Reliable ( page 306 ).
Questions.
1. What is to be said of the controversy regarding the formation and use of the word reliable? 2. What do trusty and trustworthy denote? 3. How does reliable compare with these words? 4. What meaning may reliable convey that trusty and trustworthy would not?
Examples.
Good lack! quoth he, yet bring it me
My leathern belt likewise,
In which I bear my —— sword,
When I do exercise.
The first voyage to America, of which we have any perfectly —— account, was performed by the Norsemen.