is turn!
Seven and yet one, like shadows in a dream."

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FORMIDABLE (page 176).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the meaning of _formidable_? 2. How does _formidable_ differ
from _dangerous_? _terrible_? _tremendous_? Give examples.

EXAMPLES.

All delays are ---- in war.

---- as an army with banners.

The great fleet moved slowly toward the forts, a ---- array.

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FORTIFICATION (page 176).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does a _fortress_ specifically differ from a _fortification_? 2.
What is the distinctive meaning of _citadel_? 3. What is a _fort_? 4.
What is a _fastness_ or _stronghold_?

EXAMPLES.

For a man's house is his ----.

A mighty ---- is our God,
A bulwark never failing;
Our helper He amid the flood
Of mortal ills prevailing.

Alva built a ---- in the heart of Antwerp to overawe the city.

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FORTITUDE (page 176).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _fortitude_? 2. How does it compare with _courage_? 3. How do
_resolution_ and _endurance_ compare?

EXAMPLES.

Unbounded ---- and compassion join'd,
Tempering each other in the victor's mind.

Tell thy story;
If thine, consider'd, prove the thousandth part
Of my ----, thou art a man, and I
Have suffer'd like a girl.

Thou didst smile,
Infused with a ---- from heaven,
When I had decked the sea with drops full salt.

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FORTUNATE (page 177).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _fortunate_ compare with _successful_? 2. How are _lucky_
and _fortunate_ discriminated? 3. In what special sense, and with what
reference are _favored_ and _prospered_ used?

EXAMPLES.

It is not a ---- word this same "impossible;" no good comes of those
that have it so often in their mouth.

Ah, ---- years! once more who would not be a boy?

I have a mind presages me such thrift
That I should questionless be ----.

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FRAUD (page 177).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _fraud_? How does it differ from _deceit_ or _deception_?
2. What is the design of an _imposture_? 3. What is _dishonesty_? a
_cheat_? a _swindle_? How do all these fall short of the meaning of
_fraud_? 4. Of what relations is _treachery_ used? _treason_?

EXAMPLES.

---- doth never pr