n.

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PLENTIFUL (page 276).

QUESTIONS.

1. What kind of a term is _enough_, and what does it mean? 2. How does
_sufficient_ compare with _enough_? 3. What is _ample_? 4. To what do
_abundant_, _ample_, _liberal_, and _plentiful_ apply? 5. How is
_copious_ used? _affluent_? _plentiful_? 6. What does _complete_
express? 7. In what sense are _lavish_ and _profuse_ employed? 8. To
what is _luxuriant_ applied?

EXAMPLES.

My ---- joys,
Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.

Can anybody remember when the right sort of men and the right sort
of women were ----?

Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all,
The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received,
And is ---- for both.

He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb
Of tenfold adamant, his ---- shield.

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POETRY (page 277).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _poetry_? 2. Does _poetry_ involve _rime_? Does it require
_meter_? 3. What is imperatively required beyond _verse_, _rime_, or
_meter_ to constitute _poetry_?

EXAMPLES.

---- is rhythmical, imaginative language, expressing the invention,
taste, thought, passion, and insight of a human soul.

He knew
Himself to sing, and build the lofty ----.

And ever against eating cares,
Lap me in soft Lydian airs,
Married to immortal ----.

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POLITE (page 277).

QUESTIONS.

1. What are the characteristics of a _civil_ person? What more is found
in one who is _polite_? 2. How does _courteous_ compare with _civil_? 3.
What does _courtly_ signify? _genteel_? _urbane_? 4. In what sense is
_polished_ used? _complaisant_?

EXAMPLES.

She is not ---- for the sake of seeming ----, but ---- for the sake
of being kind.

He was so generally ---- that nobody thanked him for it.

Her air, her manners, all who saw admired; ---- tho coy, and gentle
tho retired.

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POVERTY (page 279).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _poverty_ strictly denote? What does it signify in ordinary
use? 2. What does _privation_ signify? How does it compare with
_distress_? 3. What is _indigence_? _destitution_? _penury_? 4. What
does _pauperism_ properly signify? How does it differ from _beggary_ and
_men