ctive sense of _noxious_? 5. How does
_noxious_ compare with _noisome_?

EXAMPLES.

Inflaming wine, ---- to mankind.

So bees with smoke, and doves with ---- stench,
Are from their hives, and houses, driven away.

The strong smell of sulfur, and a choking sensation of the lungs
indicated the presence of ---- gases.

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PERPLEXITY (page 270).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _perplexity_? _confusion_? How do the two words compare? 2.
How do _bewilderment_ and _confusion_ compare? 3. From what does
_amazement_ result?

EXAMPLES.

CAIUS.--Vere is mine host _de Jarterre_?
HOST.--Here, master doctor, in ---- and doubtful dilemma.

There is such ---- in my powers
As, after some oration fairly spoke
By a beloved prince, there doth appear
Among the buzzing, pleased multitude.

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PERSUADE (page 271).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _convince_ denote? How does it differ from the other words
of the group? 2. What is it to _persuade_? 3. How is _convincing_
related to _persuasion_? 4. How does _coax_ compare with _persuade_?

EXAMPLES.

A long train of these practises has at length unwillingly ---- me
that there is something hid behind the throne greater than the king
himself.

He had a head to contrive, a tongue to ----, and a hand to execute
any mischief.

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PERVERSE (page 272).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the etymological meaning of _perverse_? What does it signify
in common use? 2. What does _petulant_ signify? _wayward_?

EXAMPLES.

And you, my lords--methinks you do not well,
To bear with their ---- objections.

Whining, purblind, ---- boy!

Good Lord! what madness rules in brainsick men
When, for so slight and frivolous a cause,
Such ---- emulations shall arise.

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PHYSICAL (page 272).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _material_ signify? 2. What idea does _physical_ add to
that contained in _material_? 3. To what do _bodily_, _corporal_, and
_corporeal_ apply? 4. How do _bodily_ and _corporal_ differ from
_corporeal_? 5. To what is _corporal_ now for the most part limited?

EXAMPLES.

---- punishment is practically abandoned in the greater number of
American schools.

Man has two parts, the one ---- and earthly, the other im