osper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper none dare call it ----.

Whoever has once become notorious by base ----, even if he speaks
truth gains no belief.

The first and the worst of all ---- is to cheat oneself.

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FRIENDLY (page 178).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _friendly_ signify as applied to persons, or as applied to
acts? 2. How does the adjective _friendly_ compare in strength with the
noun _friend_? 3. What is the special meaning of _accessible_? of
_companionable_ and _sociable_? of _cordial_ and _genial_?

EXAMPLES.

He that hath friends must show himself ----.

A fellow feeling makes one wondrous ----.

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FRIENDSHIP (page 179).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _friendship_? 2. In what one quality does it differ from
_affection_, _attachment_, _devotion_, and _friendliness_? 3. What is
the meaning of _comity_ and _amity_? 4. How does _friendship_ differ
from _love_?

EXAMPLES.

Talk not of wasted ----, ---- never was wasted;
If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning
Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of
refreshment.

----, peculiar boon of heaven,
The noble mind's delight and pride,
To men and angels only given,
To all the lower world denied.

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FRIGHTEN (page 180).

QUESTIONS.

1. By what is one _frightened_? by what _intimidated_? 2. What is it to
_browbeat_ or _cow_? 3. What is it to _scare_ or _terrify_?

EXAMPLES.

The child was ---- by the stories the nurse told.

The loud, loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep--
Shake the firm nerve, ---- the bravest soul!

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FRUGALITY (page 180).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _economy_? 2. What is _frugality_? 3. What is _parsimony_?
How does it compare with _frugality_? What is the motive of _parsimony_?
4. What is _miserliness_? 5. What is the special characteristic of
_prudence_ and _providence_? of _thrift_? 6. What is the motive of
_economy_?

EXAMPLES.

There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in
raising, increase of ---- in laying out.

By close ---- the little home was at last paid for and there was a
great thanksgiving time.

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GARRULOUS (page 181).

QUES