y?

EXAMPLES.

It is almost an ---- that those who do most for the heathen abroad
are most liberal for the heathen at home.

Trifling ----s clothed in great, swelling words of vanity.

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BABBLE (page 71).

QUESTIONS.

1. To what class do most of the words in this group belong? Why are they
so called? 2. What is the special significance of _blab_ and _blurt_?
How do they differ from each other in use? 3. What is _chat_? 4. How
does _prattling_ differ from _chatting_? 5. In what sense is _jabber_
used? How does it compare with _chatter_?

EXAMPLES.

"The crane," I said, "may ---- of the crane,
The dove may ---- of the dove."

Two women sat contentedly ----ing, one of them amusing a ----ing
babe.

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BANISH (page 72).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what land may one be _banished_? From what _expatriated_ or
_exiled_? 2. By whom may one be said to be _banished_? by whom
_expatriated_ or _exiled_? 3. Which of these words is of widest import?
Give examples of its metaphorical use.

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BANK (page 72).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _beach_? a _coast_? 2. How does each of the above words
differ from _bank_? 3. What is the distinctive sense of _strand_? In
what style of writing is it most commonly used? 4. What are the
distinctive senses of _edge_ and _brink_?

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BANTER (page 73).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _banter_? 2. How is _badinage_ distinguished from _banter_?
_raillery_ from both? 3. What is the distinctive sense of _irony_? 4. Is
_irony_ kindly or the reverse? _badinage_? _banter_? 5. What words of
this group are distinctly hostile? 6. Is _ridicule_ or _derision_ the
stronger word? What is the distinction between the two? between _satire_
and _sarcasm_? between _chaff_, _jeering_, and _mockery_?

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BARBAROUS (page 73).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the meaning of _barbarian_? 2. What is the added significance
of _barbaric_? 3. How does _barbarous_ in general use differ from both
the above words? 4. What special element is commonly implied in
_savage_? 5. In what less opprobrious sense may _barbarous_ and _savage_
be used? Give instances.

EXAMPLES.

A multitude like which the populous North
Poured never from her frozen loins, to pass
Rhene or the Danaw,