Artifice ( page 58 ).
Questions.
1. What is an artifice? a device? finesse? 2. In what sense are cheat, maneuver, and imposture always used? 3. In what sense is trick commonly used? 4. What is a fraud? 5. Is wile used in a good or a bad sense? 6. Does the good or the bad sense commonly attach to the words artifice, contrivance, ruse, blind, device, and finesse?
Examples.
Those who can not gain their ends by force naturally resort to ——.
The enemy were decoyed from their defenses by a skilful ——.
Quips and cranks and wanton ——,
Nods and becks and wreathed smiles.
Whoever has even once become notorious by base ——, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.