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QUESTIONS.
1. What is _fanaticism_? _bigotry_? 2. What do _fanaticism_ and _bigotry_ commonly include? 3. What is _intolerance_? 4. What is the distinctive meaning of _superst.i.tion_? 5. What is _credulity_? Is it distinctively religious?
EXAMPLES.
---- is a senseless fear of G.o.d.
The fierce ---- of the Moslems was the mainspring of their early conquests.
The ---- that will believe nothing contrary to a creed is often joined with a blind ---- that will believe anything in favor of it.
FANCIFUL (page 167).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _fanciful_? 2. What does _fantastic_ add to the meaning of _fanciful_? 3. How does _grotesque_ especially differ from the _fanciful_ or _fantastic_? 4. How does _visionary_ differ from _fanciful_?
EXAMPLES.
Come see the north wind's masonry, ... his wild work; So ----, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.
What ---- tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!
Plays such ---- tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep.
FANCY (page 167).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an intellectual _fancy_? 2. How does a _conceit_ differ from a _fancy_? a _conception_ from both? 3. What is an emotional or personal _fancy_? 4. What is _fancy_ as a faculty of the mind?
EXAMPLES.
Tell me where is ---- bred; Or in the heart or in the head?
Elizabeth united the occasional ---- of her s.e.x with that sense and sound policy in which neither man nor woman ever excelled her.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one ----, and that is a wrong one.
If she were to take a ---- to anybody in the house, she would soon settle, but not till then.
FAREWELL (page 168).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what language do _farewell_ and _good-by_ belong etymologically?
How do they differ? 2. From what language have _adieu_ and _conge_ been adopted into English? 3. What is the special significance of _conge_? 4.
What are _valediction_ and _valedictory_?
EXAMPLES.
---- my paper's out so nearly I've only room for yours sincerely.
The train from out the castle drew, But Marmion stopped to bid ----.
----! a word that must be, and hath been-- A sound which makes us linger;--yet------.
FEAR (page 168).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the generic term of this group? 2. What is _fear_? Is it sudden or lingering? In view of what cla.s.s of dangers? 3. What is the etymological meaning of _horror_? What does the word signify in accepted usage? 4. What are the characteristics of _affright_, _fright_, and _terror_? 5. How is _fear_ contrasted with _fright_ and _terror_ in actual or possible effects? 6. What is _panic_? What of the numbers affected by it? 7. What is _dismay_? How does it compare with _fright_ and _terror_?
EXAMPLES.
Even the bravest men may be swept along in a sudden ----.
With much more ---- I view the fight than thou that mak'st the fray.
Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No ---- lest he should swerve or faint.
The ghastly spectacle filled every beholder with ----.
A lingering ---- crept upon him as he waited in the darkness.
FEMININE (page 169).
QUESTIONS.
