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es it differ from _antipathy_? Which is positive? and which negative? EXAMPLES. Christianity is the solvent of all race ----. From my soul I loathe All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn, object of my implacable ----. * * * * * ANTIQUE (page 48). QUESTIONS. 1. To what does _antique_ refer? _antiquated_? 2. Is the difference between them a matter of time? Give examples. 3. Can a modern building be _antiquated_? Can it be _antique_? 4. What is the significance of _quaint_? EXAMPLES. My copper lamps, at any rate, For being true ----, I bought. I do love these ---- ruins, We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history. * * * * * ANXIETY (page 49). QUESTIONS. 1. What is _anxiety_ in the primary sense? Is it mental or physical? 2. How does _anxiety_ differ from _anguish_? 3. What kind of possibility does _anxiety_ always suggest? 4. How does it differ from _apprehension_, _fear_, _dread_, etc., in this regard? 5. What is _worry_? _fretfulness_? 6. Does _perplexity_ involve anxiety? EXAMPLES. Yield not to ---- the future, weep not for the past. Superstition invested the slightest incidents of life with needless ----. ---- is harder than work, and far less profitable. * * * * * APATHY (page 50). QUESTIONS. 1. What is _apathy_? 2. How does it differ from the Saxon word _unfeelingness_? from _indifference_? from _insensibility_? from _unconcern_? 3. How does _stoicism_ differ from _apathy_? EXAMPLES. In lazy ---- let stoics boast Their virtue fixed: 'tis fixed as in a frost. At length the morn and cold ---- came. He sank into a ---- from which it was impossible to arouse him. * * * * * APOLOGY (page 51). QUESTIONS. 1. What change of meaning has _apology_ undergone? 2. What does an _apology_ now always imply? 3. How does an _apology_ differ from an _excuse_? 4. Which of these words may refer to the future? 5. How does _confession_ differ from _apology_? EXAMPLES. ---- only account for that which they do not alter. Beauty is its own ---- for being. There is no refuge from ---- but suicide; and suicide is ----. * * * * * APPAREN
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