1. What did extemporaneous originally mean? 2. What has it now come to signify in common use? 3. What is the original meaning of impromptu? The present meaning? 4. How does the impromptu remark often differ from the extemporaneous? 5. How does unpremeditated compare with the words above mentioned?
EXAMPLES.
In —— prayer, what men most admire, God least regardeth.
As a speaker, he excelled in —— address, while his opponent was at a loss to answer him because not gifted in the same way.
No more on prancing palfrey borne,
He carolled light as lark at morn,
And poured to lord and lady gay
The —— lay.
EXTERMINATE ([page 163]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation, and what is the original meaning of exterminate? eradicate? extirpate? 2. To what are these words severally applied?