GET ( page 183 ).
Questions.
1. What is a person said to get? 2. How is get related to expectation or desire? How is gain related to those words? 3. By what processes does one acquire? Is the thing acquired sought or desired, or not? 4. What does one earn? 5. Does a person always get what he earns or always earn what he gets? 6. What does obtain imply? Is the thing one obtains an object of desire? How does obtain differ from get? 7. What does win imply? How is one said to win a suit at law? What is the correct term in legal phrase? Why? 8. By what special element does procure differ from obtain? 9. What is especially implied in secure?
Examples.
He —— a living as umbrella mender but a poor living it is.
—— wisdom and with all thy getting, —— understanding.
In the strange city he found that all his learning would not —— him a dinner.