AMPLES.

The treatise displays great critical ----.

The Indians had developed a practical ---- that enabled them to
follow a trail by scarcely perceptible signs almost as unerringly as
the hound by scent.

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ADD (page 18).

QUESTIONS.

1. How is _add_ related to _increase_? How does it differ from
_multiply_? 2. What does _augment_ signify? Of what is it ordinarily
used? 3. To what does _amplify_ apply? 4. In what ways may a discourse
or treatise be _amplified_?

EXAMPLES.

Care to our coffin ---- a nail no doubt;
And every grin, so merry, draws one out.

---- up at night, what thou hast done by day;
And in the morning what thou hast to do.

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ADDRESS, _v._ (page 19).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _accost_ always signify? _greet_? _hail_? 2. How does
_salute_ differ from _accost_ or _greet_? _address_? 3. What is it to
_apostrophize_?

EXAMPLES.

The pale snowdrop is springing
To ---- the glowing sun.

---- to the Chief who in triumph advances.

His faithful dog ---- the smiling guest.

---- ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and died in freedom's cause.

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ADDRESS, _n._ (page 20).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _address_ in the sense here considered? 2. What is _tact_? 3.
What qualities are included in _address_?

EXAMPLES.

And the tear that is wiped with a little ----
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.

The ---- of doing doth expresse
No other but the doer's willingnesse.

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking; I could wish ----
would invent some other custom of entertainment.

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ADEQUATE (page 21).

QUESTIONS.

1. What do _adequate_, _commensurate_, and _sufficient_ alike signify?
How does _commensurate_ specifically differ from the other two words?
Give examples. 2. To what do _adapted_, _fit_, _suitable_, and
_qualified_ refer? 3. Is _satisfactory_ a very high recommendation of
any work? Why? 4. Is _able_ or _capable_ the higher word? Illustrate.

EXAMPLES.

We know not of what we are ---- till the trial comes.

Indeed, left nothing ---- for your purpose untouched, slightly
handled, in discourse.

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ADHERENT (page 21).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is an _