ing ----.

Between those most widely separated by distance of place and time,
by language, station, occupation, and creed, there may yet be true
---- of soul.

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ACRIMONY (page 15).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _acerbity_ differ from _asperity_? _asperity_ from
_acrimony_? 2. How is _acrimony_ distinguished from _malignity_?
_malignity_ from _virulence_? 3. What is implied in the use of the word
_severity_?

EXAMPLES.

A certain ---- of speech had become habitual with him.

To this ill-timed request, he answered with sudden ----.

A constant sense of injustice may deepen into a settled ----.

This smooth and pleasing address veiled a deep ----.

Great ---- will be patiently borne if the sufferer is convinced of
its essential justice.

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ACT (page 16).

QUESTIONS.

1. How is _act_ distinguished from _action_? from _deed_? 2. Which of
the words in this group necessarily imply an external effect? Which may
be wholly mental?

EXAMPLES.

He who does the truth will need no instruction as to individual
----s.

---- is the truth of thought.

The ---- is done.

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ACTIVE (page 17).

QUESTIONS.

1. With what two sets of words is _active_ allied? 2. How does _active_
differ from _busy_? from _industrious_? 3. How do _active_ and
_restless_ compare? 4. To what sort of activity does _officious_ refer?
6. What are some chief antonyms of _active_?

EXAMPLES.

Being of an ---- disposition and without settled purpose or definite
occupation, she became ---- as a hornet.

He had his ---- days and hours, but could never be properly said to
be ----.

An ---- attendant instantly seized upon my baggage.

The true student is ---- from the mere love of learning,
independently of its rewards.

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ACUMEN (page 18).

QUESTIONS.

1. How do _sharpness_, _acuteness_, _penetration_, and _insight_ compare
with _acumen_? 2. What is the special characteristic of _acumen_? To
what order of mind does it belong? 3. What is _sagacity_? Is it
attributed to men or brutes? 4. What is _perspicacity_? 5. What is
_shrewdness_? Is it ordinarily good or evil? 6. Give illustrations of
the uses of the above words as regards the possessors of the
corresponding qualities.

EX