ply a perversion of the human love of
power.

They rushed to meet the ---- foe.

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AGENT (page 24).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _agent_ in the philosophical sense compare with _mover_ or
_doer_? 2. What different sense has it in business usage?

EXAMPLES.

That morality may mean anything, man must be held to be a free ----.

The ---- declined to take the responsibility in the absence of the
owner.

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AGREE (page 25).

QUESTIONS.

1. How do _concur_ and _coincide_ differ in range of meaning? How with
reference to expression in action? 2. How does _accede_ compare with
_consent_? 3. Which is the most general word of this group?

EXAMPLES.

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she ----.

My poverty, but not my will, ----.

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AGRICULTURE (page 25).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _agriculture_ include? How does it differ from _farming_?
2. What is _gardening_? _floriculture_? _horticulture_?

EXAMPLES.

Loan oft loses both itself and friend;
And borrowing dulls the edge of ----.

A field becomes exhausted by constant ----.

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AIM (page 26).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is an _aim_? How does it differ from _mark_? from _goal_? 2. How
do _end_ and _object_ compare? 3. To what does _aspiration_ apply? How
does it differ in general from _design_, _endeavor_, or _purpose_? 4.
How does _purpose_ compare with _intention_? 5. What is _design_?

EXAMPLES.

In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
For miserable ---- that end with self.

O yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final ---- of ill.

How quickly nature falls into revolt,
When gold becomes her ----.

It is not ----, but ambition that is the mother of misery in man.

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AIR (page 27).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _air_ in the sense here considered? 2. How does _air_ differ
from _appearance_? 3. What is the difference between _expression_ and
_look_? 4. What is the sense of _bearing_? _carriage_? 5. How does
_mien_ differ from _air_? 6. What does _demeanor_ include?

EXAMPLES.

I never, with important ----,
In conversation overbear.

Vice is a monster of so frightful ----,
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen.

Grief fills the r