1. What special element is involved in the meaning of attack? 2. How do assail and assault differ? 3. What is it to encounter? how does this word compare with attack? How does attack differ from aggression?
EXAMPLES.
We see time's furrows on another's brow,
And death intrench'd, preparing his ——;
How few themselves in that just mirror see!
Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open ——?
Roger Williams —— the spirit of intolerance, the doctrine of persecution, and never his persecutors.
ATTAIN ([page 64]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What kind of a word is attain, and to what does it point? 2. How does attain differ from obtain? from achieve? 3. How does obtain differ from procure?[402]