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nify? 2. What is _hypocrisy_? 3. What is _cant_? _sanctimoniousness_? 4. What is _pietism_? _formalism_? _sham_? 5. How does _affectation_ compare with _hypocrisy_? EXAMPLES. Let not the Trojans, with a feigned ---- of proffered peace, delude the Latian prince. ---- is a fawning and flexible art, which accommodates itself to human feelings, and flatters the weakness of men in order that it may gain its own ends. * * * * * HYPOCRITE (page 204). QUESTIONS. 1. From what language is _hypocrite_ derived? What is its primary meaning? 2. What common term includes the other words of the group? 3. How are _hypocrite_ and _dissembler_ contrasted with each other? 4. What element is common to the _cheat_ and the _impostor_? How do the two compare with each other? EXAMPLES. It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest ----. I dare swear he is no ---- but prays from his heart. In the reign of Henry VII., an ----, named Perkin Warbeck, laid claim to the English crown. * * * * * HYPOTHESIS (page 205). QUESTIONS. 1. What is a _hypothesis_? What is its use in scientific investigation and study? 2. What is a _guess_? a _conjecture_? a _supposition_? a _surmise_? 3. What implication does _surmise_ ordinarily convey? What is a _theory_? a _scheme_? a _speculation_? How do they differ? EXAMPLES. ----, fancies, built on nothing firm. There are no other limits to ---- than those of the human mind. The development ----, tho widely accepted by men of science fails of proof at many important points. * * * * * IDEA (page 206). QUESTIONS. 1. From what language is _idea_ derived, and what did it originally mean? 2. What did _idea_ signify in early philosophical use? 3. What is its present popular use, and with what words is it now synonymous? EXAMPLES. All rests with those who read. A work or ---- Is what each makes it to himself. He who comes up to his own ---- of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. * * * * * IDEAL (page 206). QUESTIONS. 1. What is an _ideal_? 2. What is an _archetype_? a _prototype_? 3. Can a _prototype_ be equivalent to an _archetype_? 4. Is an _ideal_ primal, or the result of development? 5. What is an _
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