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Questions.
1. What is a verbal answer? 2. In what wider sense is answer used? 3. What is a reply? a rejoinder? 4. How does an answer to a charge, an argument, or the like, differ from a reply or rejoinder? 5. What is the special quality of a response? 6. What is a retort? How does it differ from repartee?
Examples.
I can no other —— make, but thanks.
Theirs not to make ——
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Upon thy princely warrant I descend,
To give thee —— of thy just demand.
He could not be content without finding a —— in Nature to every mood of his mind; and he does find it.
A man renowned for ——
Will seldom scruple to make free
With friendship's honest feeling.
Nothing is so easy and inviting as the —— of abuse and sarcasm; but it is a paltry and unprofitable contest.