Fierce ( page 171 ).
Questions.
1. What does fierce signify? 2. To what does ferocious refer? How do the two words differ? 3. What does savage signify?
Examples.
—— was the day; the wintry sea
Moaned sadly on New England's strand,
When first the thoughtful and the free,
Our fathers, trod the desert land.
Contentions ——,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
The —— savages massacred the survivors to the last man.