Massacre ( page 237 ).
Questions.
1. What is massacre? butchery? havoc? 2. To what does carnage especially refer? slaughter? 3. Which of these words can be used of the destruction of life in open and honorable warfare?
Examples.
Mark! where his —— and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude and calls it peace!
Forbade to wade through —— to a throne,
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
The capture of Port Arthur was followed by a terrible ——.