strangers mourned.

What is religion? Not a ---- inhabitant, nor something ---- to our
nature, which comes and takes up its abode in the soul.

---- from the commonwealth of Israel and ---- from the covenants of
promise.

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ALIKE (page 30).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _alike_ compare with _similar_? with _identical_? 2. What is
the distinction often made between _equal_ and _equivalent_? 3. What is
the sense of _analogous_? (Compare synonyms for ANALOGY.) 4. In what
sense is _homogeneous_ used?

EXAMPLES.

Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful; never the
---- for two moments together.

Fashioned for himself, a bride;
An ----, taken from his side.

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ALLAY (page 31).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the distinction between _allay_ and _alleviate_? Which word
implies a partial removal of the cause of suffering, or an actual
_lightening_ of the burden? 2. With which of the above words are we to
class _appease_, _pacify_, _soothe_, and the like? 3. With what words is
_alleviate_ especially to be grouped? (See synonyms for ALLEVIATE.)

EXAMPLES.

Such songs have power to ----
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.

Many a word, at random spoken
May ---- or wound a heart that's broken!

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ALLEGE (page 31).

QUESTIONS.

1. Which is the primary and which the secondary word, _allege_ or
_adduce_? Why? 2. How much of certainty is implied in _allege_? 3. How
much does one admit when he speaks of an _alleged_ fact, document,
signature, or the like?

EXAMPLES.

In many ---- cases of haunted houses, the spirits have not ventured
to face an armed man who has passed the night there.

I can not ---- one thing and mean another. If I can't pray I will
not make believe!

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ALLEGORY (page 33).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _allegory_ compare with _simile_? _Simile_ with _metaphor_?
2. What are the distinctions between _allegory_, _fable_, and _parable_?
3. Under what general term are all these included? 4. To what is
_fiction_ now most commonly applied?

EXAMPLES.

In argument
---- are like songs in love:
They much describe; they nothing prove.

And He spake many thin