6. _Give signification of A.T._ Arch-Treasurer.

7. _What is the signification of C.A.S.?_ Fellow of the Connecticut Academy.

8. _What is the signification of C.C.?_ County Court, or County Commissioner.

9. _What is the meaning of D.C.L.?_ Doctor of Civil Law.

10. _What is the signification of D.M.?_ Doctor of Music.

11. _What is the signification of A.U.C.?_ In the year of the city.

12. _What is the meaning of F.E.S.?_ Fellow of the Entomological Society.

13. _What is the signification of H.R.I.P.?_ Here rests in peace.

14. _What is the signification of L.C.J.?_ Lord Chief Justice.

15. _What is the signification of N.u.?_ Name unknown.

16. _What is the signification of P.a.?_ Participial adjective.

17. _What is the signification of P.v.?_ Post village.

18. _What is the signification of Qy.?_ Query.

19. _What is the signification of Ro.?_ Righthand page.

20. _What is the signification S.C.L.?_ Student of the Civil Law.

21. _What is the signification of S.R.I.?_ Holy Roman Empire.

22. _What is the signification of S.J.C.?_ Supreme Judicial Court.

23. _What is the signification of U.S.S.?_ United States Ship.

24. _What does U.K. signify?_ United Kingdom.

25. _What does V.R. signify?_ Queen Victoria.

26. _What does V.G. signify?_ For example.

27. _What does Xt. signify?_ Christ.

28. _What does Xmas. signify?_ Christmas.

29. _What is the signification of Y.B.?_ Year Book.

30. _What is the signification of Zool.?_ Zoology.

31. _What does Yt. signify?_ That.

32. _What is the signification of S.T.P.?_ Doctor of Divinity.

ACCENT AND PUNCTUATION.

1. _Why is a word divided into syllables?_ For the purpose of showing their proper p.r.o.nunciation and etymological composition.

2. _What is Accent?_ A greater stress of voice placed on one syllable of a word than the others.

3. _What kind of words have no accent?_ Monosyllables.

4. _Why?_ Accent implies comparison, and there can be no comparison with one syllable.

5. _How many kinds of accent?_ Common, Emphatic, and Discriminating.

6. _What is common accent?_ Ordinary accent of spelling.

7. _How many kinds of common accent?_ Two.

8. _What are they?_ Primary and secondary.

9. _What is primary accent?_ The princ.i.p.al accent.

10. _What is secondary accent?_ The partial accent.

11. _What kind of accent is essential to every word of more than one syllable?_ Primary.

12. _How close can primary and secondary accent come together?_ Not closer than two syllables.

13. _How many primary accents can one word have?_ Only one.

14. _How many secondary accents can a word have?_ Two.

15. _In case of two secondary accents, where are they placed?_ On the first and third.

16. _In case of two secondary, where is the primary accent?_ On the last but two.

17. _Do the primary and secondary ever change places?_ They do.

18. _In words of two syllables, where is the accent?_ Usually on the first.

19. _In trisyllables, what syllable is accented?_ Usually the first.

20. _Are there any exceptions?_ There are.

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