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Questions.
1. What does absolute in the strict sense denote? supreme? 2. To what are these words in such sense properly applied? 3. How are they used in a modified sense? 4. Is arbitrary ever used in a good sense? What is the chief use? Give examples. 5. How does autocratic differ from arbitrary? both these words from despotic? despotic from tyrannical? 6. Is irresponsible good or bad in its implication? arbitrary? imperative? imperious? peremptory? positive? authoritative?
Examples.
God alone is —— and ——.
The Czar of Russia is an —— ruler.
—— power tends always to be —— in its exercise.
On all questions of law in the United States the decision of the —— Court is —— and final.
Learning of the attack on our seamen, the government sent an —— demand for apology and indemnity.
Man's —— will and —— intellect have given him dominion over all other creatures on the earth, so that they are either subjugated or exterminated.