adherent_? 2. How does an _adherent_ differ from a
_supporter_? from a _disciple_? 3. How do both the above words differ
from _ally_? 4. Has _partisan_ a good or a bad sense, and why? 5. Is it
well to speak of a _supporter_ as a _backer_?

EXAMPLES.

Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to
draw away ----s after them.

Woman is woman's natural ----.

Self-defense compelled the European nations to be ----s against
Napoleon.

The deposed monarch was found to have a strong body of ----s.

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ADJACENT (page 22).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the difference between _adjacent_ and _adjoining_?
_contiguous_? _conterminous_? 2. What distance is implied in _near_?
_neighboring_? 3. What does _next_ always imply? 4. Give antonyms of
_adjacent_; _near_.

EXAMPLES.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,
As they draw ---- to their eternal home.

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ADMIRE (page 23).

QUESTIONS.

1. In what sense was _admire_ formerly used? What does it now express?
2. How does _admire_ compare with _revere_? _venerate_? _adore_? Give
instances of the use of these words.

EXAMPLES.

The beautiful are sure to be ----.

Henceforth the majesty of God ----;
Fear him, and you have nothing else to fear.

I value Science--none can prize it more,
It gives ten thousand motives to ----:
Be it religious, as it ought to be,
The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

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ADORN (page 23).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _adorn_ differ from _ornament_? from _garnish_? from _deck_
or _bedeck_? from _decorate_?

EXAMPLES.

At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
His looks ---- the venerable place.

The red breast oft, at evening hours,
Shall kindly lend his little aid,
With hoary moss, and gathered flowers,
To ---- the ground where thou art laid.

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AFFRONT (page 24).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _affront_? 2. How does _affront_ compare with _insult_?
with _tease_? _annoy_?

EXAMPLES.

It is safer to ---- some people than to oblige them; for the better
a man deserves, the worse they will speak of him.

Oh, rather give me commentators plain,
Who with no deep researches ---- the brain.

The petty desire to ---- is sim