ABOLISH ([page 6]).
QUESTIONS.
1. Is abolish used of persons or material objects? 2. Of what is it used? Give examples. 3. What does annihilate signify? Is it stronger or weaker than abolish? 4. What terms do we use for doing away with laws, and how do those terms differ among themselves? 5. What are the differences between overthrow, suppress, and subvert? especially between the last two of those words? 6. How does prohibit differ from abolish? 7. What word do we especially use of putting an end to a nuisance? 8. What other words of this class are especially referred to? 9. Give some antonyms of abolish.
EXAMPLES.
The one great endeavor of Buddhism is to —— sorrow.
Modern science seems to show conclusively that matter is never ——.
The law, which had long been —— by the revolutionists, was at last —— by the legislature.
The ancient statute was found to have been —— by later enactments, though never formally ——.
The Supreme Court —— the adverse decision of the inferior tribunal.