to explicitness? 3.
How do _hint_ and _insinuate_ differ?

EXAMPLES.

Late in the eighteenth century Cowper did not venture to do more
than ---- to the great allegorist [Bunyan], saying:

"I name thee not, lest so despised a name
Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame."

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ALLURE (page 37).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _allure_? 2. How does _allure_ differ from _attract_?
from _lure_? 3. What does _coax_ express? 4. What is it to _cajole_? to
_decoy_? to _inveigle_? 5. How does _seduce_ differ from _tempt_? 6. Is
_win_ used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?

EXAMPLES.

The ruddy square of comfortable light
---- him, as the beacon blaze ----
The bird of passage.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And ---- by making rich, not making poor.

He had a strange gift of ---- friends, and of ---- the love of
women.

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ALSO (page 37).

QUESTIONS.

1. Into what two groups are the synonyms for _also_ naturally divided?
2. Which words simply add a fact or thought? 3. Which distinctly imply
that what is added is like that to which it is added?

EXAMPLES.

Thine to work ---- to pray,
Clearing thorny wrongs away;
Plucking up the weeds of sin,
Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.

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ALTERNATIVE (page 38).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the difference between _choice_ and _alternative_ in the
strict use of language? 2. Is _alternative_ always so severely
restricted by leading writers? 3. What do _choice_, _pick_, _election_,
and _preference_ imply regarding one's wishes? _alternative_?
_resources_?

EXAMPLES.

Homer delights to call Ulysses "the man of many ----."

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AMASS (page 38).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _amass_? 2. How is _amass_ distinguished from
_accumulate_? 3. Is interest _amassed_ or _accumulated_? 4. How does
_hoard_ differ from _store_?

EXAMPLES.

By daring and successful speculation, he ---- a prodigious fortune.

The sum was the ---- savings of an industrious and frugal life.

O, to what purpose dost thou ---- thy words,
That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?

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AMATEUR (page 39).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the difference between _amateur_ and _connoisseur_? b