State , v. ( page 341 ).
Questions.
1. From what is state derived? What does it mean? 2. What is the significance of assert? What element is prominent in this word? 3. What is the relative force of affirm and assert? asseverate? aver? assure? 4. What does affirm signify in legal use, and how does it differ from swear? 5. What is it to certify? 6. What does vindicate signify?
Examples.
The first condition of intelligent debate is that the question be clearly ——ed.
We —— that the sciences dispose themselves round two great axes of thought, parallel and not unrelated, yet distinct—the natural sciences held together by the one, the moral by the other.
It is impossible for the mind to —— anything of that of which it knows nothing.