Attain ( page 64 ).
Questions.
1. What kind of a word is attain, and to what does it point? 2. How does attain differ from obtain? from achieve? 3. How does obtain differ from procure?
Examples.
The heights by great men —— and kept
Were not —— by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might ——
By fearing to attempt.