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bluntly [adv.] in a plain, straightforward way, without consideration of the other person's
feelings

The dean told the girl bluntly that she had failed all her exams and would be expelled
from college.

hardship [n.] a type of difficulty that causes suffering

Life in the western United States would be quite different today if the pioneers had
not been willing to suffer the many hardships of crossing the plains in covered
wagons back in the 1800s.

ANECDOTE:

The time was 1870. The pace was a small town in Pennsylvania. The occasion was a
political campaign for the approaching county election.

The candidate, standing before a sizable crowd, ranted on for over an hour about his many
grueling experiences while helping defend his country. "Fellow citizens," he bellowed, "I was in
the Civil War and have fought the Indians. Sometimes I had no bed but the battlefield, canopy
but the sky. I have plodded over the frozen ground until every step left marks of blood and my
entire body was numb with cold. Often my life was in great peril, but not once did I grumble."

Finally, one listener, an old woman who had seen a lot life and hard times herself and was
perhaps less gullible than the other in erupted: "Did you say you fought in the Civil War?"

"Yes, my friend, I did," replied the candidate.

"You slept on the ground with only he sky for a cover?"

"That's right."

"your feet bled when you marched over the frozen ground?"

"Indeed they did."

"Well, then," said the old lady bluntly. "You've suffered more than enough hardships for
your country already. I'll vote for your opponent."

ORAL EXERCSE

Supply the word that corresponds to the definition in each of these sentences.

1. Walking slowly and steadily is ------------------------

2. If you are in danger you are in ------------------------

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