2.  Define the following adjectives, adverbs, and verbs: 

Miserable Rebuke Wise
Angrily Rapidly Boundless
Swim Paint Whiten
Haughtily Surly Causelessly

3.  So define the following nouns as to prevent any possible confusion with the nouns following them in parentheses: 

Wages (salary) Ride (drive)
Planet (star) Truck (automobile)
Watch (clock) Reins (lines)
Jail (penitentiary) Iron (steel)
Vegetable (fruit) Timber (lumber)
Flower (weed) Rope (string)
Hail (sleet, snow) Stock (bond)
Newspaper (magazine) Street car (railway coach)
Cloud (fog) Revolver (rifle, pistol, etc.)
Mountain (hill) Creek (river)
Letter (postal card)

4.  While remembering that the following words are of broad signification and mean different things to different people, define them according to their meaning to you: 

Gentleman Courage
Honesty Beauty
Honor Good manners
Generosity A good while
Charity A little distance
Modesty Long ago

How to Look Up a Word in the Dictionary

So much for the words which are already yours, or which you can make yours through your own unaided efforts.  For convenience we have grouped with them some words of a nature more baffling—­words of which you know perhaps but a single aspect rather than the totality, or upon which you can obtain but a feeble and precarious grip.  These slightly known words belong more to the class now to be considered than to that just disposed of.  For we have now to deal with words over which you can establish no genuine rulership unless you have outside help.

You must own a dictionary, have it by you, consult it carefully and often.  Do not select one for purchasing upon the basis of either mere bigness or cheapness.  If you do, you may make yourself the owner of an out-of-date reprint from stereotyped plates.  What to choose depends partly upon personal preference, partly upon whether your need is for comprehensiveness or compression.

If you are a scholar, Murray’s many-volumed New English Dictionary may be the publication for you; but if you are an ordinary person, you will probably content yourself with something less expensive and exhaustive.  You will find the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, in twelve volumes, or Webster’s New International Dictionary an admirable compilation.  The New Standard Dictionary will also prove useful.  All in all, if you can afford it, you should provide yourself with one or the other of these three large and authoritative, but not too inclusive, works.  Of the smaller lexicons Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Webster’s Secondary School Dictionary, the Practical Standard Dictionary, and the Desk Standard Dictionary answer most purposes well.