the ββ.
When the ββ is more than the income, if the income can not be increased, it becomes an absolute necessity to reduce the ββ.
EXPLICIT (page 162). QUESTIONS.1. To what are explicit and express alike opposed? 2. How do the two words differ from each other?
EXAMPLES.I came here at this critical juncture by the ββ order of Sir John St. Clare.
The language of the proposition was too ββ to admit of doubt.
Now the Spirit speaketh ββly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith.
EXTEMPORANEOUS (page 163). QUESTIONS.1. What did extemporaneous originally mean? 2. What has it now come to signify in common use? 3. What is the original meaning of impromptu? The present meaning? 4. How does the impromptu remark often differ from the extemporaneous? 5. How does unpremeditated compare with the words above mentioned?
EXAMPLES.In ββ prayer, what men most admire, God least regardeth.
As a speaker, he excelled in ββ address, while his opponent was at a loss to answer him because not gifted in the same way.
He carolled light as lark at morn,
And poured to lord and lady gay
The ββ lay.
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EXTERMINATE (page 163). QUESTIONS.1. What is the derivation, and what is the original meaning of exterminate? eradicate? extirpate? 2. To what are these words severally applied?
EXAMPLES.Since the building of the Pacific railroads in the United States, the buffalo has been quite ββ.
The evil of intemperance is one exceedingly difficult to ββ.
No inveterate improver should ever tempt me to ββ the dandelions from the green carpet of my lawn.
FAINT (page 164). QUESTIONS.1. What are the chief meanings of faint? 2. How is faint a synonym of feeble or purposeless? of irresolute or timid? of dim, faded, or indistinct?
EXAMPLES.And we can combat even with the brave.
With which his ββ steps he stayed still;
For he was ββ with cold, and weak with eld;
That scarce his loosed limbs he hable was to weld.
FAITH (page 164). QUESTIONS.
1. What is belief? 2. How does credence compare with belief? 3. What is conviction? assurance? 4. What is an opinion? 5. How does a persuasion compare with an opinion? 6. What is a doctrine? a creed? 7. What are confidence and reliance? 8. What is trust? 9. What elements are combined in faith? 10. How is belief often used in popular language as a precise equivalent of faith? 11. How is belief discriminated from faith in the strict religious sense?
EXAMPLES.ββ is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Put not your ββ in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
ββ is largely involuntary; a mathematical demonstration can not be doubted by a sane mind capable of understanding the terms and following the steps.
Every one of us, whatever our speculative ββ, knows better than he practises, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
There are few greater dangers for an army in the face of an enemy than undue ββ.
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FAITHFUL (page 165). QUESTIONS.1. In what sense may a person be called faithful? 2. In what sense may one be called trusty? 3. Is faithful commonly said of things as well as persons? is trusty? 4. What is the special difference of meaning between the two words? Give examples.
EXAMPLES.Be thou ββ unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Who does the best his circumstance allows
Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.
FAME (page 166). QUESTIONS.
1. What is fame? Is it commonly used in the favorable or unfavorable sense? 2. What are reputation and repute, and in which sense commonly used? 3. What is notoriety? 4. From what do eminence and distinction result? 5. How does celebrity compare with fame? 6. How does renown compare with fame? 7. What is the import of honor? of glory?
EXAMPLES.Saying, Amen: Blessing and ββ, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and ββ, and power and might, be unto our God for ever and ever.
A good ββ is more valuable than money.
Too mighty such monopoly of ββ.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it ββ.
Even in the cannon's mouth.
FANATICISM (page 166). QUESTIONS.
1. What is fanaticism? bigotry? 2. What do fanaticism and bigotry commonly include? 3. What is intolerance? 4. What is the distinctive meaning of superstition? 5. What is credulity? Is it distinctively religious?
EXAMPLES.ββ is a senseless fear of God.
The fierce ββ of the Moslems was the mainspring of their early conquests.
The ββ that will believe nothing contrary to a creed is often joined with a blind ββ that will believe anything in favor of it.
FANCIFUL (page 167). QUESTIONS.1. What is the meaning of fanciful? 2. What does fantastic add to the meaning of fanciful? 3. How does grotesque especially differ from the fanciful or fantastic? 4. How does visionary differ from fanciful?[433]
EXAMPLES.... his wild work;
So ββ, so savage, naught cares he
For number or proportion.
When falling leaves falter through motionless air
Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!
As make the angels weep.
FANCY (page 167). QUESTIONS.
1. What is an intellectual fancy? 2. How does a conceit differ from a fancy? a conception from both? 3. What is an emotional or personal fancy? 4. What is fancy as a faculty of the mind?
EXAMPLES.Or in the heart or in the head?
Elizabeth united the occasional ββ of her sex with that sense and sound policy in which neither man nor woman ever excelled her.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one ββ, and that is a wrong one.
If she were to take a ββ to anybody in the house, she would soon settle, but not till then.
FAREWELL (page 168). QUESTIONS.1. To what language do farewell and good-by belong etymologically? How do they differ? 2. From what language have adieu and congΓ© been adopted into English? 3. What is the special significance of congΓ©? 4. What are valediction and valedictory?
EXAMPLES.I've only room for yours sincerely.
But Marmion stopped to bid ββ.
A sound which makes us linger;βyetβββ.
FEAR (page 168). QUESTIONS.
1. What is the generic term of this group? 2. What is fear? Is it sudden or lingering? In view of what class of dangers? 3. What is the etymological meaning of horror? What does the word signify in accepted usage? 4. What are the characteristics of affright, fright, and terror? 5. How is fear contrasted with fright and terror in actual or possible effects? 6. What is panic? What of the numbers affected by it? 7. What is dismay? How does it compare with fright and terror?[434]
EXAMPLES.Even the bravest men may be swept along in a sudden ββ.
I view the fight than thou that mak'st the fray.
In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;
No ββ lest he should swerve or faint.
The ghastly spectacle filled every beholder with ββ.
A lingering ββ crept upon him as he waited in the darkness.
FEMININE (page 169). QUESTIONS.1. How are female and feminine discriminated? 2. What is the difference between a female voice and a feminine voice? 3. How are womanly and womanish discriminated in use?
EXAMPLES.Notice, too, how precious are these ββ qualities in the sick room.
The demand for closet-room is no mere ββ fancy, but the good sense of the sex.
FETTER (page 169). QUESTIONS.1. What are fetters in the primary sense? 2. What are manacles and handcuffs designed to fasten or hold? gyves? 3. What are shackles and what are they intended to fasten or hold? 4. Of what material are all these restraining devices commonly composed? By what general name are they popularly known? 5. What are bonds and of what material composed? 6. Which of these words are used in the metaphorical sense?
EXAMPLES.Bound in those icy ββ by thee.
FEUD (page 170). QUESTIONS.
1. What is a feud? Of what is it used? 2. Is a quarrel in word or act? contention? strife? contest? 3. How does quarrel compare in importance with the other words cited? 4. What does an affray always involve? To what may a brawl or broil be confined? 5. How do these words compare in dignity with contention, contest, controversy, and dissension?
EXAMPLES.We should agree as angels do above.
"There is a ββ of five hundred years."
Beware of entrance to a ββ.
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FICTION (page 170). QUESTIONS.1. What is a fiction in the most common modern meaning of the word? 2. How does a fiction differ from a novel? from a fable? from a myth? 3. How does a myth differ from a legend? 4. How do falsehood and fabrication differ from the words above mentioned? 5. Is fabrication or falsehood the more odious term? Which term is really the stronger? 6. What is a story? Is it good or bad, true or false? With what words of the group does it agree?
EXAMPLES.Scenes of accomplished bliss.
A ββ strange is told of thee.
I believe the whole account from beginning to end to be a pure ββ.
A thing sustained by such substantial evidence could not be a mere ββ of the imagination.
FIERCE (page 171). QUESTIONS.1. What does fierce signify? 2. To what does ferocious refer? How do the two words differ? 3. What does savage signify?
EXAMPLES.Moaned sadly on New England's strand,
When first the thoughtful and the free,
Our fathers, trod the desert land.
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
The ββ savages massacred the survivors to the last man.
FINANCIAL (page 172). QUESTIONS.1. To what does monetary directly refer? 2. How does pecuniary agree with and differ from monetary? 3. To what does financial especially apply? 4. In what connection is fiscal most commonly used?
EXAMPLES.The ββ year closes with the
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