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As the greatest compliment that could be paid a writer would be the assumption that the material contained in this little volume was the product of that writer's ingenuity or imagination, it seems needless for the compiler to state that every line is just what it purports to be, - bona fide answers to questions asked in the public schools. Mark Twain, with his inimitable drollery, comments in the "Century Magazine" for April, 1887, upon "English As She is Taught." Even this master of English humor acknowledges his inability to comprehend how such

• Humour

								


 Implacable—     not able to be placed.

 Ingratiating—   grating up the ear.

 Interloper—     one who runs away to get married.

 Irrigate—       to disturb.

                 to turbulate.

                 to make fun of.

                 to emit sparks.

                 to contest in law.

                 to ask in return.

                 to dispense with justice.

 Knickerbocker—  something to ring with.

 Matins—         something to wear on the feet.

 Medieval—       a wicked man who has been tempted.

 Mediocrity—     the science of the Medes.

 Mendacious—     what can be mended.

 Mercenary—      relating to money matters.

                 one who feels for another.

                 hostile to life.

                 one living on charity.

                 one who suffers.

                 pertaining to the eye.

                 relating to habits.

                 strong, bold, brave.

                 one who delivers a message.

                 one who sets on fire with hostile intent.

 Miscellaneous—  all mixed up.

 Munificence—    waste.

                 thanksgiving.

                 brightness.

                 great wealth.

                 a tragedy.

                 a beautiful city.

 Non-conformist— a decenter of ancient times.

 Ominous—        power to be all present.

                 power to eat all things.

 Parasite—       a sort of bird.

                 one who speaks well.

                 an example.

                 a kind of umbrella.

                 the murder of an infant.

 Party-colored—  a fine kind of a dress to wear to a ball.

 Pennyroyal—     relating to money.

 Perennial—      every seven years.

 Plagarist—      a writer of plays.

 Plagarism—      fire worship.

 Prism—          a prim precise person.

 Publican—       a man who does his prayers in public.

 Quarternions—   a bird with a flat beak and no bill living in New
                   Zealand.

                 the name given to a style of art practiced by the
                   Phœnicians.

                 a religious convention held every hundred years.

 Republican—     a sinner mentioned in the Bible.

 Reticence—      tardyness.

                 retirement.

                 a review.

                 something of the eye.

                 great slowness.

 Satiate—        to make tasty.

 Sibilant—       the state of being idiotic.

 Starveling—     a small child who doesunt have enough to eat.

 Subtlety—       gentley.

                 profanity.

                 brittleness.

                 softness.

                 vagueness.

                 easily coaxed.

                 light and airy.

                 is sprightness.

                 a settlement.

                 great doubtfullness.

                 stepping through easily.

                 state of being easy broken.

 Technology—     according to the text.

                 a plagarism nearly obsolete.

                 something which teaches you to be very tecknical in
                   your remarks.

 Tenacious—      ten acres of land.

 Vacillating—    ticking like a pendulum.

 Vermicular—     the intestines of a worm.

  She is related to him by animosity.

  A great many people alienate from their country to this.

  The ring is quite an auriferous article.

  He is a very auspicious boy.

  She dresses very auspicious.

  The belligerent powers receive a salary.

  We call him a charger because he charges so much.

  Chronology is the science of the brane.

  He had a chronic disease—something the matter with the chrone.

  The coercion of some things is remarkable, as bread and molasses.

  We should never commiserate a person even if we dislike them.

  Her hat is contiguous because she wears it on one side.

  The girl was delineate in her work.

  John said he would delineate the book.

  The washwoman dilated the clothes.

  He was totally dismasted with the whole performance.

  The officer is to be tried for dissertation of his office.

  The place was left in a state of dissertation.

  He dominated or ruled the paper.

  He is a great duplicate because so very deceitful.

  The men marched out in an egregious procession.

  He preached to an egregious congregation.

  He gave a correct elimination of the word.

  The captain eliminated a bullet through the man’s heart.

  He stood on a high emissary.

  There was a small emolument of water in the vessel.

  He was exhilarated to a better place.

  We should endeavor to avoid extremes—like those of wasps and bees.

  You should fascinate the vine to the wall.

  I have a gauzy hen at home.

  He treated her with ignition because he did not notice her.

  The marriage was illegible.

  They tried to imbecile the animal.

  The leopard is watching his sheep.

  I liquidate you from all blame.

  John liquidated his bread with milk.

  The strawberry crop was magnanimous.

  The magnanimous of Milton was wonderful.

  He has a very mental intellect.

  He was a member of the mediocrity.

  The child gave a mercenary account of the accident.

  She has just returned from the mercenary.

  This examination makes me feel very nauceous.

  The stomach contains nausea.

  Her fright was palliateable because it made her pale.

  The doctrine that like can be cured by like is called panacea.

  You will see how pecuniary he is when I tell you he is going to
      marry for money.

  The family is placed under pecuniary circumstances.

  He was pecuniary or tight in his money matters.

  My perennial tuition is due to-day.

  The earth perennially revolves round the sun.

  He enjoys riding on a philosopher.

  You should take caution and be precarious.

  The propensity of this room is very small.

  She was very quick at repertoire.

  A great many persons are quite resonant.

  The naughty boy resources his mother.

  People become full of retisense when they are silent.

  Minerals crystallize in rhododendrons.

  You need not try to satiate my pathway.

  She seceded the velvet to her dress.

  The serfdom at Cony Island is very high.

  The men employed by the Gas Company go round and speculate the
      meter.

  The supercilious girl acted with vicissitude when the perennial
      time came.

  He prayed for the waters to subsidize.

  The birds subsidize in the summer for the most part on fruits.

  He is a very tacit scholar because he is easily taught.

  He temporized the zinc nicely.

  We ought to temporize our health.

  The tenacious girl was good in church.

  Herod was called a tetrarch because he was so fond of tea.

  There are a good many donkeys in theological gardens.

  Some of the best fossils are found in theological cabinets.

  The telescope is very transparent because you can see through it.

  He landed safe on vice versa.

  The earth makes a vicissitude around the sun once a year.

  They had a strawberry vestibule.

  Zoology is interesting to those who like the study of words.
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