ion.

91. _What is diction?_
Diction treats of the selection and right use of words.

92. _When is our diction pure?_
When we use only such words as belong to the idiom of our language.

93. _What are Synonyms?_
Words having a similar signification.

94. _What is a Synonymicon?_
A dictionary of synonymous words.

95. _What is meant by a reputable word?_
One that is used by educated people.

96. _What is an Anacoluthic word?_
One that is unnecessary to the completion of a sentence.

97. _What is an Idiomatic word?_
A word belonging to an individual language.

98. _What is an Ideographical language?_
One in which the characters represent ideas rather than sounds.

99. _Can there be a derivative word without an affix?_
There can; as, brought from bring.

100. _What is Dactylology?_
The art of spelling words with the fingers.

101. _What is the Pythagorean letter?_
Y.--_Am. Cyclopedia_.

102. _Why so called?_
Because its Greek original represents the sacred triad used to
designate the diverging paths of virtue and vice.

NUMERICAL VALUES OF THE LETTERS.

1. _What is meant by the Numerical value of letters?_
Its value as a numeral used in the notation of different languages.

2. _Have all the letters Numerical value?_
All except J, U, W, and Y.

3. _What is the Numerical value of A?_
500.

4. _By whom used?_
The ancient European Nations.

5. _What is the Numerical value of B?_
300.

6. _By whom used?_
The Romans.

7. _What is the Numerical value of C?_
100 in the Roman notation.

8. _What is the Numerical value of D?_
500 in the Roman notation.

9. _What is the Numerical value of E?_
5.

10. _By whom used?_
The ancient Greeks.

11. _What is the Numerical value of F?_
40 in some of the Ancient notations; 80 in the Arabian; and 10,000
in the Armenian.

12. _What is the Numerical value of G?_
400.

13. _By whom used?_
The Latins.

14. _What is the Numerical value of H?_
100 in the Greek notation; and 200 in the Latin.

15. _What is the Numerical value of I?_
1 in the Roman notation; and 100 in some of the Ancient notations.

16. _What is the Numerical value of K?_
20 in the Greek notation; and 60 in the Semitic.

17. _Give the Numerical values of L._
50 in Roman, and 30 in Semitic notation.

18. _What are the Numerical values of