"--What would be the
contrary of a _cogent_ argument?
(8.) Combine and define enact + ment.--What is meant by the "_enacting_
clause" of a legislative bill?--Write a sentence containing the word
"enact." MODEL: "The British Parliament _enacted_ the stamp-law in 1765."
(9.) Combine and define transact + ion.--What derivative from "perform" is
a synonym of "transaction"?
2. ALIE'NUS, _another_, _foreign_.
Radical: ALIEN-.
1. AL'IEN: from _alienus_ by dropping the termination _us_. DEFINITION: a
foreigner, one owing allegiance to another country than that in which he is
living.
2. AL'IENATE: alien + ate = to cause something to be transferred to
another: hence, (1) to transfer title or property to another; (2) to
estrange, to withdraw.
3. INAL'IENABLE: in + alien + able = that may not be given to another.
EXERCISE.
(1.) Combine and define alien + age.--Can an alien be elected President of
the United States? [See the Constitution, Article II. Sec. I. Clause
5.]--What is the word which expresses the process by which a person is
changed from an _alien_ to a _citizen_?
(2.) Combine and define alienate + ion.--Give a synonym of "alienate" in
its _second_ sense. _Ans._ To _estrange_.--What is meant by saying that
"the oppressive measures of the British government gradually _alienated_
the American colonies from the mother country"?
(3.) Quote a passage from the Declaration of Independence containing the
word "inalienable."
3. AMA'RE, _to love_, AMI'CUS, _a friend_.
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