QUESTIONS.
1. What are the characteristics of a civil person? What more is found in one who is polite? 2. How does courteous compare with civil? 3. What does courtly signify? genteel? urbane? 4. In what sense is polished used? complaisant?
EXAMPLES.
She is not —— for the sake of seeming ——, but —— for the sake of being kind.
He was so generally —— that nobody thanked him for it.
Her air, her manners, all who saw admired; —— tho coy, and gentle tho retired.
POVERTY ([page 279]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does poverty strictly denote? What does it signify in ordinary use? 2. What does privation signify? How does it compare with distress? 3. What is indigence? destitution? penury? 4. What does pauperism properly signify? How does it differ from beggary and mendicancy?