EXAMPLES.
It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest ——.
I dare swear he is no —— but prays from his heart.
In the reign of Henry VII., an ——, named Perkin Warbeck, laid claim to the English crown.
HYPOTHESIS ([page 205]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a hypothesis? What is its use in scientific investigation and study? 2. What is a guess? a conjecture? a supposition? a surmise? 3. What implication does surmise ordinarily convey? What is a theory? a scheme? a speculation? How do they differ?
EXAMPLES.
——, fancies, built on nothing firm.