past or the
future? 3. To what is _advertise_ chiefly applied? _propound_?
_promulgate_? _publish_?

EXAMPLES.

The Sphinx ---- its riddles with life and death depending on the
answer.

Through the rare felicity of the times you are permitted to think
what you please and to ---- what you please.

The songs of birds and the wild flowers in the woodlands ---- the
coming of spring.

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ANSWER (page 46).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a verbal _answer_? 2. In what wider sense is _answer_ used?
3. What is a _reply_? a _rejoinder_? 4. How does an _answer_ to a
charge, an argument, or the like, differ from a _reply_ or _rejoinder_?
5. What is the special quality of a _response_? 6. What is a _retort_?
How does it differ from _repartee_?

EXAMPLES.

I can no other ---- make, but thanks.

Theirs not to make ----
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.

Upon thy princely warrant I descend,
To give thee ---- of thy just demand.

He could not be content without finding a ---- in Nature to every
mood of his mind; and he does find it.

A man renowned for ----
Will seldom scruple to make free
With friendship's honest feeling.

Nothing is so easy and inviting as the ---- of abuse and sarcasm;
but it is a paltry and unprofitable contest.

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ANTICIPATE, ANTICIPATION (page 47).

QUESTIONS.

1. What are the two contrasted senses of _anticipate_? 2. Which is now
the more common? 3. How does _anticipate_ differ from _expect_? from
_hope_? from _apprehend_? 4. How does _anticipation_ differ from
_presentiment_? from _apprehension_? from _foreboding_? 5. What special
element is involved in _foretaste_? How do _foresight_ and _forethought_
go beyond the meaning of _anticipation_?

EXAMPLES.

Then some leaped overboard with fearful yell,
As eager to ---- their grave.

England ---- every man to do his duty.

These are portents; but yet I ----, I hope,
They do not point on me.

If I know your sect, I ---- your argument.

The happy ---- of a renewed existence in company with the spirits of
the just.

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ANTIPATHY (page 48).

QUESTIONS.

1. How is _antipathy_ to be distinguished from _dislike_? from
_antagonism_? from _aversion_? 2. What is _uncongeniality_? How do