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EXAMPLE (page 160).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the etymological meaning of _example_? 2. What two
contradictory meanings does _example_ derive from this primary sense? 3.
How does _example_ differ from _sample_? 4. How does it compare with
_model_? with _pattern_? 5. How does _exemplar_ agree with, and differ
from _example_? 6. What is an _exemplification_? an _ensample_?

EXAMPLES.

I bid him look into the lives of men as tho himself a mirror, and
from others to take an ---- for himself.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops and the ---- which was
weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up
to-morrow.

History is an ---- of philosophy.

The commander was resolved to make an ---- to deter others from the
like offense.

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EXCESS (page 160).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _excess_? Is it used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?
2. What is _extravagance_? 3. What is _exorbitance_? 4. What kind of
_excess_ do _overplus_ and _superabundance_ denote? _lavishness_ and
_profusion_? 5. Is _surplus_ used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?
6. To what do _redundance_ and _redundancy_ chiefly refer? 7. What words
are used as synonyms of _excess_ in the moral sense?

EXAMPLES.

Saving requires self-denial, and ---- is the death of self-denial.

Where there is great ---- there usually follows corresponding ----.

---- of wealth is cause of covetousness.

Haste brings ----, and ---- brings want.

The ---- of the demand caused unfeigned surprise.

More of the present woes of the world are due to ---- than to any
other single cause.

---- of language often weakens the impression of what would be
impressive in sober statement.

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EXECUTE (page 161).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the meaning of _execute_? of _administer_? of _enforce_? 2.
How are the words applied in special cases? Give instances. 3. What
secondary meaning has _administer_?

EXAMPLES.

It is the place of the civil magistrate to ---- the laws.

The pasha gave a signal and three attendants seized the culprit, and
promptly ---- the bastinado.

I can not illustrate a moral duty without at the same time ----ing a
precept of our religion.

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EXERCISE (page 162).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is th