85. _What is meant by suspended animation of a word?_ A word that pa.s.ses out of use for a while and then resumes its place in literature.
86. _Give examples of suspended words._ The words reckless, abate, and abandon, fell into disuse in the seventeenth century, but have since been revived.
87. _What letters are called the pivots?_ Y and w.
88. _Why are they so called?_ Because of their peculiar sounds in changing from vowels to consonants.
89. _What kind of new words should be avoided?_ Any word formed contrary to the genius of the language.
90. _What is meant by idiom?_ A peculiar mode of expression.
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 M?_ As a Roman numeral, 1,000; Greek and Hebrew, 40.
19. _What is the value of N as a Numeral?_ In the Greek notation, 50; Roman, 90; and by some other, 900.
20. _What is the Numerical value of O?_ 70 in the Greek; and 11 in the Ancient Latins.
21. _What is the Numerical value of P?_ In the Greek notation, 5; in the Latin, 80; and in the Roman, by some authors, 7, by one, 100, and by still another, 400.
22. _As a Numeral, what is the value of Q?_ 500.
23. _By whom used?_ Several of the Ancient Nations of Europe.
24. _What is the Numerical value of R?_ 80
25. _By whom used?_ The ancient Romans.
26. _What is the Numerical value of S?_ 7
27. _By whom used?_ The Ancients.
28. _Give the values of T as a Numeral._ 300 in the Greek notation; in the Latin, 160.
29. _What is the Numerical value of V?_ 5 in the Roman notation.