RARE ( page 300 ).
Questions.
1. What is the meaning of unique? Can any one of a number of things of the same kind be unique? 2. What is the primary meaning of rare? What added sense is often blended with this primary meaning? 3. Is extraordinary favorable or unfavorable in meaning?
Examples.
Nothing is so —— as time.
That which gives to the Jews their —— position among the nations is what we are accustomed to regard as their sacred history.
And what is so —— as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days.