Impediment ( page 213 ).
Questions.
1. What does impediment primarily signify? obstacle? obstruction? 2. How does obstacle differ from obstruction? 3. What is a hindrance? 4. Is an impediment what one finds or what he carries? Is it momentary or constant? What did the Latin impedimenta signify? 5. What is an encumbrance? How does it differ from an obstacle or obstruction? 6. Is a difficulty within one or without?
Examples.
Something between a —— and a help.
Thus far into the bowels of the land
Have we march'd without ——.
Demosthenes became the foremost orator of the world in spite of an —— in his speech.
——s overcome are the stepping-stones by which great men rise.