KILL ( page 226 ).
Questions.
1. What is it to kill? 2. To what are assassinate, execute, and murder restricted? 3. What is the specific meaning of murder? execute? assassinate? To what class of persons is the latter word ordinarily applied? 4. What is it to slay? 5. To what is massacre limited? With what special meaning is it used? 6. To what do butcher and slaughter primarily apply? What is the sense of each when so used? 7. What is it to despatch?
Examples.
To look into her eyes was to —— doubt.
Two presidents of the United States have been ——.
Hamilton was —— in a duel by Aaron Burr.
The place was carried by storm, and the inhabitants —— without distinction of age or sex.