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by James Champlin Fernald

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Anticipate , Anticipation ( page 47 ).

Questions.

1. What are the two contrasted senses of anticipate? 2. Which is now the more common? 3. How does anticipate differ from expect? from hope? from apprehend? 4. How does anticipation differ from presentiment? from apprehension? from foreboding? 5. What special element is involved in foretaste? How do foresight and forethought go beyond the meaning of anticipation?

Examples.

Then some leaped overboard with fearful yell,
As eager to —— their grave.

England —— every man to do his duty.

These are portents; but yet I ——, I hope,
They do not point on me.

If I know your sect, I —— your argument.

The happy —— of a renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.

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