What is especially denoted by
_fearless_ and _intrepid_? 5. What does _valiant_ tell of results? 6.
What ideas are combined in _heroic_?

EXAMPLES.

A ---- man is also full of faith.

Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts,
In ---- youth we tempt the heights of Arts.

Thy danger chiefly lies in acting well;
No crime's so great as ---- to excel.

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BUSINESS (page 88).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the distinctive meaning of _barter_? 2. What does _business_
add to the meaning of _barter_? 3. What is _occupation_? Is it broader
than _business_? 4. What is a _vocation_? 5. What (in the strict sense)
is an _avocation_? 6. What is implied in _profession_? _pursuit_? 7.
What is a _transaction_? 8. How does _trade_ differ from _commerce_? 9.
What is _work_? 10. What is an _art_ in the industrial sense? a _craft_?

EXAMPLES.

A man must serve his time to every ----.

We turn to dust, and all our mightiest ----s die too.

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CALCULATE (page 90).

QUESTIONS.

1. How do you distinguish between _count_ and _calculate_? _compute_,
_reckon_ and _estimate_? 2. Which is used mostly with regard to future
probabilities? 3. Do we use _compute_ or _estimate_ of numbers exactly
known? 4. Of _compute_, _calculate_, and _estimate_, which is used with
especial reference to the future?

EXAMPLES.

There were 4046 men in the district, by actual ----.

The time of the eclipse was ---- to a second.

We ask them to ---- approximately the cost of the building.

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CALL (page 91).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the distinctive meaning of _call_? 2. Do we ever apply
_bellow_ and _roar_ to human sounds? 3. Can you give more than one sense
of _cry_? 4. Are _shout_ and _scream_ more or less expressive than
_call_? 5. Which of the words in this group are necessarily and which
ordinarily applied to articulate utterance? Which rarely, if ever, so
used?

EXAMPLES.

---- for the robin redbreast and the wren.

The pioneers could hear the savages ---- outside.

I ---- my servant and he came.

The captain ---- in a voice of thunder to the helmsman, "Put your
helm hard aport!"

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CALM (page 91).

QUESTIONS.

1. To what classes of objects or states of mind do we apply _calm_?
_collected_? _q