'm sick, I'm dead.

Adjust our lives to loss, make friends with pain,
---- all our shattered hopes and bid them bloom again.

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BITTER (page 81).

QUESTIONS.

1. How may _acid_, _bitter_, and _acrid_ be distinguished? _pungent_?
_caustic_? 2. In metaphorical use, how are _harsh_ and _bitter_
distinguished? 3. What is the special significance of _caustic_? 4. Give
examples of these words in their various uses.

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BLEACH (page 82).

QUESTIONS.

1. How do _bleach_ and _blanch_ differ from _whiten_? from each other?

EXAMPLES.

You can behold such sights,
And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,
When mine is ---- with fear.

We let the years go: wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to ---- out in the open day.

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BLEMISH (page 82).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _blemish_? 2. How does it differ from a _flaw_ or _taint_?
3. What is a _defect_? a _fault_? 4. Which words of this group are
naturally applied to reputation, and which to character?

EXAMPLES.

Every page enclosing in the midst
A square of text that looks a little ----.

The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous ----.

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BLUFF (page 83).

QUESTIONS.

1. In what sense are _bluff_, _frank_, and _open_ used? 2. In what sense
are _blunt_, _brusk_, _rough_, and _rude_ employed?

EXAMPLES.

There are to whom my satire seems too ----.

Stout once a month they march, a ---- band
And ever but in times of need, at hand.

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BOUNDARY (page 84).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the original sense of _boundary_? 2. How does it differ in
usage from _bound_ or _bounds_? 3. In what style and sense is _bourn_
used? 4. What is the distinctive meaning of _edge_?

EXAMPLES.

So these lives ...
Parted by ----s strong, but drawing nearer and nearer,
Rushed together at last, and one was lost in the other.

In worst extremes, and on the perilous ----
Of battle.

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BRAVE (page 85).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _brave_ differ from _courageous_? 2. What is the special
sense of _adventurous_? of _bold_? of _chivalrous_? 3. How do these
words differ from _venturesome_? 4.