difference is there in the use of these words? 2. From what
language is _home_ derived? What is its distinctive meaning?
EXAMPLES.
An ---- giddy and unsure
Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
The attempt to abolish the ideal woman and keep the ideal ---- is a
predestinated failure.
A house without love may be a castle or a palace, but it is not a
----.
Love is the life of a true ----.
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HONEST (page 202).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _honest_ in ordinary use? 2. What is the
meaning of _honorable_? 3. How will the merely _honest_ and the truly
_honorable_ man differ in action? 4. What is _honest_ in the highest and
fullest sense? How, in this sense, does it differ from _honorable_?
EXAMPLES.
---- labor bears a lovely face.
An ---- man's the noblest work of God.
No form of pure, undisguised murder will be any longer allowed to
confound itself with the necessities of ---- warfare.
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HORIZONTAL (page 202).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _horizontal_ signify? How does it compare with _level_? 2.
From what language is _flat_ derived? 3. What is its original meaning?
its most common present sense? In what derived sense is it often used?
4. What are the senses of _plain_ and _plane_?
EXAMPLES.
Sun and moon were in the ---- sea sunk.
Ample spaces o'er the smooth and ---- pavement.
The prominent lines in Greek architecture were ----, and not
vertical.
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HUNT (page 203).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _hunt_? 2. For what is a _chase_ or _pursuit_ conducted? a
_search_? 3. What does _hunt_ ordinarily include? 4. Is it correct to
use _hunt_ when _search_ only is contemplated? 5. How are these words
used in the figurative senses?
EXAMPLES.
Among the inalienable rights of man are life, liberty, and the ----
of happiness.
All things have an end, and so did our ---- for lodgings.
The ---- formed the principal amusement of our Norman kings, who for
that purpose retained in their possession forests in every part of
the kingdom.
The ---- is up, but they shall know
The stag at bay's a dangerous foe.
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HYPOCRISY (page 204).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _pretense_ derived, and what does it sig
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