The spelling-book supersede, or A new and easy method of teaching the spelling, meaning, pronunciation, and etymology of all the difficult words in the English language

With exercises on verbal distinctions

... meaning of a word has been lost, or is no longer in use, yet in general it will be
found to pervade all its secondary or figurative applications. ... To the Latin
language, in particular, the English is indebted for a large portion of its
vocabulary.