l_? 2. What do _prime_ and _primary_ denote?
What special sense has _primary_ as in reference to a school? 3. How is
_primordial_ used? 4. What does _primitive_ suggest, as in the
expressions, the _primitive_ church, _primitive_ simplicity? 5. What is
_pristine_? 6. How do _native_ and _indigenous_ compare?

EXAMPLES.

Thou from ---- nothingness didst call
First chaos, then existence, Lord.

The ---- inhabitants of America are long since extinct, for even the
races whom the white men conquered had themselves supplanted an
earlier race.

All the later ages have wondered at and admired the whole-souled
consecration of the ---- church.

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PROFIT (page 288).

QUESTIONS.

1. What are _returns_ or _receipts_? 2. What is _profit_ in the
commercial sense? What in the intellectual and moral sense? 3. What is
_utility_? 4. What does _advantage_ originally signify? Does it now
necessarily imply having or gaining superiority to another person, or
securing anything at another's expense? 5. What is _gain_? _benefit_?
_emolument_? 6. To what does _expediency_ especially refer?

EXAMPLES.

Silence has many ----s.

No man can read with ---- that which he can not learn to read with
pleasure.

Godliness with contentment is great ----.

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PROGRESS (page 289).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _progress_? 2. What do _attainment_, _proficiency_, and
_development_ imply? 3. What is _advance_? How does it differ from
_progress_?

EXAMPLES.

What is thy ---- compared with an Alexander's, a Mahomet's, a
Napoleon's?

And dreams in their ---- have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.

Human ---- consists in a continual increase in the number of those
who, ceasing to live by the animal life alone and to feel the
pleasures of sense only, come to participate in the intellectual
life also.

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PROHIBIT (page 290).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _prohibit_? 2. How does _forbid_ compare with
_prohibit_? 3. How does _prohibit_ compare with _prevent_?

EXAMPLES.

Tho much I want which most would have,
Yet still my mind ---- to crave.

The laws of England, from the early Plantagenets, sternly ---- the
conversion of malt into alcohol, excepting a small portion for
medicinal purposes.