Adherent ( page 21 ).
Questions.
1. What is an adherent? 2. How does an adherent differ from a supporter? from a disciple? 3. How do both the above words differ from ally? 4. Has partisan a good or a bad sense, and why? 5. Is it well to speak of a supporter as a backer?
Examples.
Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away ——s after them.
Woman is woman's natural ——.
Self-defense compelled the European nations to be ——s against Napoleon.
The deposed monarch was found to have a strong body of ——s.