TIONS.

1. What does _garrulous_ signify? _chattering_? 2. How do _talkative_
and _loquacious_ differ from _garrulous_, and from each other? 3. What
is the special application of _verbose_?

EXAMPLES.

To tame a shrew, and charm her ---- tongue.

Guard against a feeble fluency, a ---- prosiness, a facility of
saying nothing.

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GENDER (page 181).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _sex_? 2. To what beings only does _sex_ apply? 3. What is
_gender_? To what does it apply? Do the distinctions of _gender_
correspond to the distinctions of _sex_? Give examples of languages
containing three _genders_, and of the classification in languages
containing but two.

EXAMPLES.

The maternal relation naturally and necessarily divides the work of
the ----s giving to woman the indoor life, and to man, the work of
the outer world.

While in French every word is either of the masculine or feminine
----, the language sometimes fails for that very reason to indicate
the ---- of some person referred to.

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GENERAL (page 181).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _general_ signify? 2. How does _general_ compare with
_universal_? with _common_? 3. What illustrations of the differences are
given in the text?

EXAMPLES.

---- friendships will admit of division, one may love the beauty of
this, the good humor of that person, ... and so on.

A ---- feeling of unrest prevailed.

Death comes to all by ---- law.

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GENEROUS (page 182).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the primary meaning of _generous_? the common meaning? 2. How
does _generous_ differ from _liberal_? 3. What is the distinctive sense
of _munificent_? 4. What does _munificent_ tell of the motive or spirit
of the giver? What does _generous_ tell? 5. How does _disinterested_
compare with _generous_? 6. What is the distinctive meaning of
_magnanimous_? How does it differ from _generous_ as regards dealing
with insults or injuries?

EXAMPLES.

To cunning men
I will be very kind; and ----
To mine own children, in good bringing up.

A ---- friendship no cold medium knows,
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.

The conqueror proved as ---- in victory as he was terrible in
battle.

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