2.  The following words are often used loosely today, some because their original meaning is lost sight of, some because they are confused with other words.  Find for each word (a) what the meaning has been and (b) what the correct meaning is now.

Nice Awful Atrocious
Grand Horrible Pitiful
Beastly Transpire Claim
Weird Aggravate Uncanny
Demean Gorgeous Elegant
Fine Noisome Mutual (in “a mutual friend”)
Lovely Cute Stunning
Liable Immense.

3.  The following sentences from standard English literature illustrate the use of words still extant and even familiar, in senses now largely or wholly forgotten.  The quotations from the Bible and Shakespeare (all the Biblical quotations are from the King James Version) date back a little more than three hundred years, those from Milton a little less than three hundred years, and those from Gray and Coleridge, respectively, about a hundred and seventy-five and a hundred and twenty-five years.  Go carefully enough into the past meanings of the italicized words to make sure you grasp the author’s thought.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.(1 Corinthians 13:13)

I prevented the dawning of the morning. (Psalms 119:147)

Our eyes wait upon the Lord our God. (Psalms 123:2)

The times of this ignorance God winked at. (Acts 17:30)

And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me; for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me. (Luke 8:46)

To judge the quick and the dead. (1 Peter 4:5)

Be not wise in your own conceits. (Romans 12:16)

In maiden meditation, fancy-free. (Shakespeare:  A Midsummer
Night’s Dream)

Is it so nominated in the bond? (Shakespeare:  The Merchant of Venice)

Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven. (Shakespeare: 
Hamlet)

The extravagant and erring spirit. (Said of a spirit
wandering from the bounds of purgatory.  Shakespeare:  Hamlet)

The modesty of nature. (Shakespeare:  Hamlet)

It is a nipping and an eager air. (Shakespeare:  Hamlet)

Security Is mortals’ chiefest enemy. (Shakespeare:  Macbeth)

Most admired disorder. (Shakespeare:  Macbeth)

Upon this hint I spake. (From the account of the wooing of
Desdemona.  Shakespeare:  Othello)

This Lodovico is a proper man.  A very handsome man. 
(Shakespeare:  Othello)

Mice and rats and such small deer. (Shakespeare:  King Lear)