age 183).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _genius_? 2. What is _talent_? 3. Which is the higher
quality? 4. Which is the more dependent upon training?

EXAMPLES.

The eternal Master found
His single ---- well employ'd.

No great ---- was ever without some mixture of madness.

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GET (page 183).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a person said to _get_? 2. How is _get_ related to
expectation or desire? How is _gain_ related to those words? 3. By what
processes does one _acquire_? Is the thing _acquired_ sought or desired,
or not? 4. What does one _earn_? 5. Does a person always _get_ what he
_earns_ or always _earn_ what he _gets_? 6. What does _obtain_ imply? Is
the thing one _obtains_ an object of _desire_? How does _obtain_ differ
from _get_? 7. What does _win_ imply? How is one said to _win_ a suit at
law? What is the correct term in legal phrase? Why? 8. By what special
element does _procure_ differ from _obtain_? 9. What is especially
implied in _secure_?

EXAMPLES.

He ---- a living as umbrella mender but a poor living it is.

---- wisdom and with all thy getting, ---- understanding.

In the strange city he found that all his learning would not ----
him a dinner.

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GIFT (page 184).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _gift_? Is _gift_ used in the good or the bad sense? Does
the legal agree with the popular sense? 2. What synonymous word is
always used in the evil sense? 3. What is a _benefaction_? a _donation_?
What difference of usage is recognized between the two words? 4. What is
a _gratuity_, and to whom given? 5. What is the sense and use of
_largess_? 6. What is a _present_, and to whom given? 7. What is the
special sense of _boon_? 8. What is a _grant_, and by whom made?

EXAMPLES.

He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
Dominion absolute; that right we hold
By his ----.

True love's the ---- which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven.

"----, ----, noble knights," cried the heralds.

The courts of justice had fallen so low that it was practically
impossible to win a cause without a ----.

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GIVE (page 185).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the primary meaning of _give_? the secondary meaning? 2. Can
we _give_ what is undesired? 3. Can we _give_ what we are paid for? 4.
How is _give_ always understood when