ed.

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ABSOLVE (page 9).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the original sense of _absolve_? 2. To what does it apply? 3.
What is its special sense when used with reference to sins? 4. How does
it differ from _acquit_? _forgive_? _justify_? _pardon_? 5. What are the
chief antonyms of _absolve_?

EXAMPLES.

No power under heaven can ---- a man from his personal
responsibility.

When the facts were known, he was ---- of all blame.

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ABSORB (page 9).

QUESTIONS.

1. When is a fluid said to be _absorbed_? 2. Is the substance of the
_absorbing_ body changed by that which it _absorbs_? Give instances. 3.
How does _consume_ differ from _absorb_? 4. Give instances of the
distinctive uses of _engross_, _swallow_, _imbibe_, and _absorb_ in the
figurative sense. 5. What is the difference between _absorb_ and _emit_?
_absorb_ and _radiate_?

EXAMPLES.

Tho the fuel was rapidly ---- within the furnace, very little heat
was ---- from the outer surface.

In setting steel rails special provision must be made for their
expansion under the influence of the heat that they ----.

Jip stood on the table and barked at Traddles so persistently that
he may be said to have ---- the conversation.

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ABSTINENCE (page 10).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _abstinence_ differ from _abstemiousness_? from
_self-denial_? 2. What is _temperance_ regarding things lawful and
worthy? regarding things vicious and injurious? 3. What is the more
exact term for the proper course regarding evil indulgences?

EXAMPLES.

He was so moderate in his desires that his ---- seemed to cost him
no ----.

Among the Anglo-Saxons the idea of universal and total ---- from all
intoxicants is little more than a century old.

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ABSTRACT, _v._; ABSTRACTED (page 10, 11).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the difference between _abstract_ and _separate_? between
_discriminate_ and _distinguish_?[C] 2. How does _abstract_, when said
of the mind, differ from _divert_? from _distract_? 3. How do
_abstracted_, _absorbed_, and _preoccupied_ differ from _absent-minded_?
4. Can one who is _preoccupied_ be said to be _listless_ or
_thoughtless_? one who is _absent-minded_?

EXAMPLES.

He was so ---- with these perplexities as to be completely ----