NEAT ( page 249 ).
Questions.
1. What does clean signify? 2. Does orderly apply to persons or things, and in what sense? 3. What does tidy denote? 4. What is the meaning of neat? 5. How does nice compare with neat? 6. What is the significance of spruce? trim? dapper?
Examples.
If he (Jefferson) condescended to turn —— sentences for delicate ears—still, he was essentially an earnest man.
Still to be ——, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast,
Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd.