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QUESTIONS.

1. What is the literal meaning of _term_? 2. Is this meaning retained in
the figurative uses of the word? 3. What are the _articles_ of a
contract? the _terms_ of a contract? 4. What is a _condition_? 5. What
is a _term_ in the logical sense? 6. How does _term_ in ordinary use
compare with _word_, _expression_, or _phrase_?

EXAMPLES.

For beauty's acme hath a ---- as brief
As the wave's poise before it break in pearl.

But what are these moral sermons [of Seneca]? ----s, nothing but
----s.

The very ---- miser is a confession of the misery which attends
avarice.

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TERSE (page 354).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the meaning of _short_ or _brief_? 2. What is the derivation
and meaning of _concise_? of _condensed_? of _compendious_? 3. What is
the derivation and meaning of _succinct_? of _terse_? 4. What is the
force of _summary_? 5. What is a _sententious_ style? a _pithy_
utterance?

EXAMPLES.

With all his lucidity of statement, Hamilton was not always ----.

In most cases it will be found that the Victorian idiom is clearer,
but less ---- than the corresponding Elizabethan idiom which it has
supplanted.

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TESTIMONY (page 355).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _testimony_? 2. How does it compare with _evidence_? 3. How
does a _deposition_ differ from an _affidavit_?

EXAMPLES.

The word ----, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which
any alleged matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to us
for investigation, is established or disproved.

As to the fruits of Sodom, fair without, full of ashes within, I saw
nothing of them, tho from the ---- we have, something of this kind
has been produced.

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TIME (page 356).

QUESTIONS.

1. To what do _sequence_ and _succession_ apply? 2. What does _time_
denote? How is it conceived of with reference to events? 3. How do
_duration_ and _succession_ compare with _time_?

EXAMPLES.

Every event remembered is remembered as having happened in ----
past. This gives us the idea in the concrete.... We can now, by a
process of abstraction, separate the ---- from the event, and we
have the abstract idea of _time_.

The ---- of each earthquake is measured generally only by seconds,
or even parts of a second.