1. What is it to slander? to defame? to libel? 2. When is defame equivalent to slander? When is it equivalent to libel? 3. What is it to asperse? to malign? to traduce? to disparage? 4. How do slander and libel differ in legal signification from the other words? 5. Which words of the group apply to open attack in one's presence, and which to attack in his absence?
EXAMPLES.
——ed to death by villains
That dare as well answer a man, indeed,
As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.
If the Scriptures seem to —— knowledge, it is the knowledge that despises virtue.
Challenging each recreant doubter
Who ——ed her spotless name.
SLANG ([page 336]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a colloquialism? 2. What is slang in the primary and ordinary sense? in special senses? 3. What is a vulgarism? 4. What is cant in the sense here considered?