Excess ( page 160 ).
Questions.
1. What is excess? Is it used in the favorable or unfavorable sense? 2. What is extravagance? 3. What is exorbitance? 4. What kind of excess do overplus and superabundance denote? lavishness and profusion? 5. Is surplus used in the favorable or unfavorable sense? 6. To what do redundance and redundancy chiefly refer? 7. What words are used as synonyms of excess in the moral sense?
Examples.
Saving requires self-denial, and —— is the death of self-denial.
Where there is great —— there usually follows corresponding ——.
—— of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Haste brings ——, and —— brings want.
The —— of the demand caused unfeigned surprise.
More of the present woes of the world are due to —— than to any other single cause.
—— of language often weakens the impression of what would be impressive in sober statement.