Pretense ( page 283 ).
Questions.
1. What is a pretense? How does it differ from a pretext? 2. What is a ruse?
Examples.
The claim of a stronger nation to protect a weaker has commonly been but a —— for conquest.
It is not poverty so much as —— that harasses a ruined man—the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse.
The independent English nobility conspired to make an insurrection, and to support the prince's ——s.