r gold;
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear.

It is better to be content with such things as ye have than to
become ---- and ---- in accumulating.

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AVENGE (page 69).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _avenge_? 2. How does _avenge_ differ from _revenge_?
3. Which word would be used of an act of God? 4. Is _retaliate_ used in
the sense of _avenge_ or of _revenge_?

EXAMPLES.

O, that the vain remorse, which must chastise
Crimes done, had but as loud a voice to warn
As its keen sting is mortal to ----.

I lost mine eye laying the prize aboard,
And therefore to ---- it, shalt thou die.

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AVOW (page 69).

QUESTIONS.

1. Which words of this group refer exclusively to one's own knowledge or
action? 2. What is the distinctive sense of _aver_? of _avouch_? of
_avow_? 3. How do _avouch_ and _avow_ differ from _aver_ in
construction? 4. Is _avow_ used in a good or a bad sense? What does it
imply of others' probable feeling or action? 5. How does _avow_ compare
with _confess_?

EXAMPLES.

And, but herself, ---- no parallel.

The child ---- his fault and was pardoned by his parent.

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AWFUL (page 70).

QUESTIONS.

1. To what matters should _awful_ properly be restricted? 2. Is _awful_
always interchangeable with _alarming_ or _terrible_? with
_disagreeable_ or _annoying_?

EXAMPLES.

Then must it be an ---- thing to die.

The silent falling of the snow is to me one of the most ---- things
in nature.

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AWKWARD (page 70).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the derivation and original meaning of _awkward_? of
_clumsy_? 2. To what, therefore, does _awkward_ primarily refer? and to
what _clumsy_? 3. Is a draft-horse distinctively _awkward_ or _clumsy_?
4. Give some metaphorical uses of _awkward_.

EXAMPLES.

Though he was ----, he was kindly.

The apprentice was not only ----, but ----, and had to be taught
over and over again the same methods.

The young girl stood in a ---- way, looking in at the showy
shop-windows.

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AXIOM (page 71).

QUESTIONS.

1. In what do _axiom_ and _truism_ agree? 2. In what do they differ? 3.
How do they compare in interest and utilit