DECAY ([page 122]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What sort of things decay? putrefy? rot? 2. What is the essential difference between decay and decompose?
EXAMPLES.
The flowers wither, the tree's trunk ——.
The water was —— by the electric current.
DECEPTION ([page 123]).
QUESTIONS.
1. How is deceit distinguished from deception? from guile? fraud? lying? hypocrisy? 2. Do all of these apply to conduct as well as to speech? 3. Is deception ever innocent? 4. Have craft and cunning always a moral element? 5. How is dissimulation distinguished from duplicity?[417]