?
2. How does _obstacle_ differ from _obstruction_? 3. What is a
_hindrance_? 4. Is an _impediment_ what one finds or what he carries? Is
it momentary or constant? What did the Latin _impedimenta_ signify? 5.
What is an _encumbrance_? How does it differ from an _obstacle_ or
_obstruction_? 6. Is a _difficulty_ within one or without?

EXAMPLES.

Something between a ---- and a help.

Thus far into the bowels of the land
Have we march'd without ----.

Demosthenes became the foremost orator of the world in spite of an
---- in his speech.

----s overcome are the stepping-stones by which great men rise.

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IMPUDENCE (page 213).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _impertinence_ primarily denote? What is its common
acceptation? 2. What is _impudence_? _insolence_? 3. What is
_officiousness_? 4. What does _rudeness_ suggest?

EXAMPLES.

With matchless ---- they style a wife
The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life.

It is better not to turn friendship into a system of lawful and
unpunishable ----.

A certain class of ill-natured people mistake ---- for frankness.

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INCONGRUOUS (page 214).

QUESTIONS.

1. When are things said to be _incongruous_? 2. To what is _discordant_
applied? _inharmonious_? 3. What does _incompatible_ signify? When are
things said to be _incompatible_? 4. To what does _inconsistent_ apply?
5. What illustrations of the uses of these words are given in the text?
6. What is the meaning of _incommensurable_?

EXAMPLES.

No solitude is so solitary as that of ---- companionship.

I hear a strain ---- as a merry dirge, or sacramental bacchanal
might be.

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INDUCTION (page 215).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _deduction_? _induction_? 2. What is the proof of an
_induction_? 3. What process is ordinarily followed in what is known as
scientific _induction_? 4. How do _deduction_ and _induction_ compare as
to the certainty of the conclusion? 5. How does an _induction_ compare
with an _inference_?

EXAMPLES.

The longer one studies a vast subject the more cautious in ---- he
becomes.

Perhaps the widest and best known ---- of Biology, is that organisms
grow.

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INDUSTRIOUS (page 215).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _busy_ differ from _indust