t that the context largely determines the meaning of
a word should be made clear in this study, and the particular meaning the
author employs in the poem should be required. The pupil's discrimination
will at first be poor, but he soon develops considerable skill and judgment.

I

1. primeval
2. Druids
3. eld
4. prophetic
5. hoar
6. caverns
7. disconsolate
8. roe
9. glided
10. reflecting
11. adopt
12. tradition
13. affliction
14. endures
15. patient

II

1. incessant
2. floodgates
3. reposed
4. peasants
5. thatched
6. tranquil
7. vanes
8. distaffs
9. gossiping
10. reverend
11. hailing
12. serenely
13. belfry
14. incense
15. contentment

III

1. stalworth
2. stately
3. gleamed
4. tresses
5. sooth
6. turret
7. hyssop
8. chaplet
9. missal
10. generations
11. ethereal
12. confession
13. benediction
14. exquisite
15. envy

IV

1. antique
2. penitent
3. odorous
4. meek
5. innocent
6. variant
7. devotion
8. craft
9. repute
10. pedagogue
11. autumnal
12. expired
13. populous
14. wondrous
15. valiant

V

1. desolate
2. tropical
3. inclement
4. mantles
5. hoarded
6. advent
7. pious
8. magical
9. landscape
10. consoled
11. blended
12. subdued
13. arrayed
14. adorned
15. surmises

VI

1. instinct
2. superbly
3. ponderous
4. gestures
5. fantastic
6. fragments
7. carols
8. treadles
9. diligent
10. monotonous
11. jovial
12. content
13. accustomed
14. forebodings
15. mandate

VII

1. untimely
2. blighted
3. bursting
4. lurk
5. outskirts
6. anxious
7. dubious
8. scythe
9. besieged
10. contract (_n._)
11. glebe
12. inkhorn
13. rejoice
14. worthy
15. notary

VIII

1. floss
2. wisdom
3. supernal
4. languished
5. warier
6. ripe
7. unchristened
8. doomed
9. haunt
10. marvellous
11. lore
12. demeanor
13. molest
14. irascible
15. triumphs

IX

1. brazen
2. emblem
3. presided
4. corrupted
5. oppressed
6. condemned
7. convinced
8. congealed
9. tankard
10. dower
11. contention
12. manoeuvre
13. pallid
14. infinite
15. breach

X

1. anon
2. curfew
3. straightway
4. lingered
5. reigned
6. resounded
7. luminous
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