1. What is a _hunt_? 2. For what is a _chase_ or _pursuit_ conducted? a _search_? 3. What does _hunt_ ordinarily include? 4. Is it correct to use _hunt_ when _search_ only is contemplated? 5. How are these words used in the figurative senses?

EXAMPLES.

Among the inalienable rights of man are life, liberty, and the ---- of happiness.

All things have an end, and so did our ---- for lodgings.

The ---- formed the princ.i.p.al amus.e.m.e.nt of our Norman kings, who for that purpose retained in their possession forests in every part of the kingdom.

The ---- is up, but they shall know The stag at bay"s a dangerous foe.

HYPOCRISY (page 204).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what language is _pretense_ derived, and what does it signify?

2. What is _hypocrisy_? 3. What is _cant_? _sanctimoniousness_? 4. What is _pietism_? _formalism_? _sham_? 5. How does _affectation_ compare with _hypocrisy_?

EXAMPLES.

Let not the Trojans, with a feigned ---- of proffered peace, delude the Latian prince.

---- is a fawning and flexible art, which accommodates itself to human feelings, and flatters the weakness of men in order that it may gain its own ends.

HYPOCRITE (page 204).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what language is _hypocrite_ derived? What is its primary meaning? 2. What common term includes the other words of the group? 3.

How are _hypocrite_ and _dissembler_ contrasted with each other? 4. What element is common to the _cheat_ and the _impostor_? How do the two compare with each other?

EXAMPLES.

It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest ----.

I dare swear he is no ---- but prays from his heart.

In the reign of Henry VII., an ----, named Perkin Warbeck, laid claim to the English crown.

HYPOTHESIS (page 205).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _hypothesis_? What is its use in scientific investigation and study? 2. What is a _guess_? a _conjecture_? a _supposition_? a _surmise_? 3. What implication does _surmise_ ordinarily convey? What is a _theory_? a _scheme_? a _speculation_? How do they differ?

EXAMPLES.

----, fancies, built on nothing firm.

There are no other limits to ---- than those of the human mind.

The development ----, tho widely accepted by men of science fails of proof at many important points.

IDEA (page 206).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what language is _idea_ derived, and what did it originally mean? 2. What did _idea_ signify in early philosophical use? 3. What is its present popular use, and with what words is it now synonymous?

EXAMPLES.

All rests with those who read. A work or ---- Is what each makes it to himself.

He who comes up to his own ---- of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

IDEAL (page 206).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is an _ideal_? 2. What is an _archetype_? a _prototype_? 3. Can a _prototype_ be equivalent to an _archetype_? 4. Is an _ideal_ primal, or the result of development? 5. What is an _original_? 6. What is the _standard_? How does it compare with the _ideal_? 7. How are _idea_ and _ideal_ contrasted?

EXAMPLES.

Be a ---- to others and then all will go well.

The mind"s the ---- of the man.