ALLEGE (page 31).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which is the primary and which the secondary word, _allege_ or _adduce_? Why? 2. How much of certainty is implied in _allege_? 3. How much does one admit when he speaks of an _alleged_ fact, doc.u.ment, signature, or the like?
EXAMPLES.
In many ---- cases of haunted houses, the spirits have not ventured to face an armed man who has pa.s.sed the night there.
I can not ---- one thing and mean another. If I can"t pray I will not make believe!
ALLEGORY (page 33).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _allegory_ compare with _simile_? _Simile_ with _metaphor_?
2. What are the distinctions between _allegory_, _fable_, and _parable_?
3. Under what general term are all these included? 4. To what is _fiction_ now most commonly applied?
EXAMPLES.
In argument ---- are like songs in love: They much describe; they nothing prove.
And He spake many things unto them in ----, saying, Behold a sower went forth to sow.
ALLEVIATE (page 33).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _alleviate_ differ from _relieve_? from _remove_? 2. Is _alleviate_ used of persons? 3. What are the special significations of _abate_? _a.s.suage_? _mitigate_? _moderate_? 4. How does _alleviate_ compare with _allay_? (Compare synonyms for ALLAY.)
EXAMPLES.
To pity distress is but human; to ---- it is G.o.dlike.
But, O! what mighty magician can ---- A woman"s envy?
ALLIANCE (page 34).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _alliance_? how does it differ from _partnership_? from _coalition_? from _league_? 2. How does a _confederacy_ or _federation_ differ from a _union_?
EXAMPLES.
The two nations formed an offensive and defensive ---- against the common enemy.
Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled, In the Parliament of man, the ---- of the world.
Business ---- are the warrant for the existence of trade ----.
ALLOT (page 34).
QUESTIONS.
1. Does _allot_ refer to time, place, or person? 2. To what does _appoint_ refer? _a.s.sign_? 3. How does _destine_ differ from _appoint_?
4. How does _award_ differ from _allot_, _appoint_, and _a.s.sign_?
EXAMPLES.
Man hath his daily work of body or mind ----.
He ----eth the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down.
The king is but as the hind ...
Who may not wander from the ---- field Before his work be done.
ALLOW (page 35).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _allow_ and _permit_? between a _permit_ and _permission_? 2. What instances can you give of the use of these words, also of _tolerate_ and _submit_? 3. What does _yield_ imply?
EXAMPLES.
Frederick ---- the Austrians to cross the mountains that he might attack them on a field of his own choosing.