s there to ----
Russia from annexing nearly the whole of China?

There appears to be no way to ---- the difficulty.

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PREVIOUS (page 285).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _antecedent_ denote? 2. How does _preceding_ differ from
_antecedent_ and _previous_? 3. How is _anterior_ commonly used?
_prior_? 4. Of what is _former_ used? What does _former_ always imply?

EXAMPLES.

These matters have been fully explained in ---- chapters of this
work.

The reader will be helped to an understanding of this process by a
careful study of the diagram on the ---- page.

In ---- times many things were attributed to witchcraft that now
have a scientific explanation.

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PRICE (page 285).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the _cost_ of an article? the _price_? 2. How do _cost_ and
_price_ ordinarily differ? 3. In what exceptional case may _cost_ and
_price_ agree? 4. What does _price_ always imply? 5. What is the meaning
of _value_? How does market _value_ differ from intrinsic _value_? 6.
How does _value_ differ from _worth_? 7. To what are _charge_ and
_expense_ ordinarily applied?

EXAMPLES.

---- is the life-giving power of anything; ----, the quantity of
labor required to produce it; ----, the quantity of labor which its
possessor will take in exchange for it.

No man can permanently do business by making the ---- of his goods
the same as their ---- to him, however such a method may help him
momentarily in an emergency.

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PRIDE (page 286).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _pride_? _haughtiness_? _arrogance_? _disdain_? How do these
qualities compare with _pride_? 2. What does _superciliousness_ imply
according to its etymology? 3. How do _pride_ and _vanity_ differ? 4.
What difference is noted between _self-conceit_ and _conceit_? 5. How do
_self-respect_ and _self-esteem_ compare with each other and with the
other words of the group?

EXAMPLES.

---- may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

There is nothing ---- can so little bear with as ---- itself.

---- is as ill at ease under indifference, as tenderness is under
the love which it can not return.

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PRIMEVAL (page 287).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the derivation and signification of _aboriginal_?
_autochthonic_? _primeva