onger word?
When is a steam-boiler said to be _ruptured_? 6. What does _rip_
signify?

EXAMPLES.

Storms do not ---- the sail that is furled.

Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated
fellow ---- a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of
the groundlings.

And now a bubble ----s, and now a world.

The first blood shed in the revolutionary struggle; a mere drop in
amount, but a deluge in its effects, ----ing the colonies forever
from the mother country.

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RENOUNCE (page 309).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what is _renounce_ derived, and in what sense used? _recant_?
_retract_? 2. What is it to _discard_? 3. How does _revoke_ compare with
_recall_ in original meaning and in present use? 4. What is the
derivation and the distinctive meaning of _abjure_? 5. In what sense is
_repudiate_ used?

EXAMPLES.

On his knees, with his hand on the Bible, Galileo was compelled to
---- and curse the doctrine of the movement of the earth.

He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide,
---- earth to forfeit heaven.

He had no spiritual adviser, no human comforter, and was entirely in
the hands of those who were determined that he should ---- or die.

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REPENTANCE (page 310).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _regret_? 2. What does _penitence_ add to _regret_? 3. How
does _repentance_ surpass the meaning of _penitence_, _regret_,
_sorrow_, etc.? 4. What is _compunction_? _contrition_? 5. What is
_remorse_, and how does it compare with _repentance_?

EXAMPLES.

What then? what rests?
Try what ---- can: what can it not?

Forgive me, Valentine, if hearty ----
Be a sufficient ransom for offense,
I tender't here.

So writhes the mind ---- has riven,
Unmeet for earth, undoomed to heaven,
Darkness above, despair beneath,
Around it flame, within it death.

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REPROOF (page 311).

QUESTIONS.

1. Are _blame_, _censure_, and _disapproval_ spoken or silent? 2. Are
_comment_, _criticism_, _rebuke_, _reflection_, _reprehension_, and
_reproof_ expressed or not? 3. How of _admonition_ and _animadversion_?
4. Are _comment_ and _criticism_ favorable or unfavorable? Do they imply
superiority on the part of commentator or critic? 5. Do _reflection_ a