CARRY (page 96).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what sort of objects do we apply _bear_? _carry_? _move_? _take_?
2. What kinds of force or power do we indicate by _convey_, _lift_, _transmit_, and _transport_? 3. What is the distinction between _bring_ and _carry_? between _carry_ and _bear_? 4. What does _lift_ mean? 5.
Can you give some figurative uses of _carry_?
EXAMPLES.
The strong man can ---- 1,000 pounds with apparent ease.
Napoleon always endeavored to ---- the war into the enemy"s territory.
It was found necessary to ---- the coal overland for a distance of 500 miles.
My punishment is greater than I can ----.
CATASTROPHE (page 97).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _catastrophe_ or _cataclysm_? 2. Is a _catastrophe_ also necessarily a _calamity_ or a _disaster_? 3. Which word has the broader meaning, _disaster_ or _calamity_? 4. Does _misfortune_ suggest as serious a condition as any of the foregoing? 5. How does a _mishap_ compare with a _catastrophe_, a _calamity_, or a _disaster_? 6. Give some chief antonyms of the above.
EXAMPLES.
War and pestilence are properly ----, while the loss of a battle may be a ----, but not a ----.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one ----.
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day"s ---- in his morning face.
The failure of the crops of two successive years proved an irreparable ---- to the emigrants.
CAUSE (page 98).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the central distinction between _antecedent_ and _cause_? 2.
How are the words _cause_, _condition_, and _occasion_ ill.u.s.trated by the fall of an avalanche? 3. And the antonyms _consequence_? _effect_?
_outgrowth_? _result_? 4. What are _causality_ and _causation_? 5. How are _origin_ and _source_ related to _cause_?
EXAMPLES.
Where there is an effect there must be also a ----.
It is necessary to know something of the ---- of a man before we can safely trust him.
The ---- of the river was found to be a small lake among the hills.
What was given as the ---- of the quarrel was really but the ----.
CHAGRIN (page 100).
QUESTIONS.
1. What feelings are combined in _chagrin_? 2. How do you distinguish between _chagrin_, _disappointment_, _humiliation_, _mortification_, and _shame_? 3. Which involves a sense of having done wrong?
EXAMPLES.
The king"s ---- at the limitations imposed upon him was painfully manifest.
He is not wholly lost who yet can blush from ----.
Hope tells a flattering tale, Delusive, vain, and hollow.
Ah! let not hope prevail, Lest ---- follow.
CHANGE (page 100).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinction between _change_ and _exchange_? Are they ever used as equivalent, and how? 2. Can you distinguish between _modify_ and _qualify_?
EXAMPLES.
The tailor offered to ---- the armholes of the coat.
We requested the pianist to ---- his music by introducing a few popular tunes.