Excerpt from Word-Analysis: A Graded Class-Book of English Derivative Words, With Practical Exercises in Spelling, Analyzing, Defining, Synonyms, and the Use of Words And by which the analytic faculty Of the, pupil is exercised in trac ing the transition from the primary meaning to the secondary and figurative meanings - thus converting what is ordinarily a matter Of rote into an agreeable exercise Of the thinking faculty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.