ts or words mechanically and without
credit is to ----.

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RACY (page 299).

QUESTIONS.

1. To what does _racy_ in the first instance refer? _pungent_? 2. How
does _piquant_ differ from _pungent_? 3. How are these words and the
word _spicy_ used in reference to literary products?

EXAMPLES.

Pure mother English, ---- and fresh with idiomatic graces.

The atmosphere was strangely impregnated with the ---- odor of
burning peat.

The spruce, the cedar, and the juniper, with their balsamic breath,
filled the air with a ---- fragrance.

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RADICAL (page 299).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the primary meaning of _radical_? 2. What contrasted senses
are derived from this primary meaning?

EXAMPLES.

Timidity is a ---- defect in a reformer.

Social and political leaders look to vested interests, and hence are
inclined to regard all ---- measures as ----.

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RARE (page 300).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the meaning of _unique_? Can any one of a number of things of
the same kind be _unique_? 2. What is the primary meaning of _rare_?
What added sense is often blended with this primary meaning? 3. Is
_extraordinary_ favorable or unfavorable in meaning?

EXAMPLES.

Nothing is so ---- as time.

That which gives to the Jews their ---- position among the nations
is what we are accustomed to regard as their sacred history.

And what is so ---- as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days.

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REACH (page 300).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _reach_ in the sense here considered? 2. What is it to
_arrive_? 3. What does _attain_ add to the meaning of _arrive_? What
does _gain_ add?

EXAMPLES.

And grasping down the boughs
I ----ed the shore.

He gathered the ripe nuts in the fall,
And berries that grew by fence and wall
So high she could not ---- them at all.

The heights by great men ----ed and kept
Were not ----ed by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

It is only in this way that we can hope to ---- at truth.

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REAL (page 301).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what is _real_ derived? What does it mean? 2. From what is the
_real_ disting