EFFRONTERY ([page 144]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is audacity? hardihood? 2. What special element does effrontery add to the meaning of audacity and hardihood? 3. What is impudence? shamelessness? 4. How does effrontery compare with these words? 5. What is boldness? Is it used in a favorable or an unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
When they saw the —— of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they marvelled.
I ne'er heard yet
That any of these bolder vices wanted
Less —— to gainsay what they did,
Than to perform it first.
I am not a little surprised at the easy —— with which political gentlemen in and out of Congress take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.