e_? 2. How does _conjecture_ differ from
_suppose_? 3. What does _think_ signify in the sense here considered?
How does it compare with _conjecture_ or _suppose_?

EXAMPLES.

Newton ----ed that if the earth were to be so compressed as to be
absolutely without pores, its dimensions might not exceed a cubic
inch.

Let it not be ----ed that principles and opinions always go
together.

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SYNONYMOUS (page 349).

QUESTIONS.

1. Are there any _synonymous_ words in the strict sense of the term? 2.
What is meant by _synonymous_ words? 3. What are the two common faults
with reference to _synonymous_ words or _synonyms_?

EXAMPLES.

The great source of a loose style is the injudicious use of those
words termed ----.

To raise, with fitting observances, over the ruins of the historic
fortress [Sumter] the ---- flag which had waved over it during its
first bombardment.

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SYSTEM (page 350).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _order_, in the sense here considered? 2. What does _method_
denote? 3. What is a _system_? 4. To what does _manner_ refer? 5. To
what does _regularity_ apply? 6. Can there be _order_ without
_regularity_ or _regularity_ without _order_, and how?

EXAMPLES.

If this be madness, there is ---- in it.

A ---- is ... an organized body of truth, or truths arranged under
one and the same idea, which idea is as the life or soul which
assimilates all those truths.

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TEACH (page 353).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _teach_? 2. How does _instruct_ surpass _teach_ in
signification? 3. What secondary sense has _instruct_? 4. What is the
full meaning of _educate_? 5. What is it to _train_? 6. To what is
_train_ commonly applied where _educate_ could not well be used? 7. What
is it to _discipline_? 8. What does _nurture_ signify, and how does it
compare with _educate_?

EXAMPLES.

Plato returned to Athens and began to ----; like his master, he ----
without money and without price.

For the most effective mechanical work both mind and hand must be
----ed in childhood.

The Highlanders flocking to him from all quarters, though ill-armed,
and worse ----ed, made him undervalue any enemy who, he thought, was
yet to encounter him.

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TERM (page 354)