ation.

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FIERCE (page 171).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _fierce_ signify? 2. To what does _ferocious_ refer? How do
the two words differ? 3. What does _savage_ signify?

EXAMPLES.

---- was the day; the wintry sea
Moaned sadly on New England's strand,
When first the thoughtful and the free,
Our fathers, trod the desert land.

Contentions ----,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

The ---- savages massacred the survivors to the last man.

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FINANCIAL (page 172).

QUESTIONS.

1. To what does _monetary_ directly refer? 2. How does _pecuniary_ agree
with and differ from _monetary_? 3. To what does _financial_ especially
apply? 4. In what connection is _fiscal_ most commonly used?

EXAMPLES.

The ---- year closes with the society out of debt.

He was rejoiced to receive the ---- aid at a time when it was most
needed.

In a ---- panic, many a sound business house goes down for want of
power to realize instantly on valuable securities.

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FINE (page 172).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what is _fine_ derived, and what is its original meaning? 2.
How, from this primary meaning does _fine_ become a synonym of
_excellent_ and _beautiful_? 3. How does it come into connection with
_clarified_, _clear_, _pure_, _refined_? 4. How is it connected with
_dainty_, _delicate_, and _exquisite_? 5. How does _fine_ come to be a
synonym for _minute_, _comminuted_? How for _filmy_, _tenuous_? for
_keen_, _sharp_? Give instances of the use of _fine_ in its various
senses.

EXAMPLES.

Some people are more ---- than wise.

---- feathers do not always make ---- birds.

The ----est balances must be kept under glass, because so ----ly
adjusted as to be ---- to a film of dust or a breath of air.

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FIRE (page 173).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the essential fact underlying the visible phenomena which we
call _fire_? 2. What is _combustion_? 3. How wide is its range of
meaning? 4. What is a _conflagration_?

EXAMPLES.

He's gone, and who knows how he may report
Thy words by adding fuel to the ----?

Lo! as he comes, in Heaven's array,
And scattering wide the ---- of day.

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FLOCK (page 173).