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The contrary supposition is obviously ----.

When the Siberian Pacific Railway is finished, what is there to ---- Russia from annexing nearly the whole of China?

There appears to be no way to ---- the difficulty.

PREVIOUS (page 285).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _antecedent_ denote? 2. How does _preceding_ differ from _antecedent_ and _previous_? 3. How is _anterior_ commonly used?

_prior_? 4. Of what is _former_ used? What does _former_ always imply?

EXAMPLES.

These matters have been fully explained in ---- chapters of this work.

The reader will be helped to an understanding of this process by a careful study of the diagram on the ---- page.

In ---- times many things were attributed to witchcraft that now have a scientific explanation.

PRICE (page 285).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the _cost_ of an article? the _price_? 2. How do _cost_ and _price_ ordinarily differ? 3. In what exceptional case may _cost_ and _price_ agree? 4. What does _price_ always imply? 5. What is the meaning of _value_? How does market _value_ differ from intrinsic _value_? 6.

How does _value_ differ from _worth_? 7. To what are _charge_ and _expense_ ordinarily applied?

EXAMPLES.

---- is the life-giving power of anything; ----, the quant.i.ty of labor required to produce it; ----, the quant.i.ty of labor which its possessor will take in exchange for it.

No man can permanently do business by making the ---- of his goods the same as their ---- to him, however such a method may help him momentarily in an emergency.

PRIDE (page 286).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _pride_? _haughtiness_? _arrogance_? _disdain_? How do these qualities compare with _pride_? 2. What does _superciliousness_ imply according to its etymology? 3. How do _pride_ and _vanity_ differ? 4.

What difference is noted between _self-conceit_ and _conceit_? 5. How do _self-respect_ and _self-esteem_ compare with each other and with the other words of the group?

EXAMPLES.

---- may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

There is nothing ---- can so little bear with as ---- itself.

---- is as ill at ease under indifference, as tenderness is under the love which it can not return.

PRIMEVAL (page 287).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the derivation and signification of _aboriginal_?

_autochthonic_? _primeval_? 2. What do _prime_ and _primary_ denote?

What special sense has _primary_ as in reference to a school? 3. How is _primordial_ used? 4. What does _primitive_ suggest, as in the expressions, the _primitive_ church, _primitive_ simplicity? 5. What is _pristine_? 6. How do _native_ and _indigenous_ compare?

EXAMPLES.

Thou from ---- nothingness didst call First chaos, then existence, Lord.

The ---- inhabitants of America are long since extinct, for even the races whom the white men conquered had themselves supplanted an earlier race.

All the later ages have wondered at and admired the whole-souled consecration of the ---- church.

PROFIT (page 288).

QUESTIONS.

1. What are _returns_ or _receipts_? 2. What is _profit_ in the commercial sense? What in the intellectual and moral sense? 3. What is _utility_? 4. What does _advantage_ originally signify? Does it now necessarily imply having or gaining superiority to another person, or securing anything at another's expense? 5. What is _gain_? _benefit_?

_emolument_? 6. To what does _expediency_ especially refer?

EXAMPLES.

Silence has many ----s.

No man can read with ---- that which he can not learn to read with pleasure.

G.o.dliness with contentment is great ----.

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