Word Meaning in the Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language — Unit test

Question 1

Read the sentence from Samuel Johnson's preface to A Dictionary of the English Language.I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as the pure sources of genuine diction.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

pure, genuine

Question 2

Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.Nor have We been wanting in attention to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

to convince readers that Britain has treated the colonists unfairly

Question 3

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Revolt · Accepted Answer

compare them to the features of the atom.

Question 4

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Revolt · Accepted Answer

it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement

Question 5

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He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers

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