1. What is the meaning of empty? of vacant? 2. To what does vacant especially refer? 3. What is the difference between an empty house and a vacant house? 4. What is the difference in dignity between the two words? 5. What is the significance of void and devoid? 6. What does waste imply? 7. In what sense is vacuous used?
EXAMPLES.
—— heads console with —— sound.
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind
And the loud laugh that spoke the —— mind.
VENAL ([page 365]).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is venal derived, and with what meaning? mercenary? hireling? 2. How are mercenary and venal discriminated from hireling?
EXAMPLES.
The closing quarter of the nineteenth century may be termed the —— era of American politics. Never before has legislation been so universally, so unscrupulously, and unblushingly for sale.