bored in the conscious breast,
Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

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SKETCH (page 334).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _sketch_? How does it compare with _outline_? 2. In what
special connection are _draft_ and _plan_ used? 3. How does a mechanical
_drawing_ differ from a _draft_? 4. What is a _design_? How does it
exceed the meaning of _drawing_? 5. What is an _outline_ in written
composition? How does a _sketch_ in this sense compare with an
_outline_? 6. What is an _outline_ of a sermon technically called? 7.
What is a lawyer's _brief_? How does it compare with an _outline_ or
_sketch_?

EXAMPLES.

A ---- that is without vigor, and in which the anatomy has not been
defined, is a bad foundation for a good picture.

A little model the master wrought,
Which should be to the larger ----
What the child is to the man.

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SKILFUL (page 335).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _skilful_ signify? 2. How does _dexterous_ compare with
_skilful_? 3. How does a _skilled_ compare with a _skilful_ workman?

EXAMPLES.

So ---- seamen ken the land from far,
Which shows like mists to the dull passenger.

Thousands of ---- workmen are thrown into enforced idleness by the
strikes and lockouts of every year.

Much that has been received as the work of disembodied spirits has
been but the ---- sleight of hand of spirits embodied.

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SLANDER (page 336).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _slander_? to _defame_? to _libel_? 2. When is _defame_
equivalent to _slander_? When is it equivalent to _libel_? 3. What is it
to _asperse_? to _malign_? to _traduce_? to _disparage_? 4. How do
_slander_ and _libel_ differ in legal signification from the other
words? 5. Which words of the group apply to open attack in one's
presence, and which to attack in his absence?

EXAMPLES.

----ed to death by villains
That dare as well answer a man, indeed,
As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.

If the Scriptures seem to ---- knowledge, it is the knowledge that
despises virtue.

Challenging each recreant doubter
Who ----ed her spotless name.

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SLANG (page 336).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _colloquialism_? 2. What is _slang_ in the primary and
ordinary sense? in special senses? 3.