dicancy_?

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POWER (page 279).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _power_? 2. Is _power_ limited to intelligent agents, or how
widely applied? 3. How does _ability_ compare with _power_? 4. What is
_capacity_, and how related to _power_ and to _ability_? 5. What is
_competency_? _faculty_? _talent_? 6. What are _dexterity_ and _skill_?
How are they related to _talent_? 7. What is _efficacy_? _efficiency_?

EXAMPLES.

Bismarck was the one great figure of all Europe, with more ---- for
good or evil than any other human being possessed at that time.

The soul, in its highest sense, is a vast ---- for God.

I reckon it is an oversight in a great body of metaphysicians that
they have been afraid to ascribe our apprehensions of ---- to
intuition. In consequence of this neglect, some never get the idea
of ----, but merely of succession, within the bare limits of
experience.

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PRAISE (page 280).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _praise_? By how many is it given, and how is it expressed?
2. What is _applause_? by how many given? and how expressed? 3. What is
_acclamation_? How does it differ from _applause_? 4. How does
_approbation_ differ from _praise_? 5. What does _approval_ add to the
meaning of _praise_? 6. How does _compliment_ compare with _praise_? 7.
What is _flattery_?

EXAMPLES.

The ---- of listening senates to command,
The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
And read their history in a nation's eyes.

---- no man e'er deserved who sought no more.

Gladly then he mixed
Among those friendly powers, who him received
With joy and ----s loud.

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PRAY (page 281).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _pray_ in the religious sense? 2. In what lighter and
more familiar sense may _pray_ be used? Is this latter use now common?

EXAMPLES.

Hesiod exhorted the husbandman to ---- for a harvest, but to do so
with his hand upon the plow.

I kneel, and then ---- her blessing.

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PRECARIOUS (page 282).

QUESTIONS.

1. To what is the term _uncertain_ applied? 2. What did _precarious_
originally signify? How is it now used, and how does it differ from
_uncertain_?

EXAMPLES.

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