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PALLIATE (page 261).

QUESTIONS.

1. How do _cloak_ and _palliate_ agree in original meaning? How do they
differ in the derived senses? 2. What is it to _extenuate_, and how does
that word compare with _palliate_?

EXAMPLES.

Speak of me as I am; nothing ----
Nor aught set down in malice.

We would not dissemble nor ---- [our transgressions] before the face
of Almighty God, our heavenly Father.

I shall never attempt to ---- my own foibles by exposing the error
of another.

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PARDON, _v._ (page 262).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _pardon_? 2. To what does _forgive_ refer? 3. How do
_pardon_ and _forgive_ differ in use in accordance with the difference
in meaning? 4. What is it to _remit_? to _condone_? to _excuse_?

EXAMPLES.

How many will say ----,
And find a kind of license in the sound
To hate a little longer!

I ---- him, as heaven shall ---- me.

To err is human, to ----, divine.

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PARDON, _n._ (page 262).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _acquittal_? How does it differ from _pardon_ as regards the
person acquitted or pardoned? 2. Is an innocent person ever pardoned? 3.
What is _oblivion_? _amnesty_? _absolution_?

EXAMPLES.

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called ----.

----, not wrath, is God's best attribute.

---- to the injured does belong,
But they ne'er ---- who have done the wrong.

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PART, _n._ (page 264).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _part_? 2. What is a _fragment_? a _piece_? 3. What do
_division_ and _fraction_ signify? 4. What is a _portion_? 5. What is a
_share_? an _instalment_? a _particle_? 6. What do _component_,
_constituent_, _ingredient_, and _element_ signify? How do they differ
from one another? 7. What is a _subdivision_?

EXAMPLES.

The best ---- of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.

Spirits that live throughout,
Vital in every ---- ...
Can not but by annihilating die.

Many cheap houses were built to be sold by ----s.

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PARTICLE (page 264).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _particle_? 2. What does _atom_ etymologically signify?
What is its meaning in present