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ENVIOUS (page 155).

QUESTIONS.

1. What do we mean when we say that a person is _envious_? 2. What is
the difference between _envious_ and _jealous_? 3. Is an _envious_
spirit ever good? 4. Is _jealous_ capable of being used in a good
sense? 5. In what sense is _suspicious_ used?

EXAMPLES.

Neither be thou ---- against the workers of iniquity.

---- in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel.

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EQUIVOCAL (page 155).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the derivation and the original signification of _equivocal_?
of _ambiguous_? How do the two words compare in present use? 2. What is
the meaning of _enigmatical_? 3. How do _doubtful_ and _dubious_
compare? 4. In what sense is _questionable_ used? _suspicious_?

EXAMPLES.

These sentences, to sugar or to gall,
Being strong on both sides, are ----.

An ---- statement may result from the thoughtless use of a single
word that is capable of more than one meaning.

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ESTEEM, _n._ (page 157).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the difference between _esteem_ and _estimate_? 2. Is
_esteem_ now used of concrete valuation? 3. What is its chief present
use? 4. What is its meaning in popular use as said of persons?

EXAMPLES.

They please, are pleas'd; they give to get ----,
Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

The loss of conscience or honor is one that can not be ----.

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ETERNAL (page 157).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the meaning of _eternal_ in the fullest sense? 2. To what
being, in that sense, may it be applied? 3. In what does _everlasting_
fall short of the meaning of _eternal_? 4. How does _endless_ agree with
and differ from _everlasting_? 5. In what inferior senses are
_everlasting_ and _interminable_ used? 6. Is _eternal_, in good speech
or writing, ever brought down to such inferior use?

EXAMPLES.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,
The ---- years of God are hers.

Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from ----.

It were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured
to nothing with ---- motion.

Here comes the lady! Oh, so light a foot
Will ne'er wear out the ---- flint.

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EVENT (page 158).

QUESTIONS.

1. How do _even