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ASSURANCE (page 61).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _assurance_ in the good sense? 2. What is _assurance_ in the
bad sense? 3. How does _assurance_ compare with _impudence_? with
_effrontery_?

EXAMPLES.

Let us draw near with a true heart in full ---- of faith.

Some wicked wits have libel'd all the fair.
With matchless ---- they style a wife
The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life.

With brazen ---- he denied the most indisputable facts.

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ASTUTE (page 62).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what language is _acute_ derived? What is its distinctive sense?
2. From what language is _keen_ derived? What does it distinctively
denote? 3. From what language is _astute_ derived, and what was its
original meaning? 4. In present use what does _astute_ add to the
meaning of _acute_ or _keen_? 5. What does _astute_ imply regarding the
ulterior purpose or object of the person who is credited with it?

EXAMPLES.

You statesmen are so ---- in forming schemes!

He taketh the wise in their own ----ness.

The most ---- reasoner may be deluded, when he practises sophistry
upon himself.

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ATTACHMENT (page 63).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _attachment_? How does it differ from _adherence_ or
_adhesion_? from _affection_? from _inclination_? from _regard_?

EXAMPLES.

Talk not of wasted ----, ---- never was wasted.

You do not weaken your ---- for your family by cultivating ----s
beyond its pale, but deepen and intensify it.

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ATTACK, _v. & n._ (pages 63, 64).

QUESTIONS.

1. What special element is involved in the meaning of _attack_? 2. How
do _assail_ and _assault_ differ? 3. What is it to _encounter_? how does
this word compare with _attack_? How does _attack_ differ from
_aggression_?

EXAMPLES.

We see time's furrows on another's brow,
And death intrench'd, preparing his ----;
How few themselves in that just mirror see!

Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open ----?

Roger Williams ---- the spirit of intolerance, the doctrine of
persecution, and never his persecutors.

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ATTAIN (page 64).

QUESTIONS.

1. What kind of a word is _attain_, and to what does it point? 2. How
does _attain_ differ