w does _ocean_, used adjectively,
differ from _oceanic_?

EXAMPLES.

That sea-beast,
Leviathan, which God of all his works
Created hugest that swim the ---- stream.

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NEAT (page 249).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _clean_ signify? 2. Does _orderly_ apply to persons or
things, and in what sense? 3. What does _tidy_ denote? 4. What is the
meaning of _neat_? 5. How does _nice_ compare with _neat_? 6. What is
the significance of _spruce_? _trim_? _dapper_?

EXAMPLES.

If he (Jefferson) condescended to turn ---- sentences for delicate
ears--still, he was essentially an earnest man.

Still to be ----, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast,
Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd.

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NECESSARY (page 250).

QUESTIONS.

1. When is a thing properly said to be _necessary_? 2. What is the
meaning of _essential_? How does it differ from _indispensable_? 3. With
reference to what is a thing said to be _requisite_? How does
_requisite_ compare with _essential_ and _indispensable_? 4. How do
_inevitable_ and _unavoidable_ compare? To what kind of things are both
these words applied? 5. How do _needed_ and _needful_ compare with
_necessary_?

EXAMPLES.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is
---- for you in a book.

The ideas of space and time are called in philosophy ---- ideas.

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NECESSITY (page 250).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _necessity_? 2. What do _need_ and _want_ imply? How does
_need_ compare with _want_? 3. How does _necessity_ compare with _need_?
4. What is an _essential_?

EXAMPLES.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an ---- of high character.

No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his ----.

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NEGLECT, _n._ (page 251).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _neglect_? _negligence_? How do the two words compare? 2.
What senses has _negligence_ that _neglect_ has not? 3. Which of the two
words may be used in a passive sense? 4. What is the legal phrase for a
punishable _omission_ of duty?

EXAMPLES.

Ah, why
Should we, in the world's riper years, ----
God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore
Only among th