English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions
PART II.
QUESTIONS AND EXAMPLES.
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ABANDON (page 1).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what objects or classes of objects does _abandon_ apply? _abdicate_? _cede_? _quit_? _resign_? _surrender_? 2. Is _abandon_ used in the favorable or unfavorable sense? _desert_ favorable or unfavorable? _forsake_? 3. What does _abandon_ commonly denote of previous relationship? _forsake_?
EXAMPLES.
The soldiers ---- his standard in such numbers that the commander found it necessary to ---- the enterprise.
France was compelled to ---- Alsace and Lorraine to Germany.
In the height of his power Charles V. ---- the throne.
Finding resistance vain, the defenders agreed to ---- the fortress.
To the surprise of his friends, Senator Conkling suddenly ---- his office.
At the stroke of the bell, the men instantly ---- work.
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ABASE (page 2).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _abase_ differ from _debase_? _humble_ from _humiliate_? _degrade_ from _disgrace_?
EXAMPLES.
To provide funds, the king resolved to ---- the coinage.
He came from the scene of his disgrace, haughty and defiant, ---- but not ----.
The officer who had ---- himself by cowardice was ---- to the ranks.
Only the base in spirit will ---- themselves before wealth, rank, and power.
The messenger was so ---- that no heed was paid to his message.
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ABASH (page 3).
QUESTIONS.
1. What has the effect to make one _abashed_? 2. How does _confuse_ differ from _abash_? 3. What do we mean when we say that a person is _mortified_? 4. Give an instance of the use of _mortified_ where _abashed_ could not be substituted. Why could not the words be interchanged? 5. Can one be _daunted_ who is not _abashed_? 6. Is _embarrass_ or _mortify_ the stronger word? Give instances.
EXAMPLES.
The peasant stood ---- in the royal presence.
The numerous questions ---- the witness.
The speaker was ---- for a moment, but quickly recovered himself.
At the revelation of such depravity, I was utterly ----.
When sensible of his error, the visitor was deeply ----.
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ABBREVIATION (page 4).
QUESTIONS.
1. Is an _abbreviation_ always a _contraction_? 2. Is a _contraction_ always an _abbreviation_? Give instances. 3. Can we have an _abbreviation_ of a book, paragraph, or sentence? What can be _abbreviated_? and what _abridged_?
EXAMPLES.
The treatise was already so brief that it did not admit of ----.
The ---- Dr. is used both for Doctor and Debtor.
F. R. S. is an ---- of the title "Fellow of the Royal Society."
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ABET (page 4).
QUESTIONS.
1. _Abet_, _incite_, _instigate_: which of these words are used in a good and which in a bad sense? 2. How does _abet_ differ from _incite_ and _instigate_ as to the time of the action? 3. Which of the three words apply to persons and which to actions? Give instances of the use of _abet_; _instigate_; _incite_.
EXAMPLES.
To further his own schemes, he ---- the viceroy to rebel against the king.
To ---- a crime may be worse than to originate it, as arguing less excitement and more calculation and cowardice.
The prosecution was evidently malicious, ---- by envy and revenge.
And you that do ---- him in this kind Cherish rebellion, and are rebels all.
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ABHOR (page 5).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which is the stronger word, _abhor_ or _despise_? 2. What does _abhor_ denote? 3. How does Archbishop Trench illustrate the difference between _abhor_ and _shun_? 4. What does _detest_ express? 5. What does _loathe_ imply? Is it physical or moral in its application? 6. Give illustrations of the appropriate uses of the above words.
EXAMPLES.
He had sunk to such degradation as to be utterly ---- by all good men.
Such weakness can only be ----.
Talebearers and backbiters are everywhere ----.
---- that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
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ABIDE (page 5).
QUESTIONS.
1. What limit of time is expressed by _abide_? by _lodge_? by _live_, _dwell_, _reside_? 2. What is the meaning of _sojourn_? 3. Should we say one is _stopping_ or _staying_ at a hotel? and why? 4. Give examples of the extended, and of the limited use of _abide_.
EXAMPLES.
One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth ---- forever.
And there were in the same country shepherds ---- in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
So great was the crowd of visitors that many were compelled to ---- in the neighboring villages.
He is ---- at the Albemarle.
He has ---- for forty years in the same house.
By faith he ---- in the land of promise, as in a strange country.
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ABOLISH (page 6).
QUESTIONS.
1. Is _abolish_ used of persons or material objects? 2. Of what is it used? Give examples. 3. What does _annihilate_ signify? Is it stronger or weaker than _abolish_? 4. What terms do we use for doing away with _laws_, and how do those terms differ among themselves? 5. What are the differences between _overthrow_, _suppress_, and _subvert_? especially between the last two of those words? 6. How does _prohibit_ differ from _abolish_? 7. What word do we especially use of putting an end to a nuisance? 8. What other words of this class are especially referred to? 9. Give some antonyms of _abolish_.
EXAMPLES.
The one great endeavor of Buddhism is to ---- sorrow.
Modern science seems to show conclusively that matter is never ----.
The law, which had long been ---- by the revolutionists, was at last ---- by the legislature.
The ancient statute was found to have been ---- by later enactments, though never formally ----.
The Supreme Court ---- the adverse decision of the inferior tribunal.
Even in a republic, sedition should be promptly ----, or it may result in the ---- of free institutions.
From the original settlement of Vineland, New Jersey, the sale of intoxicating liquor has been ----.
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ABOMINATION (page 7).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what was _abomination_ originally applied? 2. Does it refer to a state of mind or to some act or other object of thought? 3. How does _abomination_ differ from _aversion_ or _disgust_? 4. How does an _abomination_ differ from an _offense_? from crime in general?
EXAMPLES.
After the ship began to pitch and roll, we could not look upon food without ----.
It is time that such a ---- should be abated.
Capital punishment was formerly inflicted in England for trivial ----.
In spite of their high attainments in learning and art, the foulest ---- were prevalent among the Greeks and Romans of classic antiquity.
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ABRIDGMENT (page 7).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does an _abridgment_ differ from an _outline_ or a _synopsis_? from an _abstract_ or _digest_? 2. How does an _abstract_ or _digest_ differ from an _outline_ or a _synopsis_? 3. Does an _analysis_ of a treatise deal with what is expressed, or with what is implied? 4. What words may we use to express a condensed view of a subject, whether derived from a previous publication or not?
EXAMPLES.
The New Testament may be regarded as an ---- of religion.
There are several excellent ---- of English literature.
An ---- of the decision of the court was published in all the leading papers.
The publishers determined to issue an ---- of their dictionary.
Such ---- as U. S. for United States should be rarely used, unless in hasty writing or technical works.
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ABSOLUTE (page 8).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _absolute_ in the strict sense denote? _supreme_? 2. To what are these words in such sense properly applied? 3. How are they used in a modified sense? 4. Is _arbitrary_ ever used in a good sense? What is the chief use? Give examples. 5. How does _autocratic_ differ from _arbitrary_? both these words from _despotic_? _despotic_ from _tyrannical_? 6. Is _irresponsible_ good or bad in its implication? _arbitrary_? _imperative_? _imperious_? _peremptory_? _positive_? _authoritative_?
EXAMPLES.
God alone is ---- and ----.
The Czar of Russia is an ---- ruler.
---- power tends always to be ---- in its exercise.
On all questions of law in the United States the decision of the ---- Court is ---- and final.
Learning of the attack on our seamen, the government sent an ---- demand for apology and indemnity.
Man's ---- will and ---- intellect have given him dominion over all other creatures on the earth, so that they are either subjugated or exterminated.
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ABSOLVE (page 9).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original sense of _absolve_? 2. To what does it apply? 3. What is its special sense when used with reference to sins? 4. How does it differ from _acquit_? _forgive_? _justify_? _pardon_? 5. What are the chief antonyms of _absolve_?
EXAMPLES.
No power under heaven can ---- a man from his personal responsibility.
When the facts were known, he was ---- of all blame.
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ABSORB (page 9).
QUESTIONS.
1. When is a fluid said to be _absorbed_? 2. Is the substance of the _absorbing_ body changed by that which it _absorbs_? Give instances. 3. How does _consume_ differ from _absorb_? 4. Give instances of the distinctive uses of _engross_, _swallow_, _imbibe_, and _absorb_ in the figurative sense. 5. What is the difference between _absorb_ and _emit_? _absorb_ and _radiate_?
EXAMPLES.
Tho the fuel was rapidly ---- within the furnace, very little heat was ---- from the outer surface.
In setting steel rails special provision must be made for their expansion under the influence of the heat that they ----.
Jip stood on the table and barked at Traddles so persistently that he may be said to have ---- the conversation.
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ABSTINENCE (page 10).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _abstinence_ differ from _abstemiousness_? from _self-denial_? 2. What is _temperance_ regarding things lawful and worthy? regarding things vicious and injurious? 3. What is the more exact term for the proper course regarding evil indulgences?
EXAMPLES.
He was so moderate in his desires that his ---- seemed to cost him no ----.
Among the Anglo-Saxons the idea of universal and total ---- from all intoxicants is little more than a century old.
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ABSTRACT, _v._; ABSTRACTED (page 10, 11).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _abstract_ and _separate_? between _discriminate_ and _distinguish_?[C] 2. How does _abstract_, when said of the mind, differ from _divert_? from _distract_? 3. How do _abstracted_, _absorbed_, and _preoccupied_ differ from _absent-minded_? 4. Can one who is _preoccupied_ be said to be _listless_ or _thoughtless_? one who is _absent-minded_?
EXAMPLES.
He was so ---- with these perplexities as to be completely ---- of his surroundings.
The busy student may be excused if ----; in the merely ---- or ---- it is intolerable.
The power to ---- one idea from all its associations and view it alone is the ---- mark of a philosophical mind.
Numerous interruptions in the midst of ---- occupations had made him almost ----.
[C] NOTE. See these words under DISCERN as referred to at the end of the paragraph on ABSTRACT in Part I. The pupil should be instructed, in all cases, to look up and read over the synonyms referred to by the words in small capitals at the end of the paragraph in Part I.
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ABSURD (page 11).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _absurd_ and _paradoxical_? 2. What are the distinctions between _irrational_, _foolish_, and _silly_? 3. What is the especial implication in _unreasonable_? 4. How do _monstrous_ and _preposterous_ compare with _absurd_? 5. What is the especial element common to the _ludicrous_, the _ridiculous_, and the _nonsensical_? 6. What are some chief antonyms of _absurd_?
EXAMPLES.
A statement may be disproved by deducing logically from it a conclusion that is ----.
Carlyle delighted in ---- utterances.
The ---- hatred of the Jews in the Middle Ages led the populace to believe the most ---- slanders concerning them.
I attempted to dissuade him from the ---- plan, but found him altogether ----; many of his arguments were so ---- as to be positively ----.
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ABUSE (page 12).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _abuse_ apply? 2. How does _abuse_ differ from _damage_ (as in the case of rented property, _e. g._)? 3. How does _abuse_ differ from _harm_? 4. What words of this group are used in a bad sense? 5. Is _reproach_ good or bad? 6. How do _persecute_ and _oppress_ differ? 7. Do _misemploy_, _misuse_, and _pervert_ apply to persons or things? To which does _abuse_ apply?
EXAMPLES.
The tenant shall not ---- the property beyond reasonable wear.
---- intellectual gifts make the dangerous villain.
In his rage he began to ---- and ---- all who had formerly been his friends.
To be ---- for doing right can never really ---- a true man.
In no way has man ---- his fellow man more cruelly than by ---- him for his religious belief.
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ACCESSORY, _n._ (page 13).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which words of this group are used in a good, and which in a bad sense? 2. Which are indifferently either good or bad? 3. To what does _ally_ generally apply? _colleague_? 4. How does an _associate_ compare in rank with a principal? 5. Is _assistant_ or _attendant_ the higher word? How do both these words compare with _associate_? 6. In what sense are _follower_, _henchman_, and _retainer_ used? _partner_? 7. What is the legal distinction between _abettor_ and _accessory_? 8. To what is _accomplice_ nearly equivalent? Which is the preferred legal term?
EXAMPLES.
The Senator differed with his ---- in this matter.
The baron rode into town with a great array of armed ----.
France and Russia seem to have become firm ----.
The ---- called to the ---- for a fresh bandage.
All persons, but especially the young, should take the greatest care in the choice of their ----.
As he was not present at the actual commission of the crime, he was held to be only an ---- and not an ----.
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ACCIDENT (page 14).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _accident_ and _chance_? 2. How does _incident_ differ from both? 3. What is the special significance of _fortune_? 4. How does it differ in usage from _chance_? 5. How are _accident_, _misadventure_, and _mishap_ distinguished?
EXAMPLES.
Gambling clings almost inseparably to games of ----.
Bruises and contusions are regarded as ordinary ---- of the cavalry service.
The prudent man is careful not to tempt ---- too far.
The misplacement of the switch caused a terrible ----.
Great thoughts and high purposes keep one from being greatly disturbed by the little ---- of daily life.
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ACQUAINTANCE (page 15).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _acquaintance_ between persons imply? 2. How does _acquaintance_ differ from _companionship_? _acquaintance_ from _friendship_? from _intimacy_? 3. How does _fellowship_ differ from _friendship_?
EXAMPLES.
A public speaker becomes known to many persons whom he does not know, but who are ready promptly to claim ---- with him.
The ---- of life must bring us into ---- with many who can not be admitted within the inner circle of ----.
The ---- of school and college life often develop into the most beautiful and enduring ----.
Between those most widely separated by distance of place and time, by language, station, occupation, and creed, there may yet be true ---- of soul.
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ACRIMONY (page 15).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _acerbity_ differ from _asperity_? _asperity_ from _acrimony_? 2. How is _acrimony_ distinguished from _malignity_? _malignity_ from _virulence_? 3. What is implied in the use of the word _severity_?
EXAMPLES.
A certain ---- of speech had become habitual with him.
To this ill-timed request, he answered with sudden ----.
A constant sense of injustice may deepen into a settled ----.
This smooth and pleasing address veiled a deep ----.
Great ---- will be patiently borne if the sufferer is convinced of its essential justice.
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ACT (page 16).
QUESTIONS.
1. How is _act_ distinguished from _action_? from _deed_? 2. Which of the words in this group necessarily imply an external effect? Which may be wholly mental?
EXAMPLES.
He who does the truth will need no instruction as to individual ----s.
---- is the truth of thought.
The ---- is done.
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ACTIVE (page 17).
QUESTIONS.
1. With what two sets of words is _active_ allied? 2. How does _active_ differ from _busy_? from _industrious_? 3. How do _active_ and _restless_ compare? 4. To what sort of activity does _officious_ refer? 6. What are some chief antonyms of _active_?
EXAMPLES.
Being of an ---- disposition and without settled purpose or definite occupation, she became ---- as a hornet.
He had his ---- days and hours, but could never be properly said to be ----.
An ---- attendant instantly seized upon my baggage.
The true student is ---- from the mere love of learning, independently of its rewards.
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ACUMEN (page 18).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do _sharpness_, _acuteness_, _penetration_, and _insight_ compare with _acumen_? 2. What is the special characteristic of _acumen_? To what order of mind does it belong? 3. What is _sagacity_? Is it attributed to men or brutes? 4. What is _perspicacity_? 5. What is _shrewdness_? Is it ordinarily good or evil? 6. Give illustrations of the uses of the above words as regards the possessors of the corresponding qualities.
EXAMPLES.
The treatise displays great critical ----.
The Indians had developed a practical ---- that enabled them to follow a trail by scarcely perceptible signs almost as unerringly as the hound by scent.
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ADD (page 18).
QUESTIONS.
1. How is _add_ related to _increase_? How does it differ from _multiply_? 2. What does _augment_ signify? Of what is it ordinarily used? 3. To what does _amplify_ apply? 4. In what ways may a discourse or treatise be _amplified_?
EXAMPLES.
Care to our coffin ---- a nail no doubt; And every grin, so merry, draws one out.
---- up at night, what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do.
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ADDRESS, _v._ (page 19).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _accost_ always signify? _greet_? _hail_? 2. How does _salute_ differ from _accost_ or _greet_? _address_? 3. What is it to _apostrophize_?
EXAMPLES.
The pale snowdrop is springing To ---- the glowing sun.
---- to the Chief who in triumph advances.
His faithful dog ---- the smiling guest.
---- ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and died in freedom's cause.
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ADDRESS, _n._ (page 20).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _address_ in the sense here considered? 2. What is _tact_? 3. What qualities are included in _address_?
EXAMPLES.
And the tear that is wiped with a little ---- May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
The ---- of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking; I could wish ---- would invent some other custom of entertainment.
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ADEQUATE (page 21).
QUESTIONS.
1. What do _adequate_, _commensurate_, and _sufficient_ alike signify? How does _commensurate_ specifically differ from the other two words? Give examples. 2. To what do _adapted_, _fit_, _suitable_, and _qualified_ refer? 3. Is _satisfactory_ a very high recommendation of any work? Why? 4. Is _able_ or _capable_ the higher word? Illustrate.
EXAMPLES.
We know not of what we are ---- till the trial comes.
Indeed, left nothing ---- for your purpose untouched, slightly handled, in discourse.
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ADHERENT (page 21).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _adherent_? 2. How does an _adherent_ differ from a _supporter_? from a _disciple_? 3. How do both the above words differ from _ally_? 4. Has _partisan_ a good or a bad sense, and why? 5. Is it well to speak of a _supporter_ as a _backer_?
EXAMPLES.
Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away ----s after them.
Woman is woman's natural ----.
Self-defense compelled the European nations to be ----s against Napoleon.
The deposed monarch was found to have a strong body of ----s.
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ADJACENT (page 22).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _adjacent_ and _adjoining_? _contiguous_? _conterminous_? 2. What distance is implied in _near_? _neighboring_? 3. What does _next_ always imply? 4. Give antonyms of _adjacent_; _near_.
EXAMPLES.
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw ---- to their eternal home.
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ADMIRE (page 23).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what sense was _admire_ formerly used? What does it now express? 2. How does _admire_ compare with _revere_? _venerate_? _adore_? Give instances of the use of these words.
EXAMPLES.
The beautiful are sure to be ----.
Henceforth the majesty of God ----; Fear him, and you have nothing else to fear.
I value Science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to ----: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.
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ADORN (page 23).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _adorn_ differ from _ornament_? from _garnish_? from _deck_ or _bedeck_? from _decorate_?
EXAMPLES.
At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks ---- the venerable place.
The red breast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered flowers, To ---- the ground where thou art laid.
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AFFRONT (page 24).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _affront_? 2. How does _affront_ compare with _insult_? with _tease_? _annoy_?
EXAMPLES.
It is safer to ---- some people than to oblige them; for the better a man deserves, the worse they will speak of him.
Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches ---- the brain.
The petty desire to ---- is simply a perversion of the human love of power.
They rushed to meet the ---- foe.
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AGENT (page 24).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _agent_ in the philosophical sense compare with _mover_ or _doer_? 2. What different sense has it in business usage?
EXAMPLES.
That morality may mean anything, man must be held to be a free ----.
The ---- declined to take the responsibility in the absence of the owner.
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AGREE (page 25).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do _concur_ and _coincide_ differ in range of meaning? How with reference to expression in action? 2. How does _accede_ compare with _consent_? 3. Which is the most general word of this group?
EXAMPLES.
A woman's lot is made for her by the love she ----.
My poverty, but not my will, ----.
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AGRICULTURE (page 25).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _agriculture_ include? How does it differ from _farming_? 2. What is _gardening_? _floriculture_? _horticulture_?
EXAMPLES.
Loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of ----.
A field becomes exhausted by constant ----.
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AIM (page 26).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _aim_? How does it differ from _mark_? from _goal_? 2. How do _end_ and _object_ compare? 3. To what does _aspiration_ apply? How does it differ in general from _design_, _endeavor_, or _purpose_? 4. How does _purpose_ compare with _intention_? 5. What is _design_?
EXAMPLES.
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable ---- that end with self.
O yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final ---- of ill.
How quickly nature falls into revolt, When gold becomes her ----.
It is not ----, but ambition that is the mother of misery in man.
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AIR (page 27).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _air_ in the sense here considered? 2. How does _air_ differ from _appearance_? 3. What is the difference between _expression_ and _look_? 4. What is the sense of _bearing_? _carriage_? 5. How does _mien_ differ from _air_? 6. What does _demeanor_ include?
EXAMPLES.
I never, with important ----, In conversation overbear.
Vice is a monster of so frightful ----, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen.
Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty ----, repeats his words.
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AIRY (page 27).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _airy_ agree with and differ from _aerial_? Give instances of the uses of the two words. 2. What does _ethereal_ signify? _sprightly_? 3. Are _lively_ and _animated_ used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
---- tongues that syllable men's names, on sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
The ---- mold Incapable of stain, would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious.
Society became my glittering bride, And ---- hopes my children.
Soft o'er the shrouds ---- whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.
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ALARM (page 28).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation and distinctive meaning of _alarm_? 2. What do _affright_ and _fright_ express? Give an illustration of the contrasted terms. 3. How are _apprehension_, _disquietude_, _dread_, and _misgiving_ related to the danger that excites them? 4. What are _consternation_, _dismay_, and _terror_, and how are they related to the danger? 5. What is _timidity_?
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ALERT (page 28).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what do _alert_, _wide-awake_, and _ready_ refer? 2. How does _ready_ differ from _alert_? from _prepared_? 3. What does _prompt_ signify? 4. What is the secondary meaning of _alert_?
EXAMPLES.
To be ---- for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace.
He who is not ---- to-day will be less so to-morrow.
Thus ending loudly, as he would o'erleap His destiny, ---- he stood.
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ALIEN, _a. & n._ (page 29).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _alien_ differ from _foreign_? 2. Is a _foreigner_ by birth necessarily an _alien_? 3. Are the people of one country while residing in their own land _foreigners_ or _aliens_ to the people of other lands? 4. How can one residing in a _foreign_ country cease to be an _alien_ in that country? 5. How do _foreign_ and _alien_ differ in their figurative use?
EXAMPLES.
By ---- hands thy dying eyes were closed . . . By ---- hands thy humble grave adorned By strangers honored and by strangers mourned.
What is religion? Not a ---- inhabitant, nor something ---- to our nature, which comes and takes up its abode in the soul.
---- from the commonwealth of Israel and ---- from the covenants of promise.
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ALIKE (page 30).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _alike_ compare with _similar_? with _identical_? 2. What is the distinction often made between _equal_ and _equivalent_? 3. What is the sense of _analogous_? (Compare synonyms for ANALOGY.) 4. In what sense is _homogeneous_ used?
EXAMPLES.
Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful; never the ---- for two moments together.
Fashioned for himself, a bride; An ----, taken from his side.
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ALLAY (page 31).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinction between _allay_ and _alleviate_? Which word implies a partial removal of the cause of suffering, or an actual _lightening_ of the burden? 2. With which of the above words are we to class _appease_, _pacify_, _soothe_, and the like? 3. With what words is _alleviate_ especially to be grouped? (See synonyms for ALLEVIATE.)
EXAMPLES.
Such songs have power to ---- The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer.
Many a word, at random spoken May ---- or wound a heart that's broken!
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ALLEGE (page 31).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which is the primary and which the secondary word, _allege_ or _adduce_? Why? 2. How much of certainty is implied in _allege_? 3. How much does one admit when he speaks of an _alleged_ fact, document, signature, or the like?
EXAMPLES.
In many ---- cases of haunted houses, the spirits have not ventured to face an armed man who has passed the night there.
I can not ---- one thing and mean another. If I can't pray I will not make believe!
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ALLEGORY (page 33).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _allegory_ compare with _simile_? _Simile_ with _metaphor_? 2. What are the distinctions between _allegory_, _fable_, and _parable_? 3. Under what general term are all these included? 4. To what is _fiction_ now most commonly applied?
EXAMPLES.
In argument ---- are like songs in love: They much describe; they nothing prove.
And He spake many things unto them in ----, saying, Behold a sower went forth to sow.
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ALLEVIATE (page 33).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _alleviate_ differ from _relieve_? from _remove_? 2. Is _alleviate_ used of persons? 3. What are the special significations of _abate_? _assuage_? _mitigate_? _moderate_? 4. How does _alleviate_ compare with _allay_? (Compare synonyms for ALLAY.)
EXAMPLES.
To pity distress is but human; to ---- it is Godlike.
But, O! what mighty magician can ---- A woman's envy?
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ALLIANCE (page 34).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _alliance_? how does it differ from _partnership_? from _coalition_? from _league_? 2. How does a _confederacy_ or _federation_ differ from a _union_?
EXAMPLES.
The two nations formed an offensive and defensive ---- against the common enemy.
Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled, In the Parliament of man, the ---- of the world.
Business ---- are the warrant for the existence of trade ----.
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ALLOT (page 34).
QUESTIONS.
1. Does _allot_ refer to time, place, or person? 2. To what does _appoint_ refer? _assign_? 3. How does _destine_ differ from _appoint_? 4. How does _award_ differ from _allot_, _appoint_, and _assign_?
EXAMPLES.
Man hath his daily work of body or mind ----.
He ----eth the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down.
The king is but as the hind ... Who may not wander from the ---- field Before his work be done.
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ALLOW (page 35).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _allow_ and _permit_? between a _permit_ and _permission_? 2. What instances can you give of the use of these words, also of _tolerate_ and _submit_? 3. What does _yield_ imply?
EXAMPLES.
Frederick ---- the Austrians to cross the mountains that he might attack them on a field of his own choosing.
The cruelty and envy of the people ---- by our dastard nobles, who Have all forsook me, hath devoured the rest.
State churches have ever been unwilling to ---- dissent.
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ALLUDE (page 36).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive sense of _allude_? of _advert_? of _refer_? 2. How do the above words compare with _mention_ as to explicitness? 3. How do _hint_ and _insinuate_ differ?
EXAMPLES.
Late in the eighteenth century Cowper did not venture to do more than ---- to the great allegorist [Bunyan], saying:
"I name thee not, lest so despised a name Should move a sneer at thy deserved fame."
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ALLURE (page 37).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _allure_? 2. How does _allure_ differ from _attract_? from _lure_? 3. What does _coax_ express? 4. What is it to _cajole_? to _decoy_? to _inveigle_? 5. How does _seduce_ differ from _tempt_? 6. Is _win_ used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
The ruddy square of comfortable light ---- him, as the beacon blaze ---- The bird of passage.
But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And ---- by making rich, not making poor.
He had a strange gift of ---- friends, and of ---- the love of women.
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ALSO (page 37).
QUESTIONS.
1. Into what two groups are the synonyms for _also_ naturally divided? 2. Which words simply add a fact or thought? 3. Which distinctly imply that what is added is like that to which it is added?
EXAMPLES.
Thine to work ---- to pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in.
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ALTERNATIVE (page 38).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _choice_ and _alternative_ in the strict use of language? 2. Is _alternative_ always so severely restricted by leading writers? 3. What do _choice_, _pick_, _election_, and _preference_ imply regarding one's wishes? _alternative_? _resources_?
EXAMPLES.
Homer delights to call Ulysses "the man of many ----."
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AMASS (page 38).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _amass_? 2. How is _amass_ distinguished from _accumulate_? 3. Is interest _amassed_ or _accumulated_? 4. How does _hoard_ differ from _store_?
EXAMPLES.
By daring and successful speculation, he ---- a prodigious fortune.
The sum was the ---- savings of an industrious and frugal life.
O, to what purpose dost thou ---- thy words, That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?
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AMATEUR (page 39).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _amateur_ and _connoisseur_? between _connoisseur_ and _critic_? 2. Which word carries a natural implication of superficialness? 3. How do _novice_ and _tyro_ differ from _amateur_?
EXAMPLES.
He was in Logic a great ---- Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.
The greatest works in poetry, painting, and sculpture have not been done by ----.
The mere ---- who produces nothing, and whose business is only to judge and enjoy.
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AMAZEMENT (page 39).
QUESTIONS.
1. What do _amazement_ and _astonishment_ agree in expressing? 2. How do the two words differ? 3. What is the meaning of _awe_? of _admiration_? 4. How does _surprise_ differ from _astonishment_ and _amazement_? 5. What are the characteristics of _wonder_?
EXAMPLES.
'Twas while he toiled him to be freed, And with the rein to raise the steed, That, from ----'s iron trance, All Wycklif's soldiers waked at once.
Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special ----?
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth that testified ----.
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AMBITION (page 40).
QUESTIONS.
1. What two senses has _ambition_? 2. How does _ambition_ differ from _aspiration_? Which is the higher word? 3. What is the distinctive sense of _emulation_? 4. Has _emulation_ a good side? How does it compare with _aspiration_?
EXAMPLES.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ---- By that sin, fell the angels.
Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is ---- in the learn'd or brave.
I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ----.
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AMEND (page 41).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _amend_? 2. How do _advance_, _better_, and _improve_ differ from _amend_? 3. Are these words applied to matters decidedly bad, foul, or evil? 4. What is the difference between _amend_ and _emend_?
EXAMPLES.
Return ye now every man from his evil way, and ---- your doings.
The construction here is difficult, and the text at this point has been variously ----.
Human characters and conditions never reach such perfection that they can not be ----.
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AMIABLE (page 42).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _lovely_ often apply? 2. To what does _amiable_ always apply? 3. How do _agreeable_, _attractive_, and _charming_ differ from _amiable_? Give examples. 4. Is a _good-natured_ person necessarily _agreeable_? an _amiable_ person?
EXAMPLES.
His life was ----; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!
The east is blossoming! Yea a rose, Vast as the heavens, soft as a kiss, ---- as the presence of woman is.
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ANALOGY (page 43).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the specific meaning of _analogy_? 2. What is _affinity_? _coincidence_? 3. Does _coincidence_ necessarily involve _resemblance_ or _likeness_? 4. What is _parity_ of _reasoning_? 5. What is a _similitude_? 6. How do _resemblance_ and _similarity_ differ from _analogy_?
EXAMPLES.
The two boys bore a close ---- to each other.
It is not difficult to trace the ---- of the home to the state.
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ANGER (page 44).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the especial characteristics of _anger_? How does it differ from _indignation_? _exasperation_? _rage_? _wrath_? _ire_?
EXAMPLES.
My enemy has long borne me a feeling of ----.
Christ was filled with ---- at the hypocrisy of the Jews.
I was overcome by a sudden feeling of ----.
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ANIMAL (page 45).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _animal_? a _brute_? a _beast_? 2. Is man an _animal_? 3. What is implied if we speak of any particular man as an _animal_? a _brute_? a _beast_? 4. What forms of existence does the word _creature_ include? 5. What are the animals of a country or region collectively called?
EXAMPLES.
It is only within the last half century that societies have been organized for the prevention of cruelty to ----.
O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into ----!
Take a ---- out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.
Spurning manhood and its joys to loot, To be a lawless, lazy, sensual ----.
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ANNOUNCE (page 46).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _announce_? 2. Does it apply chiefly to the past or the future? 3. To what is _advertise_ chiefly applied? _propound_? _promulgate_? _publish_?
EXAMPLES.
The Sphinx ---- its riddles with life and death depending on the answer.
Through the rare felicity of the times you are permitted to think what you please and to ---- what you please.
The songs of birds and the wild flowers in the woodlands ---- the coming of spring.
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ANSWER (page 46).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a verbal _answer_? 2. In what wider sense is _answer_ used? 3. What is a _reply_? a _rejoinder_? 4. How does an _answer_ to a charge, an argument, or the like, differ from a _reply_ or _rejoinder_? 5. What is the special quality of a _response_? 6. What is a _retort_? How does it differ from _repartee_?
EXAMPLES.
I can no other ---- make, but thanks.
Theirs not to make ---- Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
Upon thy princely warrant I descend, To give thee ---- of thy just demand.
He could not be content without finding a ---- in Nature to every mood of his mind; and he does find it.
A man renowned for ---- Will seldom scruple to make free With friendship's honest feeling.
Nothing is so easy and inviting as the ---- of abuse and sarcasm; but it is a paltry and unprofitable contest.
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ANTICIPATE, ANTICIPATION (page 47).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the two contrasted senses of _anticipate_? 2. Which is now the more common? 3. How does _anticipate_ differ from _expect_? from _hope_? from _apprehend_? 4. How does _anticipation_ differ from _presentiment_? from _apprehension_? from _foreboding_? 5. What special element is involved in _foretaste_? How do _foresight_ and _forethought_ go beyond the meaning of _anticipation_?
EXAMPLES.
Then some leaped overboard with fearful yell, As eager to ---- their grave.
England ---- every man to do his duty.
These are portents; but yet I ----, I hope, They do not point on me.
If I know your sect, I ---- your argument.
The happy ---- of a renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
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ANTIPATHY (page 48).
QUESTIONS.
1. How is _antipathy_ to be distinguished from _dislike_? from _antagonism_? from _aversion_? 2. What is _uncongeniality_? How does it differ from _antipathy_? Which is positive? and which negative?
EXAMPLES.
Christianity is the solvent of all race ----.
From my soul I loathe All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn, object of my implacable ----.
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ANTIQUE (page 48).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _antique_ refer? _antiquated_? 2. Is the difference between them a matter of time? Give examples. 3. Can a modern building be _antiquated_? Can it be _antique_? 4. What is the significance of _quaint_?
EXAMPLES.
My copper lamps, at any rate, For being true ----, I bought.
I do love these ---- ruins, We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
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ANXIETY (page 49).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _anxiety_ in the primary sense? Is it mental or physical? 2. How does _anxiety_ differ from _anguish_? 3. What kind of possibility does _anxiety_ always suggest? 4. How does it differ from _apprehension_, _fear_, _dread_, etc., in this regard? 5. What is _worry_? _fretfulness_? 6. Does _perplexity_ involve anxiety?
EXAMPLES.
Yield not to ---- the future, weep not for the past.
Superstition invested the slightest incidents of life with needless ----.
---- is harder than work, and far less profitable.
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APATHY (page 50).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _apathy_? 2. How does it differ from the Saxon word _unfeelingness_? from _indifference_? from _insensibility_? from _unconcern_? 3. How does _stoicism_ differ from _apathy_?
EXAMPLES.
In lazy ---- let stoics boast Their virtue fixed: 'tis fixed as in a frost.
At length the morn and cold ---- came.
He sank into a ---- from which it was impossible to arouse him.
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APOLOGY (page 51).
QUESTIONS.
1. What change of meaning has _apology_ undergone? 2. What does an _apology_ now always imply? 3. How does an _apology_ differ from an _excuse_? 4. Which of these words may refer to the future? 5. How does _confession_ differ from _apology_?
EXAMPLES.
---- only account for that which they do not alter.
Beauty is its own ---- for being.
There is no refuge from ---- but suicide; and suicide is ----.
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APPARENT (page 52).
QUESTIONS.
1. What two contrasted senses arise from the root meaning of _apparent_? 2. What is implied when we speak of _apparent_ kindness or _apparent_ neglect? 3. How do _presumable_ and _probable_ differ? 4. What implication is conveyed in _seeming_? What do we suggest when we speak of "_seeming_ innocence"?
EXAMPLES.
It is not ---- that the students will attempt to break the rules again.
It is not yet ---- what his motive could have been in committing such an offense.
It is ---- that something has been omitted which was essential to complete the construction.
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APPETITE (page 54).
QUESTIONS.
1. Of what kind of demands or impulses is _appetite_ ordinarily used? 2. What demands or tendencies are included in _passion_? 3. What is implied by _passions_ and _appetites_ when used as contrasted terms?
EXAMPLES.
Govern well thy ----, lest sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
Take heed lest ---- sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.
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APPORTION (page 54).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the special significance of _apportion_ by which it is distinguished from _allot_, _assign_, _distribute_, or _divide_? 2. What is the significance of _dispense_ in the transitive use? 3. What is it to _appropriate_?
EXAMPLES.
Representatives are ---- among the several states according to the population.
The treasure was ---- and their shares duly ---- among the captors.
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APPROXIMATION (page 55).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _approximation_ in the mathematical sense? 2. How close an approach to exactness and certainty does _approximation_ imply? 3. How does _approximation_ differ from _resemblance_ and _similarity_? from _approach_? 4. How does _approximation_, as regards the class of objects to which it is applied, differ from _nearness_, _neighborhood_, or _propinquity_?
EXAMPLES.
We have to be content with ---- to a solution.
Without faith, there is no real ---- to God.
Wit consists in knowing the ---- of things which differ, and the difference of things which are alike.
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ARMS (page 55).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _arms_ and _armor_? 2. In what connection is _armor_ used in modern warfare?
EXAMPLES.
---- on ---- clashing brayed Horrible discord.
There is constant rivalry between irresistible projectiles and impenetrable ----.
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ARMY (page 56).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the essentials of an _army_? 2. Is an _army_ large or small? 3. What term would be applied to a _multitude_ of armed men without order or organization? 4. In what sense is _host_ used? _legion_?
EXAMPLES.
For the ---- is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous, prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
The still-discordant wavering ----.
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ARRAIGN (page 56).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what kind of proceedings do _indict_ and _arraign_ apply? 2. How is one _indicted_? How _arraigned_? 3. How do these words differ from _charge_? _accuse_? _censure_?
EXAMPLES.
The criminal was ---- for trial for his offenses.
Religion does not ---- or exclude unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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ARTIFICE (page 58).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _artifice_? a _device_? _finesse_? 2. In what sense are _cheat_, _maneuver_, and _imposture_ always used? 3. In what sense is _trick_ commonly used? 4. What is a _fraud_? 5. Is _wile_ used in a good or a bad sense? 6. Does the good or the bad sense commonly attach to the words _artifice_, _contrivance_, _ruse_, _blind_, _device_, and _finesse_?
EXAMPLES.
Those who can not gain their ends by force naturally resort to ----.
The enemy were decoyed from their defenses by a skilful ----.
Quips and cranks and wanton ----, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles.
Whoever has even once become notorious by base ----, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.
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ARTIST (page 58).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _artist_? an _artisan_? 2. What is an _artificer_? How related to _artist_ and _artisan_?
EXAMPLES.
The power depends on the depth of the ----'s insight of that object he contemplates.
Infuse into the purpose with which you follow the various employments and professions of life the sense of beauty, and you are transformed at once from an ---- into an ----.
If too many ---- turn shopkeepers, the whole natural quantity of that business divided among them all may afford too small a share for each.
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ASK (page 59).
QUESTIONS.
1. For what class of objects does one _ask_? For what does he _beg_? 2. How do _entreat_ and _beseech_ compare with _ask_? 3. What is the special sense of _implore_? of _supplicate_? 4. How are _crave_ and _request_ distinguished? _pray_ and _petition_? 5. What kind of _asking_ is implied in _demand_? in _require_? How do these two words differ from one another?
EXAMPLES.
We, ignorant of ourselves, ---- often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good: so we find profit, By losing of our prayers.
The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: ---- ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
Speak with me, pity me, open the door, A beggar ---- that never begg'd before.
Be not afraid to ----; to ---- is right. ----, if thou canst, with hope; but ever ----. Though hope be weak or sick with long delay; ---- in the darkness, if there be no light.
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ASSOCIATE (page 60).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _associate_ imply, as used officially? What when used in popular language? 2. Do we speak of associates in crime or wrong? What words are preferred in such connection? (See synonyms for ACCESSORY.) 3. Is _companion_ used in a good or bad sense? 4. How does it differ in use from _associate_? 5. What is the significance of _peer_? _comrade_? _consort_?
EXAMPLES.
His best ----, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
The ---- accepted Napoleon's abdication.
The leader in the plot was betrayed by his ----.
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ASSUME (page 61).
QUESTIONS.
1. Does _assume_ apply to that which is rightfully or wrongfully taken? 2. In what use does _assume_ correspond with _arrogate_ and _usurp_? 3. How do _arrogate_ and _usurp_ differ from each other? How does _assume_ differ from _postulate_ as regards debate or reasoning of any kind?
EXAMPLES.
Wherefore do I ---- These royalties, and not refuse to reign.
---- a virtue if you have it not.
For well we know no hand of blood and bone Can gripe the sacred handle of our scepter, Unless he do profane, steal, or ----.
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ASSURANCE (page 61).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _assurance_ in the good sense? 2. What is _assurance_ in the bad sense? 3. How does _assurance_ compare with _impudence_? with _effrontery_?
EXAMPLES.
Let us draw near with a true heart in full ---- of faith.
Some wicked wits have libel'd all the fair. With matchless ---- they style a wife The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life.
With brazen ---- he denied the most indisputable facts.
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ASTUTE (page 62).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _acute_ derived? What is its distinctive sense? 2. From what language is _keen_ derived? What does it distinctively denote? 3. From what language is _astute_ derived, and what was its original meaning? 4. In present use what does _astute_ add to the meaning of _acute_ or _keen_? 5. What does _astute_ imply regarding the ulterior purpose or object of the person who is credited with it?
EXAMPLES.
You statesmen are so ---- in forming schemes!
He taketh the wise in their own ----ness.
The most ---- reasoner may be deluded, when he practises sophistry upon himself.
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ATTACHMENT (page 63).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _attachment_? How does it differ from _adherence_ or _adhesion_? from _affection_? from _inclination_? from _regard_?
EXAMPLES.
Talk not of wasted ----, ---- never was wasted.
You do not weaken your ---- for your family by cultivating ----s beyond its pale, but deepen and intensify it.
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ATTACK, _v. & n._ (pages 63, 64).
QUESTIONS.
1. What special element is involved in the meaning of _attack_? 2. How do _assail_ and _assault_ differ? 3. What is it to _encounter_? how does this word compare with _attack_? How does _attack_ differ from _aggression_?
EXAMPLES.
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his ----; How few themselves in that just mirror see!
Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open ----?
Roger Williams ---- the spirit of intolerance, the doctrine of persecution, and never his persecutors.
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ATTAIN (page 64).
QUESTIONS.
1. What kind of a word is _attain_, and to what does it point? 2. How does _attain_ differ from _obtain_? from _achieve_? 3. How does _obtain_ differ from _procure_?
EXAMPLES.
The heights by great men ---- and kept Were not ---- by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might ---- By fearing to attempt.
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ATTITUDE (page 65).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _position_ as regards the human body differ from _attitude_, _posture_, or _pose_? 2. Do the three latter words apply to the living or the dead? 3. What is the distinctive sense of _attitude_? Is it conscious or unconscious? 4. How does _posture_ differ from _attitude_? 5. What is the distinctive sense of _pose_? How does it differ from, and how does it agree with _attitude_ and _posture_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- assumed indicated great indignation because of the insult implied.
The ---- was graceful and pleasing.
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ATTRIBUTE, _v._ (page 65).
QUESTIONS.
1. What suggestion is often involved in _attribute_? 2. How does _attribute_ differ from _refer_ and _ascribe_? 3. Is _charge_ (in this connection) used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
---- ye greatness unto our God.
He ---- unworthy motives which proved a groundless charge.
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ATTRIBUTE, _n._ (page 66).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation and the inherent meaning of _quality_? 2. What is an _attribute_? 3. Which of the above words expresses what necessarily belongs to the subject of which it is said to be an _attribute_ or _quality_? 4. What is the derivation and distinctive sense of _property_? 5. How does _property_ ordinarily differ from _quality_? 6. In what usage do _property_ and _quality_ become exact synonyms, and how are _properties_ then distinguished?
EXAMPLES.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The ---- to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
Nothing endures but personal ----s.
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AVARICIOUS (page 68).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do _avaricious_ and _covetous_ differ from _miserly_, _niggardly_, _parsimonious_, and _penurious_? 2. Of what matters are _greedy_ and _stingy_ used? How do they differ from each other?
EXAMPLES.
I am not ---- for gold; Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
It is better to be content with such things as ye have than to become ---- and ---- in accumulating.
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AVENGE (page 69).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _avenge_? 2. How does _avenge_ differ from _revenge_? 3. Which word would be used of an act of God? 4. Is _retaliate_ used in the sense of _avenge_ or of _revenge_?
EXAMPLES.
O, that the vain remorse, which must chastise Crimes done, had but as loud a voice to warn As its keen sting is mortal to ----.
I lost mine eye laying the prize aboard, And therefore to ---- it, shalt thou die.
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AVOW (page 69).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which words of this group refer exclusively to one's own knowledge or action? 2. What is the distinctive sense of _aver_? of _avouch_? of _avow_? 3. How do _avouch_ and _avow_ differ from _aver_ in construction? 4. Is _avow_ used in a good or a bad sense? What does it imply of others' probable feeling or action? 5. How does _avow_ compare with _confess_?
EXAMPLES.
And, but herself, ---- no parallel.
The child ---- his fault and was pardoned by his parent.
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AWFUL (page 70).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what matters should _awful_ properly be restricted? 2. Is _awful_ always interchangeable with _alarming_ or _terrible_? with _disagreeable_ or _annoying_?
EXAMPLES.
Then must it be an ---- thing to die.
The silent falling of the snow is to me one of the most ---- things in nature.
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AWKWARD (page 70).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation and original meaning of _awkward_? of _clumsy_? 2. To what, therefore, does _awkward_ primarily refer? and to what _clumsy_? 3. Is a draft-horse distinctively _awkward_ or _clumsy_? 4. Give some metaphorical uses of _awkward_.
EXAMPLES.
Though he was ----, he was kindly.
The apprentice was not only ----, but ----, and had to be taught over and over again the same methods.
The young girl stood in a ---- way, looking in at the showy shop-windows.
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AXIOM (page 71).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what do _axiom_ and _truism_ agree? 2. In what do they differ? 3. How do they compare in interest and utility?
EXAMPLES.
It is almost an ---- that those who do most for the heathen abroad are most liberal for the heathen at home.
Trifling ----s clothed in great, swelling words of vanity.
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BABBLE (page 71).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what class do most of the words in this group belong? Why are they so called? 2. What is the special significance of _blab_ and _blurt_? How do they differ from each other in use? 3. What is _chat_? 4. How does _prattling_ differ from _chatting_? 5. In what sense is _jabber_ used? How does it compare with _chatter_?
EXAMPLES.
"The crane," I said, "may ---- of the crane, The dove may ---- of the dove."
Two women sat contentedly ----ing, one of them amusing a ----ing babe.
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BANISH (page 72).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what land may one be _banished_? From what _expatriated_ or _exiled_? 2. By whom may one be said to be _banished_? by whom _expatriated_ or _exiled_? 3. Which of these words is of widest import? Give examples of its metaphorical use.
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BANK (page 72).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _beach_? a _coast_? 2. How does each of the above words differ from _bank_? 3. What is the distinctive sense of _strand_? In what style of writing is it most commonly used? 4. What are the distinctive senses of _edge_ and _brink_?
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BANTER (page 73).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _banter_? 2. How is _badinage_ distinguished from _banter_? _raillery_ from both? 3. What is the distinctive sense of _irony_? 4. Is _irony_ kindly or the reverse? _badinage_? _banter_? 5. What words of this group are distinctly hostile? 6. Is _ridicule_ or _derision_ the stronger word? What is the distinction between the two? between _satire_ and _sarcasm_? between _chaff_, _jeering_, and _mockery_?
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BARBAROUS (page 73).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _barbarian_? 2. What is the added significance of _barbaric_? 3. How does _barbarous_ in general use differ from both the above words? 4. What special element is commonly implied in _savage_? 5. In what less opprobrious sense may _barbarous_ and _savage_ be used? Give instances.
EXAMPLES.
A multitude like which the populous North Poured never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her ---- sons Came like a deluge on the south.
Or when the gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings ---- pearl and gold.
It is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversation toward society, in any man, hath somewhat of the ---- beast.
Thou art bought and sold among those of any wit like a ---- slave.
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BARRIER (page 74).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _bar_? and what is its purpose? 2. What is a _barrier_? 3. Which word is ordinarily applied to objects of great extent? 4. Would a mountain range be termed a _bar_ or a _barrier_? 5. What distinctive name is given to a mass of sand across the mouth of a river or harbor?
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BATTLE (page 74).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the general meaning of _conflict_? 2. What is a _battle_? 3. How long may a _battle_ last? 4. On how many fields may one _battle_ be fought? 5. How does _engagement_ differ from _battle_? How does _combat_ differ? _action_? _skirmish_? _fight_?
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BEAUTIFUL (page 76).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is necessary to constitute an object or a person _beautiful_? 2. Can _beautiful_ be said of that which is harsh and ragged, however grand? 3. How is _beautiful_ related to our powers of appreciation? 4. How does _pretty_ compare with _beautiful_? _handsome_? 5. What does _fair_ denote? _comely_? _picturesque_?
EXAMPLES.
I pray thee, O God, that I may be ---- within.
A happy youth, and their old age is ---- and free.
'Twas sung, how they were ---- in their lives And in their death had not divided been.
How ---- has the day been, how bright was the sun. How lovely and joyful the course that he run. Though he rose in a mist when his race he began And there followed some droppings of rain!
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BECOMING (page 77).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _becoming_? of _decent_? of _suitable_? 2. Can that which is worthy or beautiful in itself ever be otherwise than _becoming_ or _suitable_? Give instances. 3. What is the meaning of _fit_? How does it differ from _fitting_ or _befitting_?
EXAMPLES.
A merrier man, Within the limit of ---- mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal.
Still govern thou my song, Urania, and ---- audience find, tho few.
Indeed, left nothing ---- for your purpose Untouch'd, slightly handled, in discourse.
In such a time as this, it is not ---- That every nice offense should bear his comment.
How could money be better spent than in erecting a ---- building for the greatest library in the country?
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BEGINNING (page 78).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _beginning_ derived? _commencement_? How do the two words differ in application and use? Give instances. 2. What is an _origin_? a _source_? a _rise_? 3. How are _fount_, _fountain_, and _spring_ used in the figurative sense?
EXAMPLES.
For learning is the ---- pure, Out from which all glory springs.
Truth is the ---- of every good to gods and men.
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war are great in love; The ---- of all brave acts is seated here.
It can not be that Desdemona should long continue her love to the Moor, nor he his to her: it was a violent ----, and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration.
In the ---- God created the heaven and the earth.
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BEHAVIOR (page 79).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do _behavior_ and _conduct_ differ? 2. What is the special sense of _carriage_? of _bearing_? _demeanor_? 3. What is _manner_? _manners_?
EXAMPLES.
Our thoughts and our ---- are our own.
Good ---- are made up of petty sacrifices.
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BENEVOLENCE (page 80).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original distinction between _benevolence_ and _beneficence_? 2. In what sense is _benevolence_ now most commonly used? 3. What words are commonly used for _benevolence_ in the original sense? 4. What was the original sense of _charity_? the present popular sense? 5. What of _humanity_? _generosity_? _liberality_? _philanthropy_?
EXAMPLES.
---- is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
The secrets of life are not shown except to ---- and likeness.
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BIND (page 81).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive sense of _bind_? 2. What is the special meaning of _tie_? 3. In how general a sense is _fasten_ used? 4. Which of the above three words is used in a figurative sense?
EXAMPLES.
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said; ---- up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.
Adjust our lives to loss, make friends with pain, ---- all our shattered hopes and bid them bloom again.
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BITTER (page 81).
QUESTIONS.
1. How may _acid_, _bitter_, and _acrid_ be distinguished? _pungent_? _caustic_? 2. In metaphorical use, how are _harsh_ and _bitter_ distinguished? 3. What is the special significance of _caustic_? 4. Give examples of these words in their various uses.
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BLEACH (page 82).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do _bleach_ and _blanch_ differ from _whiten_? from each other?
EXAMPLES.
You can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is ---- with fear.
We let the years go: wash them clean with tears, Leave them to ---- out in the open day.
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BLEMISH (page 82).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _blemish_? 2. How does it differ from a _flaw_ or _taint_? 3. What is a _defect_? a _fault_? 4. Which words of this group are naturally applied to reputation, and which to character?
EXAMPLES.
Every page enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little ----.
The noble Brutus Hath told you Cæsar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous ----.
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BLUFF (page 83).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what sense are _bluff_, _frank_, and _open_ used? 2. In what sense are _blunt_, _brusk_, _rough_, and _rude_ employed?
EXAMPLES.
There are to whom my satire seems too ----.
Stout once a month they march, a ---- band And ever but in times of need, at hand.
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BOUNDARY (page 84).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original sense of _boundary_? 2. How does it differ in usage from _bound_ or _bounds_? 3. In what style and sense is _bourn_ used? 4. What is the distinctive meaning of _edge_?
EXAMPLES.
So these lives ... Parted by ----s strong, but drawing nearer and nearer, Rushed together at last, and one was lost in the other.
In worst extremes, and on the perilous ---- Of battle.
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BRAVE (page 85).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _brave_ differ from _courageous_? 2. What is the special sense of _adventurous_? of _bold_? of _chivalrous_? 3. How do these words differ from _venturesome_? 4. What is especially denoted by _fearless_ and _intrepid_? 5. What does _valiant_ tell of results? 6. What ideas are combined in _heroic_?
EXAMPLES.
A ---- man is also full of faith.
Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In ---- youth we tempt the heights of Arts.
Thy danger chiefly lies in acting well; No crime's so great as ---- to excel.
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BUSINESS (page 88).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of _barter_? 2. What does _business_ add to the meaning of _barter_? 3. What is _occupation_? Is it broader than _business_? 4. What is a _vocation_? 5. What (in the strict sense) is an _avocation_? 6. What is implied in _profession_? _pursuit_? 7. What is a _transaction_? 8. How does _trade_ differ from _commerce_? 9. What is _work_? 10. What is an _art_ in the industrial sense? a _craft_?
EXAMPLES.
A man must serve his time to every ----.
We turn to dust, and all our mightiest ----s die too.
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CALCULATE (page 90).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do you distinguish between _count_ and _calculate_? _compute_, _reckon_ and _estimate_? 2. Which is used mostly with regard to future probabilities? 3. Do we use _compute_ or _estimate_ of numbers exactly known? 4. Of _compute_, _calculate_, and _estimate_, which is used with especial reference to the future?
EXAMPLES.
There were 4046 men in the district, by actual ----.
The time of the eclipse was ---- to a second.
We ask them to ---- approximately the cost of the building.
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CALL (page 91).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of _call_? 2. Do we ever apply _bellow_ and _roar_ to human sounds? 3. Can you give more than one sense of _cry_? 4. Are _shout_ and _scream_ more or less expressive than _call_? 5. Which of the words in this group are necessarily and which ordinarily applied to articulate utterance? Which rarely, if ever, so used?
EXAMPLES.
---- for the robin redbreast and the wren.
The pioneers could hear the savages ---- outside.
I ---- my servant and he came.
The captain ---- in a voice of thunder to the helmsman, "Put your helm hard aport!"
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CALM (page 91).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what classes of objects or states of mind do we apply _calm_? _collected_? _quiet_? _placid_? _serene_? _still_? _tranquil_? 2. Do the antonyms _boisterous_, _excited_, _ruffled_, _turbulent_, and _wild_, also apply to the same? 3. Can you contrast _calm_ and _quiet_? 4. How many of the preceding adjectives can be applied to water? 5. How does _composed_ differ from _calm_?
EXAMPLES.
The possession of a ---- conscience is an estimable blessing.
The water is said to be always ---- in the ocean depths.
---- on the listening ear of night Fall heaven's melodious strains.
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CANCEL (page 92).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference in method involved in the verbs _cancel_, _efface_, _erase_, _expunge_, and _obliterate_? 2. Which suggest the most complete removal of all trace of a writing? 3. How do the figurative uses of these words compare with the literal? 4. Is it possible to _obliterate_ or _efface_ that which has been previously _canceled_ or _erased_?
EXAMPLES.
It is practically impossible to clean a postage-stamp that has been properly ---- so that it can be used again.
With the aid of a sharp penknife the blot was quickly ----.
By lapse of time and elemental action, the inscription had become completely ----.
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CANDID (page 93).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what class of things do we apply _aboveboard_? _candid_? _fair_? _frank_? _honest_? _sincere_? _transparent_? 2. Can you state the similarity between _artless_, _guileless_, _naive_, _simple_, and _unsophisticated_? How do they differ as a class from the words above referred to? 3. How does it happen that "To be frank," or "To be candid" often precedes the utterance of something disagreeable?
EXAMPLES.
The sophistry was so ---- as to disgust the assembly.
A. T. Stewart relied on ---- dealing as the secret of mercantile success.
An ---- man will not steal or defraud.
---- she seems with artful care Affecting to be unaffected.
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CARE (page 94).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the special difference between _care_ and _anxiety_? 2. Wherein does _care_ differ from _caution_? _solicitude_ from _anxiety_? _watchfulness_ from _wariness_? 3. Can you give some of the senses of _care_? 4. Is _concern_ as strong a term as _anxiety_? 5. What is _circumspection_? _precaution_? _heed_?
EXAMPLES.
Take her up tenderly, lift her with ----.
A military commander should have as much ---- as bravery.
The invaders fancied themselves so secure against attack that they had not taken the ---- to station sentinels.
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CARICATURE (page 95).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of _caricature_? 2. What is the special difference between _parody_ and _travesty_? between both and _burlesque_? 3. To what is _caricature_ mostly confined? 4. How do _mimicry_ and _imitation_ differ? 5. Is an _extravaganza_ an _exaggeration_?
EXAMPLES.
The eagle nose of the general was magnified in every artist's ----.
His laughable reproduction of the great actor's vagaries was a clever bit of ----.
If it be not lying to say that a fox's tail is four feet long, it is certainly a huge ----.
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CARRY (page 96).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what sort of objects do we apply _bear_? _carry_? _move_? _take_? 2. What kinds of force or power do we indicate by _convey_, _lift_, _transmit_, and _transport_? 3. What is the distinction between _bring_ and _carry_? between _carry_ and _bear_? 4. What does _lift_ mean? 5. Can you give some figurative uses of _carry_?
EXAMPLES.
The strong man can ---- 1,000 pounds with apparent ease.
Napoleon always endeavored to ---- the war into the enemy's territory.
It was found necessary to ---- the coal overland for a distance of 500 miles.
My punishment is greater than I can ----.
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CATASTROPHE (page 97).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _catastrophe_ or _cataclysm_? 2. Is a _catastrophe_ also necessarily a _calamity_ or a _disaster_? 3. Which word has the broader meaning, _disaster_ or _calamity_? 4. Does _misfortune_ suggest as serious a condition as any of the foregoing? 5. How does a _mishap_ compare with a _catastrophe_, a _calamity_, or a _disaster_? 6. Give some chief antonyms of the above.
EXAMPLES.
War and pestilence are properly ----, while the loss of a battle may be a ----, but not a ----.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one ----.
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's ---- in his morning face.
The failure of the crops of two successive years proved an irreparable ---- to the emigrants.
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CAUSE (page 98).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the central distinction between _antecedent_ and _cause_? 2. How are the words _cause_, _condition_, and _occasion_ illustrated by the fall of an avalanche? 3. And the antonyms _consequence_? _effect_? _outgrowth_? _result_? 4. What are _causality_ and _causation_? 5. How are _origin_ and _source_ related to _cause_?
EXAMPLES.
Where there is an effect there must be also a ----.
It is necessary to know something of the ---- of a man before we can safely trust him.
The ---- of the river was found to be a small lake among the hills.
What was given as the ---- of the quarrel was really but the ----.
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CHAGRIN (page 100).
QUESTIONS.
1. What feelings are combined in _chagrin_? 2. How do you distinguish between _chagrin_, _disappointment_, _humiliation_, _mortification_, and _shame_? 3. Which involves a sense of having done wrong?
EXAMPLES.
The king's ---- at the limitations imposed upon him was painfully manifest.
He is not wholly lost who yet can blush from ----.
Hope tells a flattering tale, Delusive, vain, and hollow. Ah! let not hope prevail, Lest ---- follow.
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CHANGE (page 100).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinction between _change_ and _exchange_? Are they ever used as equivalent, and how? 2. Can you distinguish between _modify_ and _qualify_?
EXAMPLES.
The tailor offered to ---- the armholes of the coat.
We requested the pianist to ---- his music by introducing a few popular tunes.
We often fail to recognize the actor who ---- his costume between the acts.
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CHARACTER (page 102).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do you distinguish between _character_ and _reputation_? _constitution_ and _disposition_? 2. Is _nature_ a broader word than any of the preceding? 3. If so, why?
EXAMPLES.
The philanthropist's ---- for charity is often a great source of annoyance to him.
Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for 'tis their ---- to.
Misfortune may cause the loss of friends and reputation, yet if the man has not yielded to wrong, his ---- is superior to loss or change.
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CHOOSE (page 104).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the shades of difference between _choose_, _cull_, _elect_, _pick_, _prefer_, and _select_? 2. Also between the antonyms _cast away_, _decline_, _dismiss_, _refuse_, _repudiate_? 3. Does _select_ imply more care or judgment than _choose_?
EXAMPLES.
The prettiest flowers had all been ----.
Jacob was ---- to Esau, tho he was the younger.
When a man deliberately ---- to do wrong, there is little hope for him.
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CIRCUMSTANCE (page 105).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what classes of things do we apply _accompaniment_? _concomitant_? _circumstance_? _event_? _fact_? _incident_? _occurrence_? _situation_? 2. Can you give some instances of the use of _circumstance_? 3. Is it a word of broader meaning than _incident_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- that there had been a fire was proved by the smoke-blackened walls.
Extreme provocation may be a mitigating ---- in a case of homicide.
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CLASS (page 106).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does a _class_ differ from a _caste_? 2. In what connection is _rank_ used? _order_? 3. What is a _coterie_? How does it differ from a _clique_?
EXAMPLES.
An ---- was formed for the relief of the poor and needy of the city.
A select ---- met at the residence of one of the leading men of the city.
There is a struggle of the masses against the ----.
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CLEAR (page 107).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _clear_ originally signify? 2. How does _clear_ differ from _transparent_ as regards a substance that may be a medium of vision? 3. With what meaning is _clear_ used of an object apprehended by the senses, as an object of sight or hearing? 4. What does _distinct_ signify? 5. What is _plain_? 6. What special sense does this word always retain? How does _transparent_ differ from _translucent_? 7. What do _lucid_ and _pellucid_ signify? 8. What is the special force of _limpid_?
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CLEVER (page 109).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _clever_ as used in England? 2. What was the early New England usage? 3. What is to be said of the use of _smart_ and _sharp_? 4. What other words of this group are preferable to _clever_ in many of its uses?
EXAMPLES.
His brief experience in the department had made him very ---- in the work now assigned him.
She was especially ---- in song.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be ----; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make life, death, and the vast forever One grand, sweet song.
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COMPANY (page 110).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _company_ derived? What is its primary meaning? 2. For what are those associated who constitute a _company_? Is their association temporary or permanent? 3. What is the difference between _assemblage_ and _assembly_? 4. What is a _conclave_? a _convocation_? a _convention_? 5. What are the characteristics of a _group_? 6. To what use is _congregation_ restricted? How does _meeting_ agree with and differ from it?
EXAMPLES.
Far from the madding ----'s ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray.
The room contained a large ---- of miscellaneous objects.
A fellow that makes no figure in ----.
A great ---- had met, but without organization or officers.
If ye inquire anything concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a lawful ----.
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COMPEL (page 111).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _compel_? 2. What does _force_ imply? 3. What is the especial significance of _coerce_? 4. What does _constrain_ imply? In what favorable sense is it used?
EXAMPLES.
Even if we were not willing, they possessed the power of ---- us to do justice.
Employers may ---- their employees into voting as they demand, but for the secret ballot.
These considerations ---- us to aid them to the utmost of our power.
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COMPLAIN (page 112).
QUESTIONS.
1. By what is _complaining_ prompted? _murmuring_? _repining_? 2. Which finds outward expression, and which is limited to the mental act? 3. To whom does one _complain_, in the formal sense of the word? 4. With whom does one _remonstrate_?
EXAMPLES.
It is not pleasant to live with one who is constantly ----ing.
The dog gave a low ---- which frightened the tramp away.
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COMPLEX (page 112).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _complex_ differ from _compound_? from _composite_? 2. What is _heterogeneous_? _conglomerate_? 3. How does _complicated_ differ from _intricate_? from _involved_?
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CONSCIOUS (page 116).
QUESTIONS.
1. Of what things is one _aware_? of what is he _conscious_? 2. How does _sensible_ compare with the above-mentioned words? 3. What does _sensible_ indicate regarding the emotions, that would not be expressed by _conscious_?
EXAMPLES.
To be ---- that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
They are now ---- it would have been better to resist the first temptation.
He was ---- of a stealthy step and a bulk dimly visible through the darkness.
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CONSEQUENCE (page 116).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _consequence_ differ from _effect_? both from _result_? 2. How do _result_ and _issue_ compare? 3. In what sense is _consequent_ used?
* * * * *
CONTAGION (page 117).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what is _contagion_ now limited by the best medical usage? 2. To what is the term _infection_ applied?
EXAMPLES.
During the plague in London persons walked in the middle of the streets for fear of the ---- from the houses.
The mob thinks by ---- for the most part, catching an opinion like a cold.
No pestilence is so much to be dreaded as the ---- of bad example.
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CONTINUAL (page 117).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _continuous_ differ from _continual_? _incessant_ from _ceaseless_? Give examples.
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CONTRAST (page 118).
QUESTIONS.
1. How is _contrast_ related to _compare_? 2. What are the special senses of _differentiate_, _discriminate_ and _distinguish_?
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CONVERSATION (page 118).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential meaning of _conversation_? 2. How does _conversation_ differ from _talk_? 3. How is _discourse_ related to _conversation_? 4. What are the special senses of _dialogue_ and _colloquy_?
EXAMPLES.
There can be no ---- with a great genius, who does all the ----ing.
Nor wanted sweet ----, the banquet of the mind.
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CONVEY (page 119).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what do _convey_, _transmit_, and _transport_ agree? What is the distinctive sense of _convey_? 2. To what class of objects does _transport_ refer? 3. To what class of objects do _transfer_, _transmit_, and _convey_ apply? 4. Which is the predominant sense of the latter words?
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CRIMINAL (page 120).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of _criminal_? How does it differ from _illegal_ or _unlawful_? 2. What is _felonious_? _flagitious_? 3. What is the primary meaning of _iniquitous_? 4. Is an _iniquitous_ act necessarily _criminal_?
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DANGER (page 121).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of _danger_? 2. Does _danger_ or _peril_ suggest the more immediate evil? 3. How are _jeopardy_ and _risk_ distinguished from _danger_ and _peril_?
EXAMPLES.
Delay always breeds ----.
The careful rider avoids running ----.
Stir, at your ----!
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DECAY (page 122).
QUESTIONS.
1. What sort of things _decay_? _putrefy_? _rot_? 2. What is the essential difference between _decay_ and _decompose_?
EXAMPLES.
The flowers wither, the tree's trunk ----.
The water was ---- by the electric current.
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DECEPTION (page 123).
QUESTIONS.
1. How is _deceit_ distinguished from _deception_? from _guile_? _fraud_? _lying_? _hypocrisy_? 2. Do all of these apply to conduct as well as to speech? 3. Is _deception_ ever innocent? 4. Have _craft_ and _cunning_ always a moral element? 5. How is _dissimulation_ distinguished from _duplicity_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of his conduct was patent to all.
It was a matter of self-----.
The judge decided it to be a case of ----.
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DEFINITION (page 124).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which is the more exact, a _definition_ or a _description_? 2. What must a _definition_ include, and what must it exclude? 3. What must a _description_ include? 4. In what respect has _interpretation_ a wider meaning than _translation_? 5. How does an _explanation_ compare with an _exposition_?
EXAMPLES.
A prompt ---- of the difficulty prevented a quarrel.
The ---- of scenery was admirable.
The seer gave an ---- of the dream.
Many a controversy may be instantly ended by a clear ---- of terms.
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DELIBERATE (page 125).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the chief distinctions between _deliberate_? _consult_? _consider_? _meditate_? _reflect_? 2. Do large gatherings of people _consult_, or _meditate_, or _deliberate_? 3. Do we _reflect_ on things past or things to come? 4. How many persons are necessarily implied in _consult_, _confer_, and _debate_ as commonly used? in _deliberate_, _consider_, _ponder_, _reflect_? in _meditate_? 5. What idea of time is implied in _deliberate_?
EXAMPLES.
The matter was carefully ---- in all its bearings.
The legislature ---- for several days.
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DELUSION (page 127).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential difference between _illusion_ and _delusion_? How does _hallucination_ differ from both? 2. Which word is used especially of objects of sight?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of the sick are sometimes pitiful.
In the soft light the ---- was complete.
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DEMONSTRATION (page 127).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what kind of reasoning does _demonstration_ in the strict sense apply? 2. What is _evidence_? _proof_? 3. Which is the stronger term? 4. Which is the more comprehensive?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of the witness was so complete that no further ---- was required.
A mathematical ---- must be final and conclusive.
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DESIGN (page 128).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of _design_? 2. What element is prominent in _intention_? _purpose_? _plan_? 3. Does _purpose_ suggest more power to execute than _design_? 4. How does _intent_ specifically differ from _purpose_? Which term do we use with reference to the Divine Being?
EXAMPLES.
The architect's ---- involved much detail.
Hell is paved with good ----.
It is the ---- of the voter that decides how his ballot shall be counted.
The ---- of the Almighty can not be thwarted.
The adaption of means to ends in nature clearly indicates a ----, and so proves a ----er.
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DESPAIR (page 129).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what order might _despair_, _desperation_, _discouragement_, and _hopelessness_ follow, each as the result of the previous condition? 2. How does _despondency_ especially differ from _despair_?
EXAMPLES.
The utter ---- of their condition was apparent.
In weak ---- he abandoned all endeavor.
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DEXTERITY (page 129).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _adroitness_ derived? From what _dexterity_? How might each be rendered? 2. How does _adroitness_ differ in use from _dexterity_? 3. From what is _aptitude_ derived, and what does it signify? 4. How does _skill_ differ from _dexterity_? Which can and which can not be communicated?
EXAMPLES.
He had a natural ---- for scientific investigation, and by long practise gained an inimitable ---- of manipulation.
His ---- in debate enabled him to evade or parry arguments or attacks which he could not answer.
The ---- of the best trained workman can not equal the precision of a machine.
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DICTION (page 130).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which is the more comprehensive word, _diction_, _language_, or _phraseology_? 2. What is the true meaning of _verbiage_? Should it ever be used as the equivalent of _language_ or _diction_? 3. What is _style_? How does it compare with _diction_ or _language_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of the discourse was plain and emphatic.
The ---- of a written contract should be such as to prevent misunderstandings.
The poetic ---- of Milton is so exquisitely perfect that another word can scarcely ever be substituted for the one he has chosen without marring the line.
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DIFFERENCE (page 131).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which pertain mostly to realities, and which are matters of judgment--_difference_, _disparity_, _distinction_, or _inconsistency_? 2. What do we mean by "a _distinction_ without a _difference_"?
EXAMPLES.
The proper ---- should be carefully observed in the use of "shall" and "will."
The ---- between black and white is self-evident.
The ---- of our representatives' conduct with their promises is unpardonable.
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DISCERN (page 133).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what sort of objects do we apply _behold_, _discern_, _distinguish_, _observe_, and _see_? 2. What do _behold_ and _distinguish_ suggest in addition to _seeing_?
EXAMPLES.
With the aid of a great telescope we may ---- what stars are double.
---- the upright man.
Let us minutely ---- the color of the goods.
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DISCOVER (page 133).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of _detect_? _discover_? _invent_? 2. How do _discover_ and _invent_ differ? 3. Is _detect_ often used in a favorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
An experienced policeman acquires wonderful skill in ----ing criminals.
Newton ---- the law of gravitation.
To ---- a machine, one must first understand the laws of mechanics.
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DISEASE (page 134).
QUESTIONS.
1. What was the early and general meaning of _sick_ and _sickness_ in English? 2. How long did that usage prevail? 3. What is the present restriction upon the use of these words in England? What words are there commonly substituted? 4. What is the prevalent usage in the United States?
EXAMPLES.
---- spread in the camp and proved deadlier than the sword.
The ---- was found to be contagious.
He is just recovering from a slight ----.
It is not good manners to talk of one's ----s.
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DO (page 135).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the most comprehensive word of this group? 2. In what sense are _finish_ and _complete_ used, and how are they discriminated from each other? 3. How do we discriminate between _fulfil_, _realize_, _effect_, and _execute_? _perform_ and _accomplish_? _accomplish_ and _complete_?
EXAMPLES.
A duty has been ----, a work of gratitude and affection has been ----.
It is wonderful how much can be ---- by steady, plodding industry without brilliant talents.
The work is not only grand in design but it is ---- with the most exquisite delicacy in every detail.
It is the duty of the legislators to make laws, of the magistrates to ---- them.
Every one should labor to ---- his duties faithfully, and ---- the just expectations of those who have committed to him any trust.
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DOCTRINE (page 136).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what matters do we apply the word _creed_? _doctrine_? _dogma_? _principle_? 2. Which is the more inclusive word? 3. Is _dogma_ used favorably or unfavorably?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- rests either upon the authority of the Scriptures, or upon a decision of the Church.
A man may have upright ----s even while he disregards commonly received ----s.
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DOUBT, _v._ (page 137).
QUESTIONS.
1. Do we apply _doubt_, _distrust_, _surmise_, and _suspect_ mostly to persons and things, or to motives and intentions? 2. Is _mistrust_ used of persons or of things? 3. Is it used, in a favorable or an unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
We do not ---- that the earth moves around the sun.
Nearly every law of nature was by man first ----, then proved to be true.
I ---- my own heart.
I ---- that man from the outset.
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DOUBT, _n._ (page 138).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what class of objects do we apply _disbelief_? _doubt_? _hesitation_? _misgiving_? 2. Which of these words most commonly implies an unfavorable meaning? 3. What meaning has _skepticism_ as applied to religious matters?
EXAMPLES.
We feel no ---- in giving our approval.
The jury had ----s of his guilt.
We did all we could to further the enterprise, but still had our ----s as to the outcome.
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DUPLICATE (page 141).
QUESTIONS.
1. Can you give the distinction between a _copy_ and a _duplicate_? a _facsimile_, and an _imitation_? 2. What sort of a _copy_ is a _transcript_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of an organ by the violinist was perfect.
This key is a ----, and will open the lock.
The signature was merely a printed ----.
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DUTY (page 142).
QUESTIONS.
1. Do we use _duty_ and _right_ of civil things? or _business_ and _obligation_ of moral things? 2. Does _responsibility_ imply connection with any other person or thing?
EXAMPLES.
I go because it is my ----.
We recognize a ---- for the good conduct of our own children, but do we not also rest under some ---- to society to exercise a good influence over the children of others?
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EAGER (page 142).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinction between _eager_ and _earnest_ in the nature of the feeling implied? in the objects toward which it is directed? 2. How does _anxious_ in this acceptation differ from both _eager_ and _earnest_?
EXAMPLES.
Hark! the shrill trumpet sounds to horse! away! My soul's in arms, and ---- for the fray.
I am in ----. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard!
I am ---- to hear of your welfare, and of the prospects of the enterprise.
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EASE (page 143).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _ease_ denote, in the sense here considered? Does it apply to action or condition? 2. Is _facility_ active or passive? _readiness_? 3. What does _ease_ imply, and to what may it be limited? 4. What does _facility_ imply? _readiness_? 5. To what is _expertness_ limited?
EXAMPLES.
He plays the violin with great ----, and delights an audience.
Whatever he did was done with so much ----, In him alone 'twas natural to please.
It is often said with equal truth that we ought to take advantage of the ---- which children possess of learning.
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EDUCATION (page 143).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of _education_? _instruction_? _teaching_? 2. How is _instruction_ or _teaching_ related to _education_? 3. How does _training_ differ from _teaching_? 4. What is _discipline_? _tuition_? 5. What are _breeding_ and _nurture_, and how do they differ from each other? 6. How are _knowledge_ and _learning_ related to _education_?
EXAMPLES.
The true purpose of ---- is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
By ----, we do learn ourselves to know And what to man, and what to God we owe.
---- maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
For natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by ----; and ----s themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
A branch of ---- is often put to an improper use, for fear of its being idle.
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EFFRONTERY (page 144).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _audacity_? _hardihood_? 2. What special element does _effrontery_ add to the meaning of _audacity_ and _hardihood_? 3. What is _impudence_? _shamelessness_? 4. How does _effrontery_ compare with these words? 5. What is _boldness_? Is it used in a favorable or an unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
When they saw the ---- of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they marvelled.
I ne'er heard yet That any of these bolder vices wanted Less ---- to gainsay what they did, Than to perform it first.
I am not a little surprised at the easy ---- with which political gentlemen in and out of Congress take it upon them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
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EGOTISM (page 145).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _egoism_ and how does it differ from _egotism_? 2. What is _self-assertion_? _self-conceit_? 3. Does _conceit_ differ from _self-conceit_, and how? 4. What is _self-confidence_? Is it worthy or unworthy? 5. Is _self-assertion_ ever a duty? _self-conceit_? 6. What is _vanity_? How does it differ from _self-confidence_? from _pride_? 7. What is _self-esteem_? How does it differ from _self-conceit_? from _self-confidence_?
EXAMPLES.
---- may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
---- is as ill at ease under indifference, as tenderness is under the love which it can not return.
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EMBLEM (page 146).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _emblem_ derived? What did it originally signify? 2. What is the derivation and primary meaning of _symbol_? 3. How do the two words compare as now used? 4. How does a _sign_ suggest something other than itself? 5. Can the same thing be both an _emblem_ and a _symbol_? a _sign_ and a _symbol_? 6. What is a _token_? a _figure_? an _image_? a _type_?
EXAMPLES.
Rose of the desert, thou art to me An ---- of stainless purity, ---- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright.
All things are ----s: the external shows Of nature have their ---- in the mind As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.
Moses, as Israel's deliverer, was a ---- of Christ.
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EMIGRATE (page 147).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of _migrate_? What is its application? 2. What do _emigrate_ and _immigrate_ signify? To what do they apply? Can the two words be used of the same person and the same act? How?
EXAMPLES.
The ship was crowded with ---- mostly from Germany.
---- are pouring into the United States often at the rate of half a million a year.
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EMPLOY (page 147).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the distinctive senses of _employ_ and _use_? Give instances. 2. What does _use_ often imply as to materials _used_? 3. How does _hire_ compare with _employ_?
EXAMPLES.
The young man had been ---- by the firm for several months and had proved faithful in every respect.
The church was then ready to ---- a pastor.
What one has, one ought to ----: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
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END, _v._ (page 148).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _end_, and what reference does _end_ have to intention or expectation? 2. What do _close_, _complete_, _conclude_, and _finish_ signify as to expectation or appropriateness? Give instances. 3. What specially distinctive sense has _finish_? 4. Does _terminate_ refer to reaching an arbitrary or an appropriate end? 5. What does _stop_ signify?
EXAMPLES.
The life was suddenly ----.
The train ---- long enough for the passengers to get off, then whirled on.
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END, _n._ (page 148).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the _end_? 2. What is the distinctive meaning of _extremity_? 3. How does _extremity_ compare with _end_? 4. What reference is implied in _extremity_? 5. What is the meaning of _tip_? _point_? How does _extremity_ differ in use from the two latter words? 6. What is a _terminus_? What specific meaning has the word in modern travel? 7. What is the meaning of _termination_, and of what is it chiefly used? _expiration_? _limit_?
EXAMPLES.
Seeing that death, a necessary ---- will come when it will come.
All rejoice at the successful ---- of the vast undertaking.
He that endureth to the ---- shall be saved.
Do not turn back when you are just at the ----.
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ENDEAVOR, _v._ (page 149).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _attempt_? to _endeavor_? To what sort of exertion does _endeavor_ especially apply? 2. How does _essay_ differ from _attempt_ and _endeavor_ in its view of the results of the action? 3. What is implied in _undertake_? Give an instance. 4. What does _strive_ suggest? 5. How does _try_ compare with the other words of the group?
EXAMPLES.
---- first thyself, and after call on God, For to the worker God himself lends aid.
---- the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
---- to enter in at the strait gate.
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ENDEAVOR, _n._ (page 150).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _effort_? an _exertion_? Which includes the other? 2. How does _attempt_ differ from _effort_? 3. What is a _struggle_? 4. What is an _essay_, and for what purpose is it made? 5. What is an _endeavor_, and how is it distinguished from _effort_? from _attempt_?
EXAMPLES.
Youth is a blunder; manhood a ----; old age a regret.
So vast an ---- required more capital than he could command at that time. Others combining with him enabled him to succeed with it.
After a few spasmodic ----, he abandoned all ---- at improvement.
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ENDURE (page 150).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _bear_ as applied to care, pain, grief, and the like? 2. What does _endure_ add to the meaning of _bear_? 3. How do _allow_ and _permit_ compare with the words just mentioned? 4. How do _put up with_ and _tolerate_ compare with _allow_ and _permit_? 5. What is the special sense of _afford_? How does it come into connection with the words of this group? 6. What is the sense of _brook_? 7. Of what words does _abide_ combine the meanings?
EXAMPLES.
Charity ---- long and is kind; charity ---- all things.
I follow thee, safe guide, the path Thou lead'st me, and to the hand of heav'n ----.
For there was never yet philosopher That could ---- the toothache patiently.
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ENEMY (page 151).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _enemy_? an _adversary_? 2. What distinction is there between the two words as to the purpose implied? 3. What is an _antagonist_? an _opponent_? a _competitor_? a _rival_? 4. How does _foe_ compare with _enemy_?
EXAMPLES.
He makes no friend who never made a ----.
This friendship that possesses the whole soul, ... can admit of no ----.
Mountains interposed Make ---- of nations who had else, Like kindred drops been molded into one.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our ---- is our helper.
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ENMITY (page 152).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _enmity_? 2. How does _animosity_ differ from _enmity_? 3. What is _hostility_? What is meant by _hostilities_ between nations? 4. What is _bitterness_? _acrimony_? 5. How does _antagonism_ compare with the words above mentioned?
EXAMPLES.
Let all ----, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.
But their ----, tho smothered for a while, burnt with redoubled violence.
The carnal mind is ---- against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
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ENTERTAIN (page 152).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _entertain_ mentally? to _amuse_? 2. What is the distinctive sense of _divert_? 3. Can one be _amused_ or _entertained_ who is not _diverted_? 4. What is it to _recreate_? to _beguile_?
EXAMPLES.
Books can not always ----, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And ---- the harmless day With a religious book or friend.
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ENTERTAINMENT (page 153).
QUESTIONS.
1. What do _entertainment_ and _recreation_ imply? How, accordingly, do they rank among the lighter matters of life? 2. How do _amusement_ and _pastime_ differ? 3. On what plane are _sports_? How do they compare with _entertainment_ and _recreation_? 4. How do _amusement_ and _enjoyment_ compare?
EXAMPLES.
At Christmas play, and make good ----, For Christmas comes but once a year.
It is as ---- to fools to do mischief.
No true heart can find ---- in another's pain or grief.
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave ---- to the spectators.
As Tammie glowered, amazed and curious, The mirth and ---- grew fast and furious.
And so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent ---- than angling.
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ENTHUSIASM (page 153).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what sense was _enthusiasm_ formerly used? 2. What is now its prevalent and controlling meaning? 3. How does _zeal_ differ from _enthusiasm_?
EXAMPLES.
An ardent ---- leads to great results in exposing certain evils.
His ---- was contagious and they rushed into battle.
The precept had its use; it could make men feel it right to be humane, and desire to be so, but it could never inspire them with an ---- of humanity.
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ENTRANCE (page 154).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _entrance_ refer? 2. What do _admittance_ and _admission_ add to the meaning of _entrance_? 3. To what does _admittance_ refer? To what additional matters does _admission_ refer? Illustrate. 4. What is the figurative use of _entrance_?
EXAMPLES.
---- was obtained by a side-door, and a good position secured to the crowded hall.
No ---- except on business.
He was never so engrossed with cares of state that the needy could not have ---- to him.
However carefully church-membership may be guarded, unworthy members will sometimes gain ----.
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ENVIOUS (page 155).
QUESTIONS.
1. What do we mean when we say that a person is _envious_? 2. What is the difference between _envious_ and _jealous_? 3. Is an _envious_ spirit ever good? 4. Is _jealous_ capable of being used in a good sense? 5. In what sense is _suspicious_ used?
EXAMPLES.
Neither be thou ---- against the workers of iniquity.
---- in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel.
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EQUIVOCAL (page 155).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation and the original signification of _equivocal_? of _ambiguous_? How do the two words compare in present use? 2. What is the meaning of _enigmatical_? 3. How do _doubtful_ and _dubious_ compare? 4. In what sense is _questionable_ used? _suspicious_?
EXAMPLES.
These sentences, to sugar or to gall, Being strong on both sides, are ----.
An ---- statement may result from the thoughtless use of a single word that is capable of more than one meaning.
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ESTEEM, _n._ (page 157).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference between _esteem_ and _estimate_? 2. Is _esteem_ now used of concrete valuation? 3. What is its chief present use? 4. What is its meaning in popular use as said of persons?
EXAMPLES.
They please, are pleas'd; they give to get ----, Till seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
The loss of conscience or honor is one that can not be ----.
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ETERNAL (page 157).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _eternal_ in the fullest sense? 2. To what being, in that sense, may it be applied? 3. In what does _everlasting_ fall short of the meaning of _eternal_? 4. How does _endless_ agree with and differ from _everlasting_? 5. In what inferior senses are _everlasting_ and _interminable_ used? 6. Is _eternal_, in good speech or writing, ever brought down to such inferior use?
EXAMPLES.
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again, The ---- years of God are hers.
Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from ----.
It were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with ---- motion.
Here comes the lady! Oh, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the ---- flint.
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EVENT (page 158).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do _event_ and _incident_ differ etymologically? 2. Which is the greater and more important? Give examples. 3. How does _circumstance_ compare with _incident_? 4. What is the primary meaning of _occurrence_? 5. What is an _episode_? 6. How does _event_ differ from _end_? 7. What meaning does _event_ often have when applied to the future?
EXAMPLES.
Fate shall yield To fickle ----, and Chaos judge the strife.
Men are the sport of ---- when The ---- seem the sport of men.
Coming ---- cast their shadows before.
Where an equal poise of hope and fear Does arbitrate the ----, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion.
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EVERY (page 158).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what are _all_ and _both_ alike? _any_, _each_, and _every_? 2. How does _any_ differ from _each_ and _every_? 3. How do _each_ and _every_ differ from _all_? 4. How does _each_ compare with _every_? with _both_? 5. What does _either_ properly denote? In what other sense is it often used? What is the objection to the latter use?
EXAMPLES.
---- person in the room arose to his feet.
A free pardon was offered to ---- who should instantly lay down their arms.
As the garrison marched out, the victorious troops stood in arms on ---- side of the way.
In order to keep his secret inviolate, he revealed it privately to ---- of his most intimate friends.
---- person giving such information shall be duly rewarded.
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EVIDENT (page 159).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do _apparent_ and _evident_ compare? 2. What is the special sense of _manifest_? How does it compare in strength with _evident_? 3. What is the sense of _obvious_? 4. How wide is the range of _visible_? 5. How does _discernible_ compare with _visible_? What does it imply as to the observer's action? 6. What is the sense of _palpable_ and _tangible_? _conspicuous_?
EXAMPLES.
A paradox is a real truth in the guise of an ---- absurdity or contradiction.
The prime minister was ---- by his absence.
The statement is a ---- absurdity.
On a comparison of the two works the plagiarism was ----.
Yet from those flames No light; but only darkness ----.
These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, ----.
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EXAMPLE (page 160).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the etymological meaning of _example_? 2. What two contradictory meanings does _example_ derive from this primary sense? 3. How does _example_ differ from _sample_? 4. How does it compare with _model_? with _pattern_? 5. How does _exemplar_ agree with, and differ from _example_? 6. What is an _exemplification_? an _ensample_?
EXAMPLES.
I bid him look into the lives of men as tho himself a mirror, and from others to take an ---- for himself.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops and the ---- which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow.
History is an ---- of philosophy.
The commander was resolved to make an ---- to deter others from the like offense.
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EXCESS (page 160).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _excess_? Is it used in the favorable or unfavorable sense? 2. What is _extravagance_? 3. What is _exorbitance_? 4. What kind of _excess_ do _overplus_ and _superabundance_ denote? _lavishness_ and _profusion_? 5. Is _surplus_ used in the favorable or unfavorable sense? 6. To what do _redundance_ and _redundancy_ chiefly refer? 7. What words are used as synonyms of _excess_ in the moral sense?
EXAMPLES.
Saving requires self-denial, and ---- is the death of self-denial.
Where there is great ---- there usually follows corresponding ----.
---- of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Haste brings ----, and ---- brings want.
The ---- of the demand caused unfeigned surprise.
More of the present woes of the world are due to ---- than to any other single cause.
---- of language often weakens the impression of what would be impressive in sober statement.
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EXECUTE (page 161).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _execute_? of _administer_? of _enforce_? 2. How are the words applied in special cases? Give instances. 3. What secondary meaning has _administer_?
EXAMPLES.
It is the place of the civil magistrate to ---- the laws.
The pasha gave a signal and three attendants seized the culprit, and promptly ---- the bastinado.
I can not illustrate a moral duty without at the same time ----ing a precept of our religion.
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EXERCISE (page 162).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _exercise_ apart from all qualifying words? 2. How does _exercise_ in that sense differ from _exertion_? 3. How may _exercise_ be brought up to the full meaning of _exertion_? 4. What is _practise_? How does it differ from _exercise_? 5. How is _practise_ discriminated from such theory or profession? 6. What is _drill_?
EXAMPLES.
Regular ---- tends to keep body and mind in the best working order.
---- in time becomes second nature.
By constant ---- the most difficult feats may be done with no apparent ----.
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EXPENSE (page 162).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _cost_? _expense_? 2. How are these words now commonly differentiated? 3. What is the meaning of _outlay_? of _outgo_?
EXAMPLES.
Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the ----, whether he have sufficient to finish it.
The entire receipts have not equaled the ----.
When the ---- is more than the income, if the income can not be increased, it becomes an absolute necessity to reduce the ----.
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EXPLICIT (page 162).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what are _explicit_ and _express_ alike opposed? 2. How do the two words differ from each other?
EXAMPLES.
I came here at this critical juncture by the ---- order of Sir John St. Clare.
The language of the proposition was too ---- to admit of doubt.
Now the Spirit speaketh ----ly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith.
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EXTEMPORANEOUS (page 163).
QUESTIONS.
1. What did _extemporaneous_ originally mean? 2. What has it now come to signify in common use? 3. What is the original meaning of _impromptu_? The present meaning? 4. How does the _impromptu_ remark often differ from the _extemporaneous_? 5. How does _unpremeditated_ compare with the words above mentioned?
EXAMPLES.
In ---- prayer, what men most admire, God least regardeth.
As a speaker, he excelled in ---- address, while his opponent was at a loss to answer him because not gifted in the same way.
No more on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled light as lark at morn, And poured to lord and lady gay The ---- lay.
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EXTERMINATE (page 163).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation, and what is the original meaning of _exterminate_? _eradicate_? _extirpate_? 2. To what are these words severally applied?
EXAMPLES.
Since the building of the Pacific railroads in the United States, the buffalo has been quite ----.
The evil of intemperance is one exceedingly difficult to ----.
No inveterate improver should ever tempt me to ---- the dandelions from the green carpet of my lawn.
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FAINT (page 164).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the chief meanings of _faint_? 2. How is _faint_ a synonym of _feeble_ or _purposeless_? of _irresolute_ or _timid_? of _dim_, _faded_, or _indistinct_?
EXAMPLES.
Great is the strength of ---- arms combined, And we can combat even with the brave.
In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his ---- steps he stayed still; For he was ---- with cold, and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed limbs he hable was to weld.
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FAITH (page 164).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _belief_? 2. How does _credence_ compare with _belief_? 3. What is _conviction_? _assurance_? 4. What is an _opinion_? 5. How does a _persuasion_ compare with an _opinion_? 6. What is a _doctrine_? a _creed_? 7. What are _confidence_ and _reliance_? 8. What is _trust_? 9. What elements are combined in _faith_? 10. How is _belief_ often used in popular language as a precise equivalent of _faith_? 11. How is _belief_ discriminated from _faith_ in the strict religious sense?
EXAMPLES.
---- is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Put not your ---- in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
---- is largely involuntary; a mathematical demonstration can not be doubted by a sane mind capable of understanding the terms and following the steps.
Every one of us, whatever our speculative ----, knows better than he practises, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
There are few greater dangers for an army in the face of an enemy than undue ----.
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FAITHFUL (page 165).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what sense may a person be called _faithful_? 2. In what sense may one be called _trusty_? 3. Is _faithful_ commonly said of things as well as persons? is _trusty_? 4. What is the special difference of meaning between the two words? Give examples.
EXAMPLES.
Be thou ---- unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Thy purpose ---- is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.
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FAME (page 166).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _fame_? Is it commonly used in the favorable or unfavorable sense? 2. What are _reputation_ and _repute_, and in which sense commonly used? 3. What is _notoriety_? 4. From what do _eminence_ and _distinction_ result? 5. How does _celebrity_ compare with _fame_? 6. How does _renown_ compare with _fame_? 7. What is the import of _honor_? of _glory_?
EXAMPLES.
Saying, Amen: Blessing and ----, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and ----, and power and might, be unto our God for ever and ever.
A good ---- is more valuable than money.
Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of ----.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it ----.
Seeking the bubble ---- Even in the cannon's mouth.
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FANATICISM (page 166).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _fanaticism_? _bigotry_? 2. What do _fanaticism_ and _bigotry_ commonly include? 3. What is _intolerance_? 4. What is the distinctive meaning of _superstition_? 5. What is _credulity_? Is it distinctively religious?
EXAMPLES.
---- is a senseless fear of God.
The fierce ---- of the Moslems was the mainspring of their early conquests.
The ---- that will believe nothing contrary to a creed is often joined with a blind ---- that will believe anything in favor of it.
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FANCIFUL (page 167).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _fanciful_? 2. What does _fantastic_ add to the meaning of _fanciful_? 3. How does _grotesque_ especially differ from the _fanciful_ or _fantastic_? 4. How does _visionary_ differ from _fanciful_?
EXAMPLES.
Come see the north wind's masonry, ... his wild work; So ----, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion.
What ---- tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone!
Plays such ---- tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep.
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FANCY (page 167).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an intellectual _fancy_? 2. How does a _conceit_ differ from a _fancy_? a _conception_ from both? 3. What is an emotional or personal _fancy_? 4. What is _fancy_ as a faculty of the mind?
EXAMPLES.
Tell me where is ---- bred; Or in the heart or in the head?
Elizabeth united the occasional ---- of her sex with that sense and sound policy in which neither man nor woman ever excelled her.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one ----, and that is a wrong one.
If she were to take a ---- to anybody in the house, she would soon settle, but not till then.
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FAREWELL (page 168).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what language do _farewell_ and _good-by_ belong etymologically? How do they differ? 2. From what language have _adieu_ and _congé_ been adopted into English? 3. What is the special significance of _congé_? 4. What are _valediction_ and _valedictory_?
EXAMPLES.
---- my paper's out so nearly I've only room for yours sincerely.
The train from out the castle drew, But Marmion stopped to bid ----.
----! a word that must be, and hath been-- A sound which makes us linger;--yet------.
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FEAR (page 168).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the generic term of this group? 2. What is _fear_? Is it sudden or lingering? In view of what class of dangers? 3. What is the etymological meaning of _horror_? What does the word signify in accepted usage? 4. What are the characteristics of _affright_, _fright_, and _terror_? 5. How is _fear_ contrasted with _fright_ and _terror_ in actual or possible effects? 6. What is _panic_? What of the numbers affected by it? 7. What is _dismay_? How does it compare with _fright_ and _terror_?
EXAMPLES.
Even the bravest men may be swept along in a sudden ----.
With much more ---- I view the fight than thou that mak'st the fray.
Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No ---- lest he should swerve or faint.
The ghastly spectacle filled every beholder with ----.
A lingering ---- crept upon him as he waited in the darkness.
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FEMININE (page 169).
QUESTIONS.
1. How are _female_ and _feminine_ discriminated? 2. What is the difference between a _female_ voice and a _feminine_ voice? 3. How are _womanly_ and _womanish_ discriminated in use?
EXAMPLES.
Notice, too, how precious are these ---- qualities in the sick room.
The demand for closet-room is no mere ---- fancy, but the good sense of the sex.
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FETTER (page 169).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are _fetters_ in the primary sense? 2. What are _manacles_ and _handcuffs_ designed to fasten or hold? _gyves_? 3. What are _shackles_ and what are they intended to fasten or hold? 4. Of what material are all these restraining devices commonly composed? By what general name are they popularly known? 5. What are _bonds_ and of what material composed? 6. Which of these words are used in the metaphorical sense?
EXAMPLES.
But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy ---- by thee.
Slaves can not breathe in England . . . They touch our country, and their ---- fall.
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FEUD (page 170).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _feud_? Of what is it used? 2. Is a _quarrel_ in word or act? _contention_? _strife_? _contest_? 3. How does _quarrel_ compare in importance with the other words cited? 4. What does an _affray_ always involve? To what may a _brawl_ or _broil_ be confined? 5. How do these words compare in dignity with _contention_, _contest_, _controversy_, and _dissension_?
EXAMPLES.
Could we forbear ---- and practise love We should agree as angels do above.
"Between my house and yours," he answered, "There is a ---- of five hundred years."
Beware of entrance to a ----.
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FICTION (page 170).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _fiction_ in the most common modern meaning of the word? 2. How does a _fiction_ differ from a _novel_? from a _fable_? from a _myth_? 3. How does a _myth_ differ from a _legend_? 4. How do _falsehood_ and _fabrication_ differ from the words above mentioned? 5. Is _fabrication_ or _falsehood_ the more odious term? Which term is really the stronger? 6. What is a _story_? Is it good or bad, true or false? With what words of the group does it agree?
EXAMPLES.
O scenes surpassing ----, and yet true, Scenes of accomplished bliss.
A ---- strange is told of thee.
I believe the whole account from beginning to end to be a pure ----.
A thing sustained by such substantial evidence could not be a mere ---- of the imagination.
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FIERCE (page 171).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _fierce_ signify? 2. To what does _ferocious_ refer? How do the two words differ? 3. What does _savage_ signify?
EXAMPLES.
---- was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land.
Contentions ----, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
The ---- savages massacred the survivors to the last man.
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FINANCIAL (page 172).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _monetary_ directly refer? 2. How does _pecuniary_ agree with and differ from _monetary_? 3. To what does _financial_ especially apply? 4. In what connection is _fiscal_ most commonly used?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- year closes with the society out of debt.
He was rejoiced to receive the ---- aid at a time when it was most needed.
In a ---- panic, many a sound business house goes down for want of power to realize instantly on valuable securities.
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FINE (page 172).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _fine_ derived, and what is its original meaning? 2. How, from this primary meaning does _fine_ become a synonym of _excellent_ and _beautiful_? 3. How does it come into connection with _clarified_, _clear_, _pure_, _refined_? 4. How is it connected with _dainty_, _delicate_, and _exquisite_? 5. How does _fine_ come to be a synonym for _minute_, _comminuted_? How for _filmy_, _tenuous_? for _keen_, _sharp_? Give instances of the use of _fine_ in its various senses.
EXAMPLES.
Some people are more ---- than wise.
---- feathers do not always make ---- birds.
The ----est balances must be kept under glass, because so ----ly adjusted as to be ---- to a film of dust or a breath of air.
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FIRE (page 173).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential fact underlying the visible phenomena which we call _fire_? 2. What is _combustion_? 3. How wide is its range of meaning? 4. What is a _conflagration_?
EXAMPLES.
He's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the ----?
Lo! as he comes, in Heaven's array, And scattering wide the ---- of day.
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FLOCK (page 173).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the most general word of this group? 2. What is a _group_, and of what class of objects may it be composed? 3. To what class of animals does _brood_ apply? to what class does _litter_ apply? 4. Of what is _bevy_ used? _flock_? 5. To what is _herd_ limited? 6. Of what is _pack_ used? 7. What is a _drove_?
EXAMPLES.
What is not good for the ---- is not good for the bee.
He heard the bleating of the ----s and the twitter of birds among the trees.
The lowing ---- winds slowly o'er the lea.
Excited ----s gathered at the corners discussing the affair.
A ---- of brightly clad women and children were enjoying a picnic under the trees.
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FLUCTUATE (page 173).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _fluctuate_? 2. In what one characteristic do _swerve_ and _veer_ differ from _oscillate_, _fluctuate_, _undulate_, and _waver_? 3. What is the difference in mental action between _hesitate_ and _waver_? between _vacillate_ and _waver_? 4. Which of the above-mentioned words apply to persons? which to feelings?
EXAMPLES.
Thou almost mak'st me ---- in my faith.
The surface of the prairies rolls and ---- to the eye.
It is almost universally true that the human mind ---- at the moment of committing a crime.
The vessel suddenly ---- from her course.
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FLUID (page 174).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _fluid_? 2. Into what two sections are _fluids_ divided? 3. What is a _liquid_? a _gas_? 4. Are all _liquids_ _fluids_? 5. Are _gases_ _fluids_? 6. Are _gases_ ever _liquids_? 7. What substance is at once a _liquid_ and a _fluid_ at the ordinary temperature and pressure?
EXAMPLES.
Now nature paints her colors, how the bee Sits on the bloom, extracting ---- sweet.
This earth was once a ---- haze of light.
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FOLLOW (page 174).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _follow_? 2. How does _follow_ compare with _chase_ and _pursue_? 3. As regards succession in time, what is the difference between _follow_ and _ensue_? _result_?
EXAMPLES.
Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, ---- the triumph and partake the gale?
When Youth and Pleasure meet To ---- the glowing Hours with flying feet.
"Then ---- me, the Prince," I answered; "each be hero in his turn! Seven and yet one, like shadows in a dream."
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FORMIDABLE (page 176).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _formidable_? 2. How does _formidable_ differ from _dangerous_? _terrible_? _tremendous_? Give examples.
EXAMPLES.
All delays are ---- in war.
---- as an army with banners.
The great fleet moved slowly toward the forts, a ---- array.
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FORTIFICATION (page 176).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does a _fortress_ specifically differ from a _fortification_? 2. What is the distinctive meaning of _citadel_? 3. What is a _fort_? 4. What is a _fastness_ or _stronghold_?
EXAMPLES.
For a man's house is his ----.
A mighty ---- is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our helper He amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.
Alva built a ---- in the heart of Antwerp to overawe the city.
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FORTITUDE (page 176).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _fortitude_? 2. How does it compare with _courage_? 3. How do _resolution_ and _endurance_ compare?
EXAMPLES.
Unbounded ---- and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind.
Tell thy story; If thine, consider'd, prove the thousandth part Of my ----, thou art a man, and I Have suffer'd like a girl.
Thou didst smile, Infused with a ---- from heaven, When I had decked the sea with drops full salt.
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FORTUNATE (page 177).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _fortunate_ compare with _successful_? 2. How are _lucky_ and _fortunate_ discriminated? 3. In what special sense, and with what reference are _favored_ and _prospered_ used?
EXAMPLES.
It is not a ---- word this same "impossible;" no good comes of those that have it so often in their mouth.
Ah, ---- years! once more who would not be a boy?
I have a mind presages me such thrift That I should questionless be ----.
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FRAUD (page 177).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _fraud_? How does it differ from _deceit_ or _deception_? 2. What is the design of an _imposture_? 3. What is _dishonesty_? a _cheat_? a _swindle_? How do all these fall short of the meaning of _fraud_? 4. Of what relations is _treachery_ used? _treason_?
EXAMPLES.
---- doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper none dare call it ----.
Whoever has once become notorious by base ----, even if he speaks truth gains no belief.
The first and the worst of all ---- is to cheat oneself.
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FRIENDLY (page 178).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _friendly_ signify as applied to persons, or as applied to acts? 2. How does the adjective _friendly_ compare in strength with the noun _friend_? 3. What is the special meaning of _accessible_? of _companionable_ and _sociable_? of _cordial_ and _genial_?
EXAMPLES.
He that hath friends must show himself ----.
A fellow feeling makes one wondrous ----.
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FRIENDSHIP (page 179).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _friendship_? 2. In what one quality does it differ from _affection_, _attachment_, _devotion_, and _friendliness_? 3. What is the meaning of _comity_ and _amity_? 4. How does _friendship_ differ from _love_?
EXAMPLES.
Talk not of wasted ----, ---- never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment.
----, peculiar boon of heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.
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FRIGHTEN (page 180).
QUESTIONS.
1. By what is one _frightened_? by what _intimidated_? 2. What is it to _browbeat_ or _cow_? 3. What is it to _scare_ or _terrify_?
EXAMPLES.
The child was ---- by the stories the nurse told.
The loud, loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep-- Shake the firm nerve, ---- the bravest soul!
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FRUGALITY (page 180).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _economy_? 2. What is _frugality_? 3. What is _parsimony_? How does it compare with _frugality_? What is the motive of _parsimony_? 4. What is _miserliness_? 5. What is the special characteristic of _prudence_ and _providence_? of _thrift_? 6. What is the motive of _economy_?
EXAMPLES.
There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising, increase of ---- in laying out.
By close ---- the little home was at last paid for and there was a great thanksgiving time.
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GARRULOUS (page 181).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _garrulous_ signify? _chattering_? 2. How do _talkative_ and _loquacious_ differ from _garrulous_, and from each other? 3. What is the special application of _verbose_?
EXAMPLES.
To tame a shrew, and charm her ---- tongue.
Guard against a feeble fluency, a ---- prosiness, a facility of saying nothing.
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GENDER (page 181).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _sex_? 2. To what beings only does _sex_ apply? 3. What is _gender_? To what does it apply? Do the distinctions of _gender_ correspond to the distinctions of _sex_? Give examples of languages containing three _genders_, and of the classification in languages containing but two.
EXAMPLES.
The maternal relation naturally and necessarily divides the work of the ----s giving to woman the indoor life, and to man, the work of the outer world.
While in French every word is either of the masculine or feminine ----, the language sometimes fails for that very reason to indicate the ---- of some person referred to.
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GENERAL (page 181).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _general_ signify? 2. How does _general_ compare with _universal_? with _common_? 3. What illustrations of the differences are given in the text?
EXAMPLES.
---- friendships will admit of division, one may love the beauty of this, the good humor of that person, ... and so on.
A ---- feeling of unrest prevailed.
Death comes to all by ---- law.
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GENEROUS (page 182).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the primary meaning of _generous_? the common meaning? 2. How does _generous_ differ from _liberal_? 3. What is the distinctive sense of _munificent_? 4. What does _munificent_ tell of the motive or spirit of the giver? What does _generous_ tell? 5. How does _disinterested_ compare with _generous_? 6. What is the distinctive meaning of _magnanimous_? How does it differ from _generous_ as regards dealing with insults or injuries?
EXAMPLES.
To cunning men I will be very kind; and ---- To mine own children, in good bringing up.
A ---- friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
The conqueror proved as ---- in victory as he was terrible in battle.
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GENIUS (page 183).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _genius_? 2. What is _talent_? 3. Which is the higher quality? 4. Which is the more dependent upon training?
EXAMPLES.
The eternal Master found His single ---- well employ'd.
No great ---- was ever without some mixture of madness.
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GET (page 183).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a person said to _get_? 2. How is _get_ related to expectation or desire? How is _gain_ related to those words? 3. By what processes does one _acquire_? Is the thing _acquired_ sought or desired, or not? 4. What does one _earn_? 5. Does a person always _get_ what he _earns_ or always _earn_ what he _gets_? 6. What does _obtain_ imply? Is the thing one _obtains_ an object of _desire_? How does _obtain_ differ from _get_? 7. What does _win_ imply? How is one said to _win_ a suit at law? What is the correct term in legal phrase? Why? 8. By what special element does _procure_ differ from _obtain_? 9. What is especially implied in _secure_?
EXAMPLES.
He ---- a living as umbrella mender but a poor living it is.
---- wisdom and with all thy getting, ---- understanding.
In the strange city he found that all his learning would not ---- him a dinner.
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GIFT (page 184).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _gift_? Is _gift_ used in the good or the bad sense? Does the legal agree with the popular sense? 2. What synonymous word is always used in the evil sense? 3. What is a _benefaction_? a _donation_? What difference of usage is recognized between the two words? 4. What is a _gratuity_, and to whom given? 5. What is the sense and use of _largess_? 6. What is a _present_, and to whom given? 7. What is the special sense of _boon_? 8. What is a _grant_, and by whom made?
EXAMPLES.
He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his ----.
True love's the ---- which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven.
"----, ----, noble knights," cried the heralds.
The courts of justice had fallen so low that it was practically impossible to win a cause without a ----.
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GIVE (page 185).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the primary meaning of _give_? the secondary meaning? 2. Can we _give_ what is undesired? 3. Can we _give_ what we are paid for? 4. How is _give_ always understood when there is no limitation in the context? 5. Is it correct to say "He _gave_ it to me for nothing"? 6. What is to _grant_? 7. What is implied when we speak of _granting_ a favor? 8. What is to _confer_? 9. What is especially implied in _impart_? in _bestow_?
EXAMPLES.
My God shall ---- all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
---- to every man that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee, turn not thou away.
The court promptly ---- the injunction.
The king ---- upon him the honor of knighthood.
One of the pleasantest things in life is to ---- instruction to those who really desire to learn.
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GOVERN (page 185).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does the word _govern_ imply? How does it differ from _control_? 2. How do _command_ and _control_ differ? 3. How do _rule_ and _govern_ differ? 4. What is the special significance of _sway_? of _mold_? 5. What is it to _manage_? 6. What is the present meaning of _reign_? How does it compare with _rule_?
EXAMPLES.
He that ---- his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city.
For some must follow, and some ---- Tho all are made of clay.
Daniel Webster well described the character of "Old Hickory" in the sentence, "I do not say that General Jackson did not mean to ---- his country well, but I do say that General Jackson meant to ---- his country."
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GRACEFUL (page 186).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _graceful_ denote? How is it especially distinguished from _beautiful_?
EXAMPLES.
How ---- upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace.
A ---- myrtle rear'd its head.
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GRIEF (page 187).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _grief_? 2. How does _grief_ compare with _sorrow_? with _sadness_? with _melancholy_? 3. What two chief senses has _affliction_? 4. What is implied in _mourning_, in its most common acceptation?
EXAMPLES.
We glory in ---- also.
For our light ---- which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
What private ---- they have, alas! I know not, that made them do it.
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HABIT (page 187).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _custom_? _routine_? Which is the more mechanical? 2. What element does _habit_ add to _custom_ and _routine_? 3. Should we preferably use _custom_ or _habit_ of a society? of an individual? 4. What is _fashion_? _rule_? _system_? 5. What are _use_ and _usage_, and how do they differ from each other? 6. What is _practise_? 7. What is the distinctive meaning of _wont_?
EXAMPLES.
Every ---- is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the ---- of walking by walking, of running by running.
Montaigne is wrong in declaring that ---- ought to be followed simply because it is ----, and not because it is reasonable or just.
Lord Brougham says "The longer I live the more careful I am to entrust everything that I really care to do to the beneficent power of ----."
---- makes perfect.
Without ---- little that is valuable is ever learned or done.
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HAPPEN (page 188).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _happen_ signify? 2. How does it differ from _chance_? 3. What is the distinctive meaning of _betide_? 4. How do both _befall_ and _betide_ differ from _happen_ in grammatical construction? 5. What is the meaning of _supervene_? 6. Is _transpire_ correctly used in the sense of _happen_? When may an event be properly said to _transpire_?
EXAMPLES.
Whatever ---- at all ---- as it should.
Thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bear grain, it may ---- of wheat, or of some other grain.
Ill ---- the graceless renegade!
It ---- that a secret treaty had been previously concluded between the powers.
If mischief ---- him, thou shalt bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
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HAPPINESS (page 189).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _gratification_? _satisfaction_? 2. What is _happiness_? 3. How does _happiness_ differ from _comfort_? 4. How does _comfort_ differ from _enjoyment_? 5. How does _pleasure_ compare with _comfort_ and _enjoyment_? with _happiness_? 6. What do _gratification_ and _satisfaction_ express? How do they compare with each other? 7. How does _happiness_ compare with _gratification_, _satisfaction_, _comfort_, and _pleasure_? with _delight_ and _joy_? 8. What is _delight_? _ecstasy_? _rapture_? 9. What is _triumph_? _blessedness_? _bliss_?
EXAMPLES.
Sweet is ---- after pain.
Virtue alone is ---- below.
Hope elevates and ---- brightens his crest.
The storm raged without, but within the house all was brightness and ----.
There is no ---- so sweet and abiding as that of doing good.
This is the very ---- of love.
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HAPPY (page 190).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original meaning of _happy_? With what words is it allied in this sense? 2. In what way is _happy_ a synonym of _blessed_? 3. What is the meaning of _happy_ in its most frequent present use?
EXAMPLES.
---- are they that mourn for they shall be comforted.
To what ---- accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit.
A ---- heart maketh a ---- countenance.
I would not spend another such a night, Tho 'twere to buy a world of ---- days.
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HARMONY (page 191).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _harmony_? 2. How does _harmony_ compare with _agreement_? 3. How do _concord_ and _accord_ compare with _harmony_ and with each other? 4. What is _conformity_? _congruity_? 5. What is _consistency_? 6. What is _unanimity_? 7. How do _consent_ and _concurrence_ compare?
EXAMPLES.
We have made a covenant with death and with hell are we at ----.
Tyrants have made desperate efforts to secure outward ---- in religious observances without ---- of religious belief.
That action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the ---- of the universe.
The speaker was, by general ----, allowed to proceed.
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HARVEST (page 192).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original meaning of _harvest_? its later meaning? 2. How does _harvest_ compare with _crop_? 3. What is _produce_? How does it differ from _product_? 4. What is the meaning of _proceeds_? _yield_? _return_? 5. Is _harvest_ capable of figurative use, and in what sense? 6. What is the special meaning of _harvest-home_? _harvest-tide_? _harvest-time_?
EXAMPLES.
Just tickle the earth with a hoe, and she laughs with an abundant ----.
And the ripe ---- of the new-mown hay gives it a sweet and wholesome odor.
It soweth here with toil and care But the ---- of love is there.
Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn ---- that mellowed long.
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HATRED (page 193).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _repugnance_? _aversion_? 2. How does _hatred_ compare with _aversion_ as applied to persons? as applied to things? 3. What is _malice_? _malignity_? 4. What is _spite_? 5. What are _grudge_, _resentment_, and _revenge_, and how do they compare with one another?
EXAMPLES.
Heaven has no ---- like love to ---- turned.
The slight put upon him filled him with deep ----.
He ne'er bore ---- for stalwart blow Ta'en in fair fight from gallant foe.
In all cases of wilful injury to person or property, the law presumes ----.
I felt from our first meeting an instinctive ---- for the man, which on acquaintance deepened into a settled ----.
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HAVE (page 194).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what is _have_ applied? How widely inclusive a word is it? 2. What does _possess_ signify? 3. What is to _hold_? to _occupy_? 4. How does _be in possession_ compare with _possess_? 5. How does _own_ compare with _possess_ or with _be in possession_? 6. What is the difference between the statement that a man _has_ reason, and the statement that he _is in possession_ of his reason?
EXAMPLES.
Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I ---- is thine.
I earnestly entreat you, for your own sakes, to ---- yourselves of solid reasons.
He occupies the house, but does not ---- it.
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HAZARD (page 194).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _hazard_? 2. How does _hazard_ compare with _danger_? 3. How do _risk_ and _venture_ compare with _chance_ and _hazard_, and with each other? 4. How do _accident_ and _casualty_ differ? 5. What is a _contingency_?
EXAMPLES.
We must take the current when it serves or lose our ----.
I have set my life upon a cast, and I will stand the ---- of the die.
There is no ---- in doing known duty.
Do you think it necessary to provide for every ---- before taking the first step?
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HEALTHY (page 195).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _healthy_? of _healthful_? Are the words properly interchangeable? 2. What are the chief synonyms of _healthy_? of _healthful_? 3. In what sense is _salubrious_ used, and to what is it applied? 4. To what realm does _salutary_ belong?
EXAMPLES.
In books, or work, or ---- play let my first years be passed.
Blessed is the ---- nature; it is the coherent, sweetly cooperative, not the self-distracting one.
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HELP (page 195).
QUESTIONS.
1. Is _help_ or _aid_ the stronger term? 2. Which is used in excitement or emergency? 3. Does _help_ include _aid_ or does _aid_ include _help_? 4. Which implies the seconding of another's exertions? Do we _aid_ or _help_ the helpless? 5. How do _cooperate_ and _assist_ differ? 6. To what do _encourage_ and _uphold_ refer? _succor_ and _support_?
EXAMPLES.
He does not prevent a crime when he can ---- it.
Know then whatever cheerful and serene ---- the mind ---- the body too.
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HERETIC (page 196).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _heretic_? a _schismatic_? 2. In what does a _heretic_ differ from his church or religious body? a _schismatic_? 3. How do a _heretic_ and a _schismatic_ often differ in action? 4. How are the terms _dissenter_ and _non-conformist_ usually applied?
EXAMPLES.
A man that is an ----, after the first and second admonition, reject.
Churchmen and ---- alike resisted the tyranny of James II.
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HETEROGENEOUS (page 196).
QUESTIONS.
1. When are substances _heterogeneous_ as regards each other? 2. When is a mixture, as cement, said to be _heterogeneous_? when _homogeneous_? 3. What is the special significance of _non-homogeneous_? 4. How does _miscellaneous_ differ from _heterogeneous_?
EXAMPLES.
My second son received a sort of ---- education at home.
Courtier and patriot can not mix Their ---- politics Without an effervescence.
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HIDE (page 197).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which is the most general term of this group, and what does it signify? 2. Is an object _hidden_ by intention, or in what other way or ways, if any? 3. Does _conceal_ evince intention? 4. How does _secrete_ compare with _conceal_? How is it chiefly used? 5. What is it to _cover_? to _screen_?
EXAMPLES.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to ---- their thoughts.
Ye little stars! ---- your diminished rays.
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HIGH (page 198).
QUESTIONS.
1. What kind of a term is _high_? What does it signify? Give instances of the relative use of the word. 2. How does _high_ compare with _deep_? To what objects may these words be severally applied? 3. What is the special significance of _tall_? 4. What element does _lofty_ add to the meaning of _high_ or _tall_? 5. How do _elevated_ and _eminent_ compare in the literal sense? in the figurative? 6. How do the words above mentioned compare with _exalted_? 7. What contrasted uses has _high_ in the figurative sense? 8. What is _towering_ in the literal, and in the figurative sense?
EXAMPLES.
A pillar'd shade, ---- overarched, and echoing walks between.
A daughter of the gods, divinely ---- and most divinely fair.
What is that which the breeze on the ---- steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
He knew Himself to sing, and build the ---- rime.
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HINDER (page 199).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _hinder_? 2. How does _hinder_ differ from _delay_? 3. How does _hinder_ compare with _prevent_? 4. What is the meaning of _retard_? 5. What is it to _obstruct_? to _resist_? How do these two words compare with each other?
EXAMPLES.
---- the Devil, and he will flee from you.
My tears must stop, for every drop ---- my needle and thread.
It is the study of mankind to ---- that advance of age or death which can not be ----.
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HISTORY (page 200).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _history_? How does it relate events? To what class of events does it apply? 2. How does _history_ differ from _annals_ or _chronicles_?
EXAMPLES.
Happy the people whose ---- are dulled.
---- is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
---- is philosophy teaching by example.
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HOLY (page 200).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _sacred_? 2. How does it compare with _holy_? 3. Which term do we apply directly to God? 4. In what sense is _divine_ loosely used? What is its more appropriate sense?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- time is quiet as a nun breathless with adoration.
A ---- burden is this life ye bear.
All sects and churches of Christendom hold to some form of the doctrine of the ---- inspiration of the Christian Scriptures.
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HOME (page 201).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the general sense of _abode_, _dwelling_, and _habitation_? What difference is there in the use of these words? 2. From what language is _home_ derived? What is its distinctive meaning?
EXAMPLES.
An ---- giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
The attempt to abolish the ideal woman and keep the ideal ---- is a predestinated failure.
A house without love may be a castle or a palace, but it is not a ----.
Love is the life of a true ----.
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HONEST (page 202).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _honest_ in ordinary use? 2. What is the meaning of _honorable_? 3. How will the merely _honest_ and the truly _honorable_ man differ in action? 4. What is _honest_ in the highest and fullest sense? How, in this sense, does it differ from _honorable_?
EXAMPLES.
---- labor bears a lovely face.
An ---- man's the noblest work of God.
No form of pure, undisguised murder will be any longer allowed to confound itself with the necessities of ---- warfare.
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HORIZONTAL (page 202).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _horizontal_ signify? How does it compare with _level_? 2. From what language is _flat_ derived? 3. What is its original meaning? its most common present sense? In what derived sense is it often used? 4. What are the senses of _plain_ and _plane_?
EXAMPLES.
Sun and moon were in the ---- sea sunk.
Ample spaces o'er the smooth and ---- pavement.
The prominent lines in Greek architecture were ----, and not vertical.
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HUNT (page 203).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _hunt_? 2. For what is a _chase_ or _pursuit_ conducted? a _search_? 3. What does _hunt_ ordinarily include? 4. Is it correct to use _hunt_ when _search_ only is contemplated? 5. How are these words used in the figurative senses?
EXAMPLES.
Among the inalienable rights of man are life, liberty, and the ---- of happiness.
All things have an end, and so did our ---- for lodgings.
The ---- formed the principal amusement of our Norman kings, who for that purpose retained in their possession forests in every part of the kingdom.
The ---- is up, but they shall know The stag at bay's a dangerous foe.
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HYPOCRISY (page 204).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _pretense_ derived, and what does it signify? 2. What is _hypocrisy_? 3. What is _cant_? _sanctimoniousness_? 4. What is _pietism_? _formalism_? _sham_? 5. How does _affectation_ compare with _hypocrisy_?
EXAMPLES.
Let not the Trojans, with a feigned ---- of proffered peace, delude the Latian prince.
---- is a fawning and flexible art, which accommodates itself to human feelings, and flatters the weakness of men in order that it may gain its own ends.
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HYPOCRITE (page 204).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _hypocrite_ derived? What is its primary meaning? 2. What common term includes the other words of the group? 3. How are _hypocrite_ and _dissembler_ contrasted with each other? 4. What element is common to the _cheat_ and the _impostor_? How do the two compare with each other?
EXAMPLES.
It is the weakest sort of politicians that are the greatest ----.
I dare swear he is no ---- but prays from his heart.
In the reign of Henry VII., an ----, named Perkin Warbeck, laid claim to the English crown.
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HYPOTHESIS (page 205).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _hypothesis_? What is its use in scientific investigation and study? 2. What is a _guess_? a _conjecture_? a _supposition_? a _surmise_? 3. What implication does _surmise_ ordinarily convey? What is a _theory_? a _scheme_? a _speculation_? How do they differ?
EXAMPLES.
----, fancies, built on nothing firm.
There are no other limits to ---- than those of the human mind.
The development ----, tho widely accepted by men of science fails of proof at many important points.
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IDEA (page 206).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _idea_ derived, and what did it originally mean? 2. What did _idea_ signify in early philosophical use? 3. What is its present popular use, and with what words is it now synonymous?
EXAMPLES.
All rests with those who read. A work or ---- Is what each makes it to himself.
He who comes up to his own ---- of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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IDEAL (page 206).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _ideal_? 2. What is an _archetype_? a _prototype_? 3. Can a _prototype_ be equivalent to an _archetype_? 4. Is an _ideal_ primal, or the result of development? 5. What is an _original_? 6. What is the _standard_? How does it compare with the _ideal_? 7. How are _idea_ and _ideal_ contrasted?
EXAMPLES.
Be a ---- to others and then all will go well.
The mind's the ---- of the man.
Every man has at times in his mind the ---- of what he should be, but is not.
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IDIOCY (page 207).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _idiocy_? 2. What is _imbecility_? How does it compare with _idiocy_? 3. How does _insanity_ differ from _idiocy_ or _imbecility_? 4. How do _folly_ and _foolishness_ compare with _idiocy_? 5. What is _fatuity_? _stupidity_?
EXAMPLES.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis ---- to be wise.
To expect an effect without a cause, or attainment without application, is little less than ----.
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IDLE (page 208).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _idle_ derived, and what is its original meaning? 2. What does _idle_ in present use properly denote? Does it necessarily denote the absence of all action? 3. What does _lazy_ signify? How does it differ from _idle_? 4. What does _inert_ signify? _sluggish_? 5. In what realm does _slothful_ belong, and what does it denote? 6. How does _indolent_ compare with _slothful_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- stream was covered with a green scum.
Never ---- a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the ---- turn upon his bed.
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IGNORANT (page 208).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _ignorant_ signify? How wide is its range? 2. What is the meaning of _illiterate_? 3. How does _unlettered_ compare with _illiterate_?
EXAMPLES.
So foolish was I and ----; I was as a beast before thee.
A boy is better unborn than ----.
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IMAGINATION (page 209).
QUESTIONS.
1. Into what two parts was _imagination_ divided in the old psychology? 2. What name is now preferably given to the so-called _Reproductive Imagination_ by President Porter and others? 3. What is _fantasy_ or _phantasy_? In what mental actions is it manifested? 4. What is _fantasy_ in ordinary usage? 5. How is _imagination_ defined? _fancy_? 6. To what faculty of the mind do both of these activities or powers belong? 7. In what other respects do _imagination_ and _fancy_ agree? What is the one great distinction between them? How do they respectively treat the material objects or images with which they deal? Which power finds use in philosophy, science, and mechanical invention, and how?
EXAMPLES.
While ----, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
And as ---- bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
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IMMEDIATELY (page 211).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the primary meaning of _immediately_? Its meaning as an adverb of time? 2. What did _by and by_ formerly signify? What is its present meaning? 3. What did _directly_ formerly signify, and what does it now commonly mean? 4. What change has _presently_ undergone? 5. Is _immediately_ losing anything of its force? What words now seem more emphatic?
EXAMPLES.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal ---- does always last.
Let us go up ----, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
Obey me ----!
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IMMERSE (page 212).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _dip_ derived? from what _immerse_? 2. How do the two words differ in dignity? How as to the completeness of the action? How as to the continuance of the object in or under the liquid? 3. Which word is preferably used as to the rite of baptism? 4. What does _submerge_ imply? 5. What are _douse_ and _duck_? 6. What special sense has _dip_ which the other words do not share?
EXAMPLES.
Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past ---- its dead.
The ships of war, Congress and Cumberland, were ---- by the Merrimac.
When food can not be swallowed, life may be prolonged by ---- the body in nutritive fluids.
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IMMINENT (page 212).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _imminent_ derived and with what primary sense? _impending_? 2. How do _imminent_ and _impending_ differ in present use? 3. How does _threatening_ differ from the two words above given?
EXAMPLES.
And nodding Ilium waits the ---- fall.
And these she does apply for warnings, portents, And evils ----.
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IMPEDIMENT (page 213).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _impediment_ primarily signify? _obstacle_? _obstruction_? 2. How does _obstacle_ differ from _obstruction_? 3. What is a _hindrance_? 4. Is an _impediment_ what one finds or what he carries? Is it momentary or constant? What did the Latin _impedimenta_ signify? 5. What is an _encumbrance_? How does it differ from an _obstacle_ or _obstruction_? 6. Is a _difficulty_ within one or without?
EXAMPLES.
Something between a ---- and a help.
Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we march'd without ----.
Demosthenes became the foremost orator of the world in spite of an ---- in his speech.
----s overcome are the stepping-stones by which great men rise.
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IMPUDENCE (page 213).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _impertinence_ primarily denote? What is its common acceptation? 2. What is _impudence_? _insolence_? 3. What is _officiousness_? 4. What does _rudeness_ suggest?
EXAMPLES.
With matchless ---- they style a wife The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life.
It is better not to turn friendship into a system of lawful and unpunishable ----.
A certain class of ill-natured people mistake ---- for frankness.
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INCONGRUOUS (page 214).
QUESTIONS.
1. When are things said to be _incongruous_? 2. To what is _discordant_ applied? _inharmonious_? 3. What does _incompatible_ signify? When are things said to be _incompatible_? 4. To what does _inconsistent_ apply? 5. What illustrations of the uses of these words are given in the text? 6. What is the meaning of _incommensurable_?
EXAMPLES.
No solitude is so solitary as that of ---- companionship.
I hear a strain ---- as a merry dirge, or sacramental bacchanal might be.
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INDUCTION (page 215).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _deduction_? _induction_? 2. What is the proof of an _induction_? 3. What process is ordinarily followed in what is known as scientific _induction_? 4. How do _deduction_ and _induction_ compare as to the certainty of the conclusion? 5. How does an _induction_ compare with an _inference_?
EXAMPLES.
The longer one studies a vast subject the more cautious in ---- he becomes.
Perhaps the widest and best known ---- of Biology, is that organisms grow.
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INDUSTRIOUS (page 215).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _busy_ differ from _industrious_? 2. What is the implication if we say one is _industrious_ just now? 3. What does _diligent_ add to the meaning of _industrious_?
EXAMPLES.
Look cheerfully upon me, Here, love; thou see'st how ---- I am.
The ---- have no time for tears.
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INDUSTRY (page 216).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _industry_? 2. What does _assiduity_ signify as indicated by its etymology? _diligence_? 3. How does _application_ compare with _assiduity_? 4. What is _constancy_? _patience_? _perseverance_? 5. What is _persistence_? What implication does it frequently convey? 6. How does _industry_ compare with _diligence_? 7. To what do _labor_ and _pains_ especially refer?
EXAMPLES.
Honors come by ----; riches spring from economy.
'Tis ---- supports us all.
There is no success in study without close, continuous, and intense ----.
His ---- in wickedness would have won him enduring honor if it had taken the form of ---- in a better cause.
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INFINITE (page 216).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _infinite_ derived, and with what meaning? To what may it be applied? 2. How do _countless_, _innumerable_, and _numberless_ compare with _infinite_? 3. What is the use of _boundless_, _illimitable_, _limitless_, _measureless_, and _unlimited_? 4. What are the dimensions of _infinite_ space? What is the duration of _infinite_ time?
EXAMPLES.
My bounty is as ---- as the sea, my love as deep, the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are ----.
Man's inhumanity to man makes ---- thousands mourn.
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INFLUENCE (page 217).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _influence_? is one _influenced_ by external or internal force? 2. To what kind of power does _actuate_ refer? Does one person _actuate_ or _influence_ another? 3. What do _prompt_ and _stir_ imply? 4. What is it to _excite_? 5. What do _incite_ and _instigate_ signify? How do these two words differ? 6. What do _urge_ and _impel_ imply? How do they differ in the source of the power exerted? 7. What do _drive_ and _compel_ imply, and how do these two words compare with each other?
EXAMPLES.
He was ---- by his own violent passions to desperate crime.
And well she can ----.
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable, If not to Thee, to those they ----.
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INHERENT (page 218).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _inherent_ signify? 2. To what realm of thought does _immanent_ belong? What does it signify? How does it differ from _inherent_? Which is applied to the Divine Being? 3. To what do _congenital_, _innate_, and _inborn_ apply as distinguished from _inherent_ and _intrinsic_? 4. With what special reference does _congenital_ occur in medical and legal use? 5. What is the difference in use between _innate_ and _inborn_? 6. What does _inbred_ add to the sense of _innate_ or _inborn_? 7. What is _ingrained_?
EXAMPLES.
An ---- power in the life of the world.
All men have an ---- right to life, liberty, and protection.
He evinced an ---- stupidity that seemed almost tantamount to ---- idiocy.
Many philosophers hold that God is ---- in nature.
Any stable currency must be founded at last upon something, as gold or silver, that has ---- value.
The wrongs and abuses which are ---- in the very structure and constitution of society as it now exists throughout Christendom.
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INJURY (page 219).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _injury_ derived? What is its primary meaning? Its derived meaning? 2. How inclusive a word is _injury_? 3. From what is _damage_ derived, and with what original sense? _detriment_? How do these words compare in actual use? 4. How does _damage_ compare with _loss_? How can a _loss_ be said to be partial? 5. What is _evil_, and with what frequent suggestion? 6. What is _harm_? _hurt_? How do these words compare with _injury_? 7. What is _mischief_? How caused, and with what intent?
EXAMPLES.
Nothing can work me ----, except myself; the ---- that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.
Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword, And won thy love, doing thee ----.
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INJUSTICE (page 220).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _injustice_? 2. How does _wrong_ differ from _injustice_ in legal use? How in popular use? 3. What is _iniquity_ in the legal sense? in the common sense?
EXAMPLES.
War in men's eyes shall be a monster of ----.
No man can mortgage his ---- as a pawn for his fidelity.
Such an act is an ---- upon humanity.
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INNOCENT (page 220).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _innocent_ in the full sense signify? 2. Is _innocent_ positive or negative? How does it compare with _righteous_, _upright_, or _virtuous_? 3. In what two applications may _immaculate_, _pure_, and _sinless_ be used? 4. With what limited sense is _innocent_ used of moral beings? 5. In what sense is _innocent_ applied to inanimate substances?
EXAMPLES.
They are as ---- as grace itself.
For blessings ever wait on ---- deeds, And tho a late, a sure reward succeeds.
The wicked flee where no man pursueth, but the ---- are bold as a lion.
A daughter, and a goodly babe; ... the queen receives Much comfort in't: says, _My poor prisoner, I am ---- as you_.
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INQUISITIVE (page 221).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the characteristics of an _inquisitive_ person? 2. Is _inquisitive_ ever used in a good sense? What, in that sense, is ordinarily preferred? 3. What does _curious_ signify, and how does it differ from _inquisitive_?
EXAMPLES.
His was an anxiously ---- mind, a scrupulously conscientious heart.
Adrian was the most ---- man that ever lived, and the most universal inquirer.
I am ---- to know the cause of this sudden change of purpose.
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INSANITY (page 221).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _insanity_ in the widest sense? in its restricted use? Which use is the more frequent? 2. From what is _lunacy_ derived? What did it originally imply? In what sense is it now used? 3. What is _madness_? 4. What is _derangement_? _delirium_? 5. What is the specific meaning of _dementia_? 6. What is _aberration_? 7. What is the distinctive meaning of _hallucination_? 8. What is _monomania_? 9. What are _frenzy_ and _mania_?
EXAMPLES.
Go--you may call it ----, folly--you shall not chase my gloom away.
All power of fancy over reason is a degree of ----.
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INTERPOSE (page 222).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _interpose_? 2. How does _intercede_ differ from _interpose_? 3. What is it to _intermeddle_? How does it differ from _meddle_? from _interfere_? 4. What do _arbitrate_ and _mediate_ involve?
EXAMPLES.
Dion, his brother, ---- for him and his life was saved.
Nature has ---- a natural barrier between England and the continent.
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INVOLVE (page 223).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _involve_ derived, and with what primary meaning? 2. How does _involve_ compare with _implicate_? 3. Are these words used in the favorable or the unfavorable sense? 4. As regards results what is the difference between _include_, _imply_, and _involve_?
EXAMPLES.
Rocks may be squeezed into new forms, bent, contorted, and ----.
An oyster-shell sometimes ---- a pearl.
---- in other men's affairs, he went down to their ruin.
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JOURNEY (page 223).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _journey_ derived? What is its primary meaning? Its present meaning? 2. What is _travel_? How does it differ from _journey_? 3. What was the former meaning of _voyage_? its present meaning? 4. What is a _trip_? a _tour_? 5. What is the meaning and common use of _passage_? of _transit_? 6. What is the original meaning of _pilgrimage_? How is it now used?
EXAMPLES.
---- makes all men countrymen.
All the ---- of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
It were a ---- like the path to heaven, To help you find them.
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JUDGE (page 224).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _judge_ in the legal sense? 2. What other senses has the word _judge_ in common use? 3. What is a _referee_, and how appointed? an _arbitrator_? 4. What is the popular sense of _umpire_? the legal sense? 5. What is the present use of _arbiter_? 6. What are the _judges_ of the United States Supreme Court officially called?
EXAMPLES.
The end crowns all, And that old common ----, Time, Will one day end it.
A man who is no ---- of law may be a good ---- of poetry.
The ---- is only the mouth of law, and the magistrate who punishes is only the hand.
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JUSTICE (page 225).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _justice_ in governmental relations? in social and personal relations? in matters of reasoning or literary treatment? 2. To what do _integrity_, _rectitude_, _right_, _righteousness_, and _virtue_ apply? What do all these include? 3. What two contrasted senses has _lawfulness_? 4. To what does _justness_ refer, and in what sense is it used?
EXAMPLES.
---- exalteth a nation.
---- of life is fame's best friend.
He shall have merely ----, and his bond.
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KEEP (page 226).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the general meaning of _keep_? 2. How does _keep_ compare with _preserve_? _fulfil_? _maintain_? 3. What does _keep_ imply when used as a synonym of _guard_ or _defend_?
EXAMPLES.
These make and ---- the balance of the mind.
The good old rule Sufficeth them,--the simple plan, That they should take who have the power And they should ---- who can.
---- thy shop, and thy shop will ---- thee.
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KILL (page 226).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _kill_? 2. To what are _assassinate_, _execute_, and _murder_ restricted? 3. What is the specific meaning of _murder_? _execute_? _assassinate_? To what class of persons is the latter word ordinarily applied? 4. What is it to _slay_? 5. To what is _massacre_ limited? With what special meaning is it used? 6. To what do _butcher_ and _slaughter_ primarily apply? What is the sense of each when so used? 7. What is it to _despatch_?
EXAMPLES.
To look into her eyes was to ---- doubt.
Two presidents of the United States have been ----.
Hamilton was ---- in a duel by Aaron Burr.
The place was carried by storm, and the inhabitants ---- without distinction of age or sex.
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KIN (page 227).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _kind_ compare with _kin_? 2. What do _kin_ and _kindred_ denote? 3. What is _affinity_? How does it differ from _consanguinity_?
EXAMPLES.
A little more than ----, and less than ----.
He held his seat,--a friend to the human ----.
The patient bride, a little sad, Leaving of home and ----.
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KNOWLEDGE (page 227).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _knowledge_? How does it differ from _information_? 2. What is _perception_? _apprehension_? _cognizance_? 3. What is _intuition_? 4. What is _experience_, and how does it differ from _intuition_? 5. What is _learning_? _erudition_?
EXAMPLES.
---- comes, but wisdom lingers.
The child is continually seeking ----; hence his endless questions.
'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical ----, And coming events cast their shadows before.
----s lie at the very foundation of all reasoning.
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LANGUAGE (page 228).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation of _language_? What was its original signification? How wide is its present meaning? 2. As regards the use of words, what does _language_ denote in the general and in the restricted sense? 3. What does _speech_ always involve? 4. Can we speak of the _speech_ of animals? of their _language_? 5. What is a _dialect_? a _barbarism_? an _idiom_? 6. What is a _patois_? How does it differ from a _dialect_? 7. What is a _vernacular_?
EXAMPLES.
We must be free or die, who speak the ---- That Shakespeare spake: the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.
---- is great; but silence is greater.
An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light, And with no ---- but a cry.
Thought leapt out to wed with Thought, Ere Thought could wed itself with ----.
A Babylonish ---- Which learned pedants much affect.
O! good, my lord, no Latin; I'm not such a truant since my coming As not to know the ---- I have lived in.
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LARGE (page 229).
QUESTIONS.
1. To how many dimensions does _large_ apply? How does it differ from _long_? 2. How does _large_ compare with _great_? with _big_?
EXAMPLES.
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those ---- in war, are ---- in love.
Everything is twice as ---- measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale as on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.
And his ---- manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, Pipes and whistles in its sound.
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LAW (page 229).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the definition of _law_ in its ideal? What does it signify in common use? 2. What are the characteristics of _command_ and _commandment_? of an _edict_? 3. What is a _mandate_? a _statute_? an _enactment_? 4. In what special connection is _formula_ commonly used? _ordinance_? _order_? 5. What is the meaning of _law_ in such an expression as "the _laws_ of nature?" What in more strictly scientific use? 6. What is a _code_? _jurisprudence_? _legislation_? What is an _economy_? Is _law_ ever a synonym for these words, and in what way?
EXAMPLES.
Order is Heaven's first ----; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest.
Those he commands move only in ----, Nothing in love.
His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute ----.
We have strict ----, and most biting ----.
Napoleon gave France the best ---- of ---- she has ever possessed.
---- is physical, established sequence; intellectual, a condition of intellectual action in order that truth may be reached; and moral, an imperative which determines the right guidance of our higher life.
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LIBERTY (page 230).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _freedom_? 2. What is _liberty_ in the primary sense? in the widest sense? 3. How do _freedom_ and _liberty_ compare? 4. How is _independence_ used in distinction from _freedom_ and _liberty_? 5. Is _freedom_ or _liberty_ more freely used in a figurative sense? 6. What is _license_? How does it compare with _liberty_ and _freedom_?
EXAMPLES.
In Rousseau's philosophy ---- is conceived of as lawlessness.
When ---- from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.
The ---- to go higher than we are is given only when we have fulfilled amply the duty of our present sphere.
---- they mean when they cry ----! For who loves that must first be wise and good.
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LIGHT (page 231).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _light_? 2. What are the characteristics of a _flame_? a _blaze_? 3. What is a _flare_? a _flash_? 4. What is the sense of _glare_ and _glow_? How do they differ, and to what are they applied? 5. To what do _shine_ and _sheen_ refer? 6. What do _glimmer_, _glitter_, and _shimmer_ denote? 7. What is _gleam_? a _glitter_? a _sparkle_? _glistening_? 8. What is _scintillation_? in what two senses used? 9. To what are _twinkle_ and _twinkling_ applied? 10. What is _illumination_? _incandescence_?
EXAMPLES.
From a little spark may burst a mighty ----.
A ---- as of another life, my kindling soul received.
It is ----, that enables us to see the differences between things; and it is Christ that gives us ----.
White with the whiteness of the snow, Pink with faintest rosy ----, They blossom on their sprays.
Ghastly in the ---- of day.
---- in golden coats like images.
So ---- a good deed in a naughty world.
There's but the ---- of a star Between a man of peace and war.
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LISTEN (page 232).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _hear_ signify? What does _listen_ add to the meaning of _hear_? 2. What does _attend_ add to the meaning of _listen_? 3. What does _heed_ further imply? 4. What is the difference between _listen for_ and _listen to_?
EXAMPLES.
And ----! how blithe the throstle sings; He, too, is no mean preacher;
Till I ---- and ---- If a step draweth near.
Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song; I ---- it in the opening year, I ----, and it cheers me long.
----, every one That ---- may, unto a tale That's merrier than the nightingale.
The men lay silent in the tall grass ---- for the signal gun that should bid them rise and charge.
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LITERATURE (page 233).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _literature_ in the most general sense? in more limited sense? 2. What does _literature_, used absolutely, denote? 3. How may _literature_ include _science_? How is it ordinarily contrasted with _science_?
EXAMPLES.
Wherever ---- consoles sorrow or assuages pain; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears--there is exhibited in its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens.
---- are lifelong friends.
---- are embalmed minds.
In our own language we have a ---- nowhere surpassed, in whose lock no foreign key will ever rust.
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LOAD (page 233).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _burden_ derived, and with what primary meaning? _load_? 2. What does _weight_ signify? How does it compare with _load_ and _burden_? 3. What are _cargo_, _freight_, and _lading_? 4. What is the distinctive sense of _pack_?
EXAMPLES.
Bear ye one another's ----.
Wearing all that ---- Of learning lightly like a flower.
The ass will carry his ----, but not a double ----.
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LOOK (page 234).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinction between _look_ and _see_? between these words and _behold_? 2. What is it to _gaze_? to _glance_? to _stare_? 3. What do _scan_, _inspect_, and _survey_ respectively express, and how are they distinguished from one another? 4. What element or elements does _watch_ add to the meaning of _look_?
EXAMPLES.
It is always well to ---- at people when addressing them.
Having eyes they ---- not, and having ears hear not.
Then gently ---- your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human.
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that ---- for the morning.
How peacefully the broad and golden moon Comes up to ---- upon the reaper's toil!
I am monarch of all I ----, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
But, ----, the morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.
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LOVE (page 235).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _affection_? 2. What may be given as a brief definition of _love_? 3. Does _affection_ apply to persons or things? To what does _love_ apply? 4. What term is preferable to _love_ as applying to articles of food and the like? 5. How does _love_ differ from _affection_? from _friendship_?
EXAMPLES.
Peace, commerce, and honest ---- with all nations help to form the bright constellation which has gone before us.
And you must love him ere to you he will seem worthy of your ----.
Yet pity for a horse o'erdriven And ---- in which my hound has part Can hang no weight upon my heart, In its assumptions up to heaven.
Such ---- and unbroken faith As temper life's worst bitterness.
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MAKE (page 236).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential idea of _make_? 2. How is _make_ allied with _create_? 3. How is _make_ allied with _compose_ or _constitute_? 4. What are some chief antonyms for _make_? 5. What are the prepositions chiefly used with _make_, and how employed?
EXAMPLES.
In the beginning God ---- the heaven and the earth.
The mason ----, the architect ----.
I assert confidently that it is in the power of one American mother to ---- as many gentlemen as she has sons.
Newton discovered, but did not ---- the law of gravitation.
The river flows over a bed of pebbles like those that ---- the beach and the surrounding plains.
A hermit and a wolf or two My whole acquaintance ----.
If we were not willing, they possessed the power of ---- us to do them justice.
The lessons of adversity sometimes soften and ----, but as often they indurate and pervert.
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MARRIAGE (page 236).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _matrimony_ specifically denote? 2. What two senses has _marriage_? 3. From what language is _wedlock_ derived? what is its distinctive use? 4. What is the meaning of _wedding_? _nuptials_?
EXAMPLES.
Let me not to the ---- of true minds admit impediments.
The lover was killed in a duel on the night before the intended ----.
I'll join my eldest daughter, and my joy, To him forthwith in holy ---- bonds.
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MASCULINE (page 237).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what is _male_ applied? To what _masculine_? 2. To what does _manly_ refer? _manful_? In what connection can _manly_ be used where _manful_ could not be substituted? 3. What is the sense of _mannish_? _virile_?
EXAMPLES.
Every virtue in the higher phases of ---- character begins in truth and pity or truth and reverence to all womanhood.
One brave and ---- struggle And he gained the solid land And the cover of the mountains And the carbines of his band.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; ---- and female created he them.
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MASSACRE (page 237).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _massacre_? _butchery_? _havoc_? 2. To what does _carnage_ especially refer? _slaughter_? 3. Which of these words can be used of the destruction of life in open and honorable warfare?
EXAMPLES.
Mark! where his ---- and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude and calls it peace!
Forbade to wade through ---- to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
The capture of Port Arthur was followed by a terrible ----.
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MEDDLESOME (page 238).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the conduct specially characteristic of a _meddlesome_ person? of an _intrusive_ person? of one who is _obtrusive_? _officious_? 2. To what is _obtrusive_ chiefly applied? _intrusive_? _officious_? _meddlesome_?
EXAMPLES.
Where sorrow's held ---- and turned out, There wisdom will not enter nor true power, Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
A ---- monkey had been among the papers.
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MELODY (page 238).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _harmony_? _melody_? In what special feature does the one differ from the other? 2. How many parts are required for _harmony_? how many for _melody_? 3. What is _unison_? 4. What does _music_ include?
EXAMPLES.
Sweetest ---- Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
----, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory.
Ring out ye crystal spheres And with your ninefold ---- Make up full consort to the angelic ----.
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MEMORY (page 239).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _memory_ in the special and in the general sense? 2. What is _remembrance_, and how distinguished from _memory_? 3. Is _remembrance_ voluntary or involuntary? 4. What is _recollection_, and what does it involve? 5. What is _reminiscence_? _retrospection_? How do these two words differ?
EXAMPLES.
---- like a purse, if it be over-full that it can not shut, all will drop out of it; take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy ---- spoil the digestion thereof.
---- wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
It is a favorite device of eminent men to devote their old age to writing their ----s, thus quietly living over again a busy or tumultuous life.
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MERCY (page 239).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _mercy_ in the strictest sense? 2. To what class is _grace_ shown? 3. To what class are _mercy_, _forgiveness_, and _pardon_ extended? 4. In what wider significations is _mercy_ used? 5. What is _clemency_? _leniency_ or _lenity_? How do these words compare with _mercy_?
EXAMPLES.
How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And ---- then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
The only protection which the conquered could find was in the moderation, the ----, and the enlarged policy of the conquerors.
To favor sin is to discourage virtue; undue ---- to the bad is unkindness to the good.
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METER (page 240).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _euphony_? How does it differ from _meter_, _measure_, and _rhythm_? 2. How are _rhythm_ and _meter_ produced? 3. How does _meter_ differ from _rhythm_? 4. What is a _verse_ in the strict sense? In what wider sense is the word often used?
EXAMPLES.
---- is a very vague and unscientific term. Each nation considers its own language, each tribe its own dialect, euphonic.
---- may be defined to be a succession of poetical feet arranged in regular order according to certain types recognized as standards, in verses of a determinate length.
We have three principal domains in which ---- manifests its nature and power--dancing, music, poetry.
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MIND (page 241).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _mind_? How does it differ from _intellect_? 2. What does _consciousness_ include? Is it attended with distinct thinking and willing? 3. What is the _soul_? 4. From what is _spirit_ used in special contradistinction? How does it differ from _soul_? 5. What is Paley's definition of _instinct_? 6. In what contrasted meanings is the word _sense_ employed? 7. What is _thought_?
EXAMPLES.
A great ---- will be strong to live, as well as to think.
God is a ----: and they that worship him must worship him in ---- and in truth.
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MINUTE (page 242).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _minute_? 2. When is a thing said to be _comminuted_? 3. How does _fine_ differ from _comminuted_? 4. What terms are applied to an account extended to _minute_ particulars? to an examination similarly extended?
EXAMPLES.
No ---- room so warm and bright, Wherein to read, wherein to write.
Life hangs on, held by a ---- thread.
An organism so ---- as to be visible only under the microscope, yet possessed of life, motion, and seeming intelligence is a source of ceaseless wonder.
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MISFORTUNE (page 242).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _misfortune_? Is the sufferer considered blameworthy for it? 2. What is _calamity_? _disaster_? 3. In what special sense are the words _affliction_, _chastening_, _trial_, and _tribulation_ used? How are these four words discriminated the one from another?
EXAMPLES.
He's not valiant that dares die, But he that boldly bears ----.
I never knew a man in life who could not bear another's ---- perfectly like a Christian.
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MODEL (page 243).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _model_? a _pattern_? How are they distinguished from one another? 2. Which admits of freedom or idealization?
EXAMPLES.
Things done without ----, in their issue Are to be fear'd.
Be a ---- to others, and then all will go well.
Washington and his compeers had no ---- of a federal republic with constitutional bonds and limitations.
Moses was admonished, See that thou make all things according to the ---- shewed to thee in the mount.
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MODESTY (page 244).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _modesty_ in the general sense? In what specific sense is the word also used? 2. What is _bashfulness_? _diffidence_? _coyness_? _reserve_?
EXAMPLES.
For silence and chaste ---- is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.
If a young lady has that discretion and ----, without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it.
His shrinking ---- was often mistaken for a proud ----.
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MONEY (page 244).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _money_? _specie_? _cash_? 2. How does _property_ differ from _money_? 3. What is _bullion_? _capital_?
EXAMPLES.
I am not covetous for ----; Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost.
For the love of ---- is the root of all evil.
He converted all his ---- into ready ----.
One who undertakes to do business without ---- is likely to be speedily straitened for ----.
---- in reversion may be of far less value than ---- in hand.
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MOROSE (page 245).
QUESTIONS.
1. By what characteristics are the _morose_ distinguished? the _sullen_ and _sulky_? 2. How does _sullen_ differ from _sulky_? 3. What is the meaning of _surly_? 4. Which of these words denote transient moods and which denote enduring states or disposition?
EXAMPLES.
My master is of ---- disposition, And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality.
A poet who fails in writing, becomes often a ---- critic.
He answered with a ---- growl.
Achilles remained in his tent in ---- inaction.
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MOTION (page 246).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _motion_? 2. How does _motion_ differ from _movement_? Give examples. 3. In what sense is _move_ employed? 4. What is the special sense of _motion_ in a deliberative assembly? 5. Is _action_ or _motion_ the more comprehensive word? Which is commonly used in reference to the mind?
EXAMPLES.
That ---- is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
There is no death! What seems so is ----; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.
The Copernican theory first clearly explained the ---- of the planets.
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MUTUAL (page 246).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _common_? _mutual_? _reciprocal_? 2. Is it correct to speak of a _mutual_ friend?
EXAMPLES.
---- friendships will admit of division, one may love the beauty of this, the good humor of that person.
In all true family life there is a ---- dependence which binds hearts together.
---- action is the rule in the human body, where every part is alternately means and end, and every action both cause and effect.
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NAME (page 247).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _name_ in the most general sense? 2. In the more limited sense, how does a _name_ differ from an _appellation_? a _title_? Give instances of the use of these three words. 3. From what language is _epithet_ derived? What is its primary meaning? 4. What does _epithet_ signify in literary use? 5. What part of speech is an _epithet_? Is it favorable or unfavorable in signification? 6. What is a _cognomen_? How does it differ from a _surname_? 7. What is _style_ considered as a synonym of _name_?
EXAMPLES.
Those he commands, move only in command Nothing in love: now does he feel the ---- Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief.
O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his ---- together.
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NATIVE (page 248).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _native_ denote? _natal_? _natural_? 2. What examples are given in the text of the correct use of these words?
EXAMPLES.
I would advise no child's being taught music who has not a ---- aptitude for it.
It was the 4th of July, the ---- day of American freedom.
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NAUTICAL (page 248).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _marine_ derived? _maritime_? What do these two words respectively signify? 2. From what is _naval_ derived? _nautical_? How do these words differ in meaning? 3. How does _ocean_, used adjectively, differ from _oceanic_?
EXAMPLES.
That sea-beast, Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ---- stream.
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NEAT (page 249).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _clean_ signify? 2. Does _orderly_ apply to persons or things, and in what sense? 3. What does _tidy_ denote? 4. What is the meaning of _neat_? 5. How does _nice_ compare with _neat_? 6. What is the significance of _spruce_? _trim_? _dapper_?
EXAMPLES.
If he (Jefferson) condescended to turn ---- sentences for delicate ears--still, he was essentially an earnest man.
Still to be ----, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd.
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NECESSARY (page 250).
QUESTIONS.
1. When is a thing properly said to be _necessary_? 2. What is the meaning of _essential_? How does it differ from _indispensable_? 3. With reference to what is a thing said to be _requisite_? How does _requisite_ compare with _essential_ and _indispensable_? 4. How do _inevitable_ and _unavoidable_ compare? To what kind of things are both these words applied? 5. How do _needed_ and _needful_ compare with _necessary_?
EXAMPLES.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is ---- for you in a book.
The ideas of space and time are called in philosophy ---- ideas.
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NECESSITY (page 250).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _necessity_? 2. What do _need_ and _want_ imply? How does _need_ compare with _want_? 3. How does _necessity_ compare with _need_? 4. What is an _essential_?
EXAMPLES.
Courage is, on all hands, considered as an ---- of high character.
No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his ----.
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NEGLECT, _n._ (page 251).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _neglect_? _negligence_? How do the two words compare? 2. What senses has _negligence_ that _neglect_ has not? 3. Which of the two words may be used in a passive sense? 4. What is the legal phrase for a punishable _omission_ of duty?
EXAMPLES.
Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, ---- God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd.
But, alas, to make A fixed figure, for the hand of ---- To point his slow unmoving finger at.
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NEW (page 252).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _new_? of _modern_? of _recent_? 2. How does _recent_ compare with _new_? 3. What is the meaning of _novel_? of _fresh_? 4. To what do _young_ and _youthful_ distinctively apply?
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NIMBLE (page 253).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _nimble_ properly refer? 2. To what does _swift_ apply? 3. How does _alert_ compare with _nimble_? For what is _alert_ more properly a synonym?
EXAMPLES.
Win her with gifts, if she respect not words; Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, More ---- than words, do move a woman's mind.
Profound thinkers are often helpless in society, while shallow men have ---- and ready minds.
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NORMAL (page 253).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _natural_ signify? _normal_? Give instances of the distinctive use of the two words. 2. What does _typical_ signify? _regular_? _common_?
EXAMPLES.
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more ----.
The ---- round of work may grow monotonous, but it is evidently necessary.
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NOTWITHSTANDING (page 254).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the signification of _however_ as a conjunction? of _nevertheless_? 2. Which is the most emphatic word of the group and what does it signify? 3. How do _yet_ and _still_ compare with _notwithstanding_? with _but_? 4. What is the force of _tho_ and _altho_? 5. How does _notwithstanding_ as a preposition differ from _despite_ or _in spite of_?
EXAMPLES.
---- do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.
---- till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.
There was an immense crowd ---- the inclement weather.
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OATH (page 254).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is an _oath_? an _affidavit_? How does the _affidavit_ differ from the _oath_? 2. What is an _adjuration_? 3. What is a _vow_? How does it differ from an _oath_? 4. Of what words is _oath_ a popular synonym? 5. In what do _anathema_, _curse_, _execration_, and _imprecation_ agree? 6. What is an _anathema_? 7. Is a _curse_ just or unjust? 8. What does _execration_ express? _imprecation_?
EXAMPLES.
Better is it that thou shouldest not ----, than that thou shouldest ---- and not pay.
Then how can any man be said To break an ---- he never made?
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OBSCURE (page 255).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _obscure_? 2. How does _obscure_ compare with _complicated_? with _complex_? with _abstruse_? with _profound_?
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OBSOLETE (page 256).
QUESTIONS.
1. When is a word _obsolete_? When is a word _archaic_? 2. Is an _old_ or _ancient_ word necessarily _obsolete_? 3. What is meant by saying that a word is _rare_? 4. Is a _rare_ word necessarily _obsolete_ or an _obsolete_ word necessarily _rare_?
EXAMPLES.
When the labors of modern philologists began, Sanscrit was the most ---- of all the Aryan languages known to them.
Atlas, we read in ---- song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack.
It is wonderful that so few ---- words are found in Shakespeare after the lapse of three centuries.
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OBSTINATE (page 256).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _headstrong_ differ from _obstinate_ and _stubborn_? 2. How do _obstinate_ and _stubborn_ differ from each other? Which is commonly applied to the inferior animals and to inanimate things? 3. What is the meaning of _refractory_? How does it differ from _stubborn_? Which word is applied to metals, and in what sense? 4. What is the meaning of _obdurate_? _contumacious_? _pertinacious_? 5. What words do we apply to the _unyielding_ character or conduct that we approve?
EXAMPLES.
Is it in heav'n a crime to love too well? To bear too tender, or too ---- a heart, To act a Lover's or a Roman's part?
"I shall talk of what I like," she said wilfully, clasping her hands round her knees with the gesture of an ---- child.
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OBSTRUCT (page 257).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the literal meaning of _obstruct_? How does it compare with _hinder_? 2. How does _obstruct_ compare with _impede_? 3. What does _arrest_ signify in the sense here considered?
EXAMPLES.
There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education often labors to silence and ----.
No, no ----ing the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might.
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OLD (page 257).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _old_ signify? 2. How do _old_ and _ancient_ compare? 3. What contrasted senses has _old_? 4. What is the special force of _olden_? 5. In what sense are _gray_, _hoary_, and _olden_ used of material objects? 6. To what is _aged_ chiefly applied? 7. To what do _decrepit_, _gray_, and _hoary_ apply, as said of human beings? 8. To what does _senile_ apply? 9. In what sense is _elderly_ used? 10. What are the primary and derived meanings of _remote_? 11. What does _venerable_ express?
EXAMPLES.
The hills, Rock-ribbed and ---- as the sun,--the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The ---- woods, ... ... and, poured round all, ---- ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The ---- patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
O good ---- head which all men knew!
Shall we, shall ---- men, like ---- trees, Strike deeper their vile root, and closer cling, Still more enamored of their wretched soil?
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OPERATION (page 258).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _operation_ denote? and by what kind of agent is it effected? 2. What do _performance_ and _execution_ denote? and by what kind of agents are they effected? 3. How does _performance_ differ from _execution_?
EXAMPLES.
It requires a surgical ---- to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
His promises were, as he then was, mighty; But his ----, as he is now, nothing.
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ORDER (page 258).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _instruction_ imply? _direction_? 2. How does _order_ compare with _direction_? 3. To what classes of persons are _orders_ especially given? How does an _order_ in the commercial sense become authoritative? 4. How does _command_ compare with _order_? 5. In what sense is _requirement_ used? By what authority is a _requirement_ made? 6. In what sense is _prohibition_ used? _injunction_?
EXAMPLES.
General Sherman writes in his Memoirs, "I have never in my life questioned or disobeyed an ----."
"Ye shall become like God"--transcendent fate! That God's ---- forgot, she plucked and ate.
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OSTENTATION (page 259).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _ostentation_? How does it compare with _boasting_? _display_? _show_? 2. What is _pomp_? _pageant_ or _pageantry_? What do the two latter words suggest, and how do they compare with _pomp_? 3. From what is _parade_ derived? What is its primary meaning? With what implication is it always used in the metaphorical sense? How does _parade_ compare with _ostentation_?
EXAMPLES.
The boast of heraldry, the ---- of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the inevitable hour; The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
The President's salary does not permit ----, nor, indeed, is ---- expected of him.
With all his wealth, talent, and learning, he was singularly free from ----.
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OVERSIGHT (page 260).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what two contrasted senses is _oversight_ used? 2. How does _superintendence_ compare with _oversight_? 3. With what special reference is _control_ used? 4. What kind of a term is _surveillance_, and what does it imply?
EXAMPLES.
Those able to conduct great enterprises must be allowed wages of ----.
O Friendship, equal poised ----!
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the ---- thereof not by constraint, but willingly.
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OUGHT (page 260).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _ought_ properly signify? 2. How does _ought_ compare with _should_? 3. In what secondary sense is _ought_ sometimes used?
EXAMPLES.
He has not a right to do what he likes, but only what he ---- with his own, which after all is his own only in a qualified sense.
Age ---- have reverence, and ---- be worthy to have it.
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PAIN (page 261).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _pain_? _suffering_? 2. How does _distress_ rank as compared with _pain_ and _suffering_? 3. What is an _ache_? a _throe_? a _paroxysm_? 4. What is _agony_? _anguish_?
EXAMPLES.
To each his ----s; all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's ----, The unfeeling for his own.
The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ----, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature.
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PALLIATE (page 261).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do _cloak_ and _palliate_ agree in original meaning? How do they differ in the derived senses? 2. What is it to _extenuate_, and how does that word compare with _palliate_?
EXAMPLES.
Speak of me as I am; nothing ---- Nor aught set down in malice.
We would not dissemble nor ---- [our transgressions] before the face of Almighty God, our heavenly Father.
I shall never attempt to ---- my own foibles by exposing the error of another.
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PARDON, _v._ (page 262).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _pardon_? 2. To what does _forgive_ refer? 3. How do _pardon_ and _forgive_ differ in use in accordance with the difference in meaning? 4. What is it to _remit_? to _condone_? to _excuse_?
EXAMPLES.
How many will say ----, And find a kind of license in the sound To hate a little longer!
I ---- him, as heaven shall ---- me.
To err is human, to ----, divine.
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PARDON, _n._ (page 262).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _acquittal_? How does it differ from _pardon_ as regards the person acquitted or pardoned? 2. Is an innocent person ever pardoned? 3. What is _oblivion_? _amnesty_? _absolution_?
EXAMPLES.
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called ----.
----, not wrath, is God's best attribute.
---- to the injured does belong, But they ne'er ---- who have done the wrong.
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PART, _n._ (page 264).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _part_? 2. What is a _fragment_? a _piece_? 3. What do _division_ and _fraction_ signify? 4. What is a _portion_? 5. What is a _share_? an _instalment_? a _particle_? 6. What do _component_, _constituent_, _ingredient_, and _element_ signify? How do they differ from one another? 7. What is a _subdivision_?
EXAMPLES.
The best ---- of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every ---- ... Can not but by annihilating die.
Many cheap houses were built to be sold by ----s.
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PARTICLE (page 264).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _particle_? 2. What does _atom_ etymologically signify? What is its meaning in present scientific use? 3. What is a _molecule_, and of what is it regarded as composed? 4. What is an _element_ in chemistry?
EXAMPLES.
Lucretius held that the universe originated from a fortuitous concourse of ----s.
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of ----s, The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.
Many aquatic animals, whose food consists of small ---- diffused through the water, have an apparatus for creating currents so as to bring such ---- within their reach.
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PATIENCE (page 265).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _patience_? 2. What is _endurance_? 3. How does _patience_ compare with _submission_ and _endurance_? 4. To what are _submission_ and _resignation_ ordinarily applied? 5. What is _forbearance_? How does it compare with _patience_?
EXAMPLES.
With ---- bear the lot to thee assigned, Nor think it chance, nor murmur at the load, For know what man calls Fortune is from God.
There is, however, a limit at which ---- ceases to be a virtue.
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PAY (page 266).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _pay_? _compensation_? _remuneration_? _recompense_? 2. What is an _allowance_? 3. What are _wages_? _earnings_? 4. What is _hire_? what does it imply? 5. For what is _salary_ paid? How does it differ from _wages_? 6. What is a _fee_, and for what given?
EXAMPLES.
I am not aware that ----, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul.
Our praises are our ----.
Carey, in early life, was a country minister with a small ----.
Laborers are remunerated by ----, and officials by ----.
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PEOPLE (page 266).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _community_? a _commonwealth_? 2. What is a _people_? a _race_? 3. What is a _state_? a _nation_? 4. What does _population_ signify? _tribe_?
EXAMPLES.
A ---- may let a king fall, and still remain a ----, but if a king let his ---- slip from him, he is no longer a king.
Questions of ---- have played a great part in the politics and wars of the latter half of the nineteenth century, the Germanic ----, the Slavonic ----, the Italian, and the Greek ----s struggling to assert their unity.
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PERCEIVE (page 267).
QUESTIONS.
1. What class of things do we _perceive_? 2. How does _apprehend_ differ in scope from _perceive_? 3. What does _conceive_ signify? 4. How does _comprehend_ compare with _apprehend_? with _conceive_?
EXAMPLES.
We may ---- the tokens of the divine agency without being able to ---- or ---- the divine Being.
... Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt ---- that thou wast blind before.
O horror! horror! horror! Tongue nor heart Can not ---- nor name thee!
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PERFECT (page 268).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _perfect_ in the fullest and highest sense? 2. What is _absolute_ in the fullest sense? 3. What is _perfect_ in the limited sense, and in popular language?
EXAMPLES.
We have the idea of a Being infinitely ----, and from this Descartes reasoned that such a being really exists.
'Shall remain'! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you His ---- 'shall'?
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PERMANENT (page 269).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _durable_ derived? to what class of substances is it applied? 2. What is _permanent_, and in what connections used? 3. How does _enduring_ compare with _durable_? with _permanent_?
EXAMPLES.
My heart is wax, molded as she pleases, but ---- as marble to retain.
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not ----, sweet, not ----, The perfume and suppliance of a minute.
For her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for ---- clothing.
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PERMISSION (page 269).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _authority_? 2. What is _permission_? 3. How does _permission_ compare with _allowance_? 4. What is a _permit_? 5. What is _license_? How does it compare with _authority_? with _permission_? 6. What does _consent_ involve?
EXAMPLES.
God is more there than thou; for thou art there Only by his ----.
Thieves for their robbery have ----, When judges steal themselves.
Very few of the Egyptians avail themselves of the ---- which their religion allows them, of having four wives.
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PERNICIOUS (page 270).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _pernicious_ derived, and what does it signify? 2. How does _pernicious_ compare with _injurious_? 3. What does _noisome_ denote? 4. What is the distinctive sense of _noxious_? 5. How does _noxious_ compare with _noisome_?
EXAMPLES.
Inflaming wine, ---- to mankind.
So bees with smoke, and doves with ---- stench, Are from their hives, and houses, driven away.
The strong smell of sulfur, and a choking sensation of the lungs indicated the presence of ---- gases.
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PERPLEXITY (page 270).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _perplexity_? _confusion_? How do the two words compare? 2. How do _bewilderment_ and _confusion_ compare? 3. From what does _amazement_ result?
EXAMPLES.
CAIUS.--Vere is mine host _de Jarterre_? HOST.--Here, master doctor, in ---- and doubtful dilemma.
There is such ---- in my powers As, after some oration fairly spoke By a beloved prince, there doth appear Among the buzzing, pleased multitude.
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PERSUADE (page 271).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _convince_ denote? How does it differ from the other words of the group? 2. What is it to _persuade_? 3. How is _convincing_ related to _persuasion_? 4. How does _coax_ compare with _persuade_?
EXAMPLES.
A long train of these practises has at length unwillingly ---- me that there is something hid behind the throne greater than the king himself.
He had a head to contrive, a tongue to ----, and a hand to execute any mischief.
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PERVERSE (page 272).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the etymological meaning of _perverse_? What does it signify in common use? 2. What does _petulant_ signify? _wayward_?
EXAMPLES.
And you, my lords--methinks you do not well, To bear with their ---- objections.
Whining, purblind, ---- boy!
Good Lord! what madness rules in brainsick men When, for so slight and frivolous a cause, Such ---- emulations shall arise.
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PHYSICAL (page 272).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _material_ signify? 2. What idea does _physical_ add to that contained in _material_? 3. To what do _bodily_, _corporal_, and _corporeal_ apply? 4. How do _bodily_ and _corporal_ differ from _corporeal_? 5. To what is _corporal_ now for the most part limited?
EXAMPLES.
---- punishment is practically abandoned in the greater number of American schools.
Man has two parts, the one ---- and earthly, the other immaterial and spiritual.
These races are all clearly differentiated by other ---- traits than the color of the skin.
We can not think of substance save in terms that imply ---- properties.
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PITIFUL (page 273).
QUESTIONS.
1. What was the original meaning of _pitiful_? What does it now signify? 2. How does _pitiful_ differ in use from _pitiable_? 3. What was the early and what is the present sense of _piteous_?
EXAMPLES.
There is something pleading and ---- in the simplicity of perfect ignorance.
The most ---- sight one ever sees is a young man doing nothing; the Furies early drag him to his doom.
O, the most ---- cry of the poor souls!
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PITY (page 273).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _pity_? _sympathy_? 2. How does _sympathy_ in its exercise differ from _pity_? 3. How does _pity_ differ from _mercy_? 4. How does _compassion_ compare with _mercy_ and _pity_? 5. How does _commiseration_ differ from _compassion_?
EXAMPLES.
Nothing but the Infinite ---- is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
He hallows every heart he once has swayed, And when his presence we no longer share, Still leaves ---- as a relic there.
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PLEAD (page 274).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _plead_ in the ordinary sense? in the legal sense? 2. How do _argue_ and _advocate_ differ? 3. What do _beseech_, _entreat_, and _implore_ imply? 4. How does _solicit_ compare with the above words?
EXAMPLES.
Speak to me low, my Savior, low and sweet, . . . Lest I should fear and fall, and miss thee so, Who art not missed by any that ----.
Speaking of the honor paid to good men, is it not time to ---- for a reform in the writing of biographies?
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PLEASANT (page 275).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _pleasant_ add to the sense of _pleasing_? 2. How does _pleasant_ compare with _kind_? 3. What does _good-natured_ signify? How does it compare with _pleasant_?
EXAMPLES.
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to ---- dreams.
When fiction rises ---- to the eye, Men will believe because they love the lie.
... If we must part forever, Give me but one ---- word to think upon.
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PLENTIFUL (page 276).
QUESTIONS.
1. What kind of a term is _enough_, and what does it mean? 2. How does _sufficient_ compare with _enough_? 3. What is _ample_? 4. To what do _abundant_, _ample_, _liberal_, and _plentiful_ apply? 5. How is _copious_ used? _affluent_? _plentiful_? 6. What does _complete_ express? 7. In what sense are _lavish_ and _profuse_ employed? 8. To what is _luxuriant_ applied?
EXAMPLES.
My ---- joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
Can anybody remember when the right sort of men and the right sort of women were ----?
Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all, The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received, And is ---- for both.
He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ---- shield.
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POETRY (page 277).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _poetry_? 2. Does _poetry_ involve _rime_? Does it require _meter_? 3. What is imperatively required beyond _verse_, _rime_, or _meter_ to constitute _poetry_?
EXAMPLES.
---- is rhythmical, imaginative language, expressing the invention, taste, thought, passion, and insight of a human soul.
He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty ----.
And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal ----.
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POLITE (page 277).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the characteristics of a _civil_ person? What more is found in one who is _polite_? 2. How does _courteous_ compare with _civil_? 3. What does _courtly_ signify? _genteel_? _urbane_? 4. In what sense is _polished_ used? _complaisant_?
EXAMPLES.
She is not ---- for the sake of seeming ----, but ---- for the sake of being kind.
He was so generally ---- that nobody thanked him for it.
Her air, her manners, all who saw admired; ---- tho coy, and gentle tho retired.
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POVERTY (page 279).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _poverty_ strictly denote? What does it signify in ordinary use? 2. What does _privation_ signify? How does it compare with _distress_? 3. What is _indigence_? _destitution_? _penury_? 4. What does _pauperism_ properly signify? How does it differ from _beggary_ and _mendicancy_?
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POWER (page 279).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _power_? 2. Is _power_ limited to intelligent agents, or how widely applied? 3. How does _ability_ compare with _power_? 4. What is _capacity_, and how related to _power_ and to _ability_? 5. What is _competency_? _faculty_? _talent_? 6. What are _dexterity_ and _skill_? How are they related to _talent_? 7. What is _efficacy_? _efficiency_?
EXAMPLES.
Bismarck was the one great figure of all Europe, with more ---- for good or evil than any other human being possessed at that time.
The soul, in its highest sense, is a vast ---- for God.
I reckon it is an oversight in a great body of metaphysicians that they have been afraid to ascribe our apprehensions of ---- to intuition. In consequence of this neglect, some never get the idea of ----, but merely of succession, within the bare limits of experience.
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PRAISE (page 280).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _praise_? By how many is it given, and how is it expressed? 2. What is _applause_? by how many given? and how expressed? 3. What is _acclamation_? How does it differ from _applause_? 4. How does _approbation_ differ from _praise_? 5. What does _approval_ add to the meaning of _praise_? 6. How does _compliment_ compare with _praise_? 7. What is _flattery_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.
---- no man e'er deserved who sought no more.
Gladly then he mixed Among those friendly powers, who him received With joy and ----s loud.
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PRAY (page 281).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _pray_ in the religious sense? 2. In what lighter and more familiar sense may _pray_ be used? Is this latter use now common?
EXAMPLES.
Hesiod exhorted the husbandman to ---- for a harvest, but to do so with his hand upon the plow.
I kneel, and then ---- her blessing.
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PRECARIOUS (page 282).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what is the term _uncertain_ applied? 2. What did _precarious_ originally signify? How is it now used, and how does it differ from _uncertain_?
EXAMPLES.
... Thou know'st, great son, The end of war's ----.
Life seems to be ---- in proportion to its value.
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PRECEDENT (page 282).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _precedent_? 2. How does _case_ fall short of the meaning of _precedent_? 3. What is an _obiter dictum_? How does it differ from a _precedent_?
EXAMPLES.
Where freedom broadens slowly down From ---- to ----.
Let us consider the reason of the ----, for nothing is law that is not reason.
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PREDESTINATION (page 282).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _predestination_? 2. How does _fate_ differ from _predestination_? 3. What does _necessity_ signify in the philosophical sense? 4. What is _foreknowledge_? Does it involve _foreordination_ or _predestination_?
EXAMPLES.
For ---- has wove the thread of life with pain.
All high truth is the union of two contradictories. Thus ---- and free-will are opposites; and the truth does not lie between these two, but in a higher reconciling truth which leaves both true.
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PREJUDICE (page 283).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _presumption_? On what is it founded? 2. On what are _prejudice_ and _prepossession_ based? How do these two words differ from each other?
EXAMPLES.
When the judgment's weak, the ---- is strong.
The ---- is always in favor of what exists.
His fine features, manly form, and perfect manners awakened an instant ---- in his favor.
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PRETENSE (page 283).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _pretense_? How does it differ from a _pretext_? 2. What is a _ruse_?
EXAMPLES.
The claim of a stronger nation to protect a weaker has commonly been but a ---- for conquest.
It is not poverty so much as ---- that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse.
The independent English nobility conspired to make an insurrection, and to support the prince's ----s.
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PREVENT (page 284).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original meaning of _prevent_? 2. What word is now commonly used in that sense? 3. What is the meaning of _obviate_? _preclude_? 4. How is _prevent_ at present used?
EXAMPLES.
The contrary supposition is obviously ----.
When the Siberian Pacific Railway is finished, what is there to ---- Russia from annexing nearly the whole of China?
There appears to be no way to ---- the difficulty.
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PREVIOUS (page 285).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _antecedent_ denote? 2. How does _preceding_ differ from _antecedent_ and _previous_? 3. How is _anterior_ commonly used? _prior_? 4. Of what is _former_ used? What does _former_ always imply?
EXAMPLES.
These matters have been fully explained in ---- chapters of this work.
The reader will be helped to an understanding of this process by a careful study of the diagram on the ---- page.
In ---- times many things were attributed to witchcraft that now have a scientific explanation.
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PRICE (page 285).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the _cost_ of an article? the _price_? 2. How do _cost_ and _price_ ordinarily differ? 3. In what exceptional case may _cost_ and _price_ agree? 4. What does _price_ always imply? 5. What is the meaning of _value_? How does market _value_ differ from intrinsic _value_? 6. How does _value_ differ from _worth_? 7. To what are _charge_ and _expense_ ordinarily applied?
EXAMPLES.
---- is the life-giving power of anything; ----, the quantity of labor required to produce it; ----, the quantity of labor which its possessor will take in exchange for it.
No man can permanently do business by making the ---- of his goods the same as their ---- to him, however such a method may help him momentarily in an emergency.
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PRIDE (page 286).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _pride_? _haughtiness_? _arrogance_? _disdain_? How do these qualities compare with _pride_? 2. What does _superciliousness_ imply according to its etymology? 3. How do _pride_ and _vanity_ differ? 4. What difference is noted between _self-conceit_ and _conceit_? 5. How do _self-respect_ and _self-esteem_ compare with each other and with the other words of the group?
EXAMPLES.
---- may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
There is nothing ---- can so little bear with as ---- itself.
---- is as ill at ease under indifference, as tenderness is under the love which it can not return.
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PRIMEVAL (page 287).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation and signification of _aboriginal_? _autochthonic_? _primeval_? 2. What do _prime_ and _primary_ denote? What special sense has _primary_ as in reference to a school? 3. How is _primordial_ used? 4. What does _primitive_ suggest, as in the expressions, the _primitive_ church, _primitive_ simplicity? 5. What is _pristine_? 6. How do _native_ and _indigenous_ compare?
EXAMPLES.
Thou from ---- nothingness didst call First chaos, then existence, Lord.
The ---- inhabitants of America are long since extinct, for even the races whom the white men conquered had themselves supplanted an earlier race.
All the later ages have wondered at and admired the whole-souled consecration of the ---- church.
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PROFIT (page 288).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are _returns_ or _receipts_? 2. What is _profit_ in the commercial sense? What in the intellectual and moral sense? 3. What is _utility_? 4. What does _advantage_ originally signify? Does it now necessarily imply having or gaining superiority to another person, or securing anything at another's expense? 5. What is _gain_? _benefit_? _emolument_? 6. To what does _expediency_ especially refer?
EXAMPLES.
Silence has many ----s.
No man can read with ---- that which he can not learn to read with pleasure.
Godliness with contentment is great ----.
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PROGRESS (page 289).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _progress_? 2. What do _attainment_, _proficiency_, and _development_ imply? 3. What is _advance_? How does it differ from _progress_?
EXAMPLES.
What is thy ---- compared with an Alexander's, a Mahomet's, a Napoleon's?
And dreams in their ---- have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
Human ---- consists in a continual increase in the number of those who, ceasing to live by the animal life alone and to feel the pleasures of sense only, come to participate in the intellectual life also.
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PROHIBIT (page 290).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _prohibit_? 2. How does _forbid_ compare with _prohibit_? 3. How does _prohibit_ compare with _prevent_?
EXAMPLES.
Tho much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind ---- to crave.
The laws of England, from the early Plantagenets, sternly ---- the conversion of malt into alcohol, excepting a small portion for medicinal purposes.
Human law must ---- many things that human administration of law can not absolutely ----; is not this true also of the divine government?
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PROMOTE (page 291).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _promote_? 2. To what does _promote_ apply? To persons or things, and in what way?
EXAMPLES.
The outlawed pirate of one year was ---- the next to be a governor and his country's representative.
The imperial ensign, which full high ----ed, Shone like a meteor streaming in the wind.
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PROPITIATION (page 291).
QUESTIONS.
1. What did _atonement_ originally denote? What is its present theological and popular sense? 2. What does _expiation_ signify? _propitiation_? _satisfaction_?
EXAMPLES.
---- has respect to the bearing which satisfaction has upon sin or the sinner. ---- has respect to the effect of satisfaction in removing the judicial displeasure of God.
When a man has been guilty of any sin or folly, I think the best ---- he can make is to warn others not to fall into the like.
Redemption implies the complete deliverance from the penalty, power, and all the consequences of sin; ---- is used in the sense of the sacrificial work, whereby the redemption from the condemning power of the law was insured.
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PROPOSAL (page 291).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does an _offer_ or _proposal_ do? 2. What does a _proposition_ set forth? 3. For what is the _proposition_ designed? the _proposal_? 4. In what way does _proposition_ come to have nearly the sense of _proposal_ in certain uses? 5. What is a _bid_? 6. What does an _overture_ accomplish? In what special application is the word commonly used?
EXAMPLES.
Garrison emphatically declared, "I can not listen to any ---- for a gradual abolition of wickedness."
The theme in confirmation must always admit of being expressed in a logical ----, with subject, predicate, and copula.
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PROPOSE (page 292).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _propose_ in its most frequent use differ from _purpose_? 2. How is _propose_ used so as to be nearly equivalent to _purpose_? What important difference appears in this latter use?
EXAMPLES.
I know, indeed, the evil of that I ----, but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.
Man ----s, but God disposes.
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PROTRACT (page 293).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _protract_? 2. What is the significance of _defer_ and _delay_, and how do these words differ in usage from _protract_? 3. How does _elongate_ differ from _protract_? 4. Is _protract_ ordinarily favorable or unfavorable in sense? 5. Is _continue_ favorable or unfavorable?
EXAMPLES.
Unseen hands ---- The coming of what oft seems close in ken.
Burton, a hypochondriac, wrote the "Anatomy of Melancholy," that marvel of learning, and ---- his life to the age of sixty-four.
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PROVERB (page 293).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what do the _proverb_ and the _adage_ agree? In what respects do they differ? 2. What is an _apothegm_? an _aphorism_? How do these two words differ? 3. What is a _dictum_? a _saying_? 4. What is a _precept_? How does it differ from a _motto_ or _maxim_? 5. How do _motto_ and _maxim_ differ from each other?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.
Books, like ----s, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed.
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PRUDENCE (page 294).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the definition of _prudence_? 2. How does _providence_ differ from _prudence_? 3. How does _care_ compare with _prudence_ and _providence_? 4. How is _frugality_ related to _prudence_? 5. How do _foresight_ and _forethought_ compare with each other, and both with _providence_?
EXAMPLES.
When desp'rate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and ---- folly.
With a ---- unknown in other parts of Scotland, the peasantry have in most places planted orchards around their cottages.
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PURCHASE (page 295).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is _purchase_ derived? 2. From what is _buy_ derived? 3. How do _buy_ and _purchase_ agree in meaning? What single definition would answer for either? 4. How do _buy_ and _purchase_ differ in use? Give instances.
EXAMPLES.
I'll give thee England's treasure, Enough to ---- such another island, So thou wilt make me live.
'Tis gold which ----s admittance.
---- the truth, and sell it not.
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PURE (page 296).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _pure_ signify? 2. In what sense are material substances said to be _pure_? 3. What does _pure_ denote in moral and religious use? 4. How does _pure_ compare with _innocent_? with _virtuous_?
EXAMPLES.
Water from melted snow is ----r than rain-water, as it descends through the air in a solid form, incapable of absorbing atmospheric gases.
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds ---- and quiet take That for a hermitage.
In every place incense shall be offered unto my name and a ---- offering, saith the Lord of hosts.
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QUEER (page 297).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _odd_? _singular_? Are _odd_ and _singular_ precise equivalents? 2. When is a thing called _strange_? 3. What is the primary meaning of _peculiar_? With what implication is it now commonly used? 4. What is the meaning of _eccentric_? How does it differ in use from _odd_ or _queer_? 5. How does _erratic_ compare with _eccentric_? 6. What is the primary meaning of _queer_? its common meaning? 7. What is the significance of _quaint_? _grotesque_?
EXAMPLES.
A ----, shy man was this pastor--a sort of living mummy, dried up and bleached by Icelandic snows.
In setting a hen, says Grose, the good women hold it an indispensable rule to put an ---- number of eggs.
Only a man of undoubted genius can afford to be ----.
The ---- architecture of these medieval towns has a strange fascination.
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QUICKEN (page 297).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _accelerate_? to _despatch_? 2. What does the verb _speed_ signify? _hasten_? _hurry_? What does _hurry_ suggest in addition to the meaning of _hasten_?
EXAMPLES.
The motion of a falling body is continually ----ed.
The muster-place is Lanrick mead! ---- forth the signal! Norman, ----!
The pulsations of the heart are ----ed by exertion.
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QUOTE (page 298).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _cite_ differ from _quote_? 2. What is it to _paraphrase_? to _plagiarize_?
EXAMPLES.
A great man ---- bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.
The Devil can ---- Scripture for his purpose.
To appropriate others' thoughts or words mechanically and without credit is to ----.
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RACY (page 299).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _racy_ in the first instance refer? _pungent_? 2. How does _piquant_ differ from _pungent_? 3. How are these words and the word _spicy_ used in reference to literary products?
EXAMPLES.
Pure mother English, ---- and fresh with idiomatic graces.
The atmosphere was strangely impregnated with the ---- odor of burning peat.
The spruce, the cedar, and the juniper, with their balsamic breath, filled the air with a ---- fragrance.
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RADICAL (page 299).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the primary meaning of _radical_? 2. What contrasted senses are derived from this primary meaning?
EXAMPLES.
Timidity is a ---- defect in a reformer.
Social and political leaders look to vested interests, and hence are inclined to regard all ---- measures as ----.
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RARE (page 300).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _unique_? Can any one of a number of things of the same kind be _unique_? 2. What is the primary meaning of _rare_? What added sense is often blended with this primary meaning? 3. Is _extraordinary_ favorable or unfavorable in meaning?
EXAMPLES.
Nothing is so ---- as time.
That which gives to the Jews their ---- position among the nations is what we are accustomed to regard as their sacred history.
And what is so ---- as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
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REACH (page 300).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _reach_ in the sense here considered? 2. What is it to _arrive_? 3. What does _attain_ add to the meaning of _arrive_? What does _gain_ add?
EXAMPLES.
And grasping down the boughs I ----ed the shore.
He gathered the ripe nuts in the fall, And berries that grew by fence and wall So high she could not ---- them at all.
The heights by great men ----ed and kept Were not ----ed by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
It is only in this way that we can hope to ---- at truth.
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REAL (page 301).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _real_ derived? What does it mean? 2. From what is the _real_ distinguished? 3. To what is _actual_ opposed? 4. What shades of difference may be pointed out between the four words _actual_, _real_, _developed_, and _positive_?
EXAMPLES.
In ---- life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
If there was any trouble, ---- or impending, affecting those she had served, her place was with them.
This was regarded as proof ---- of conspiracy.
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REASON, _v._ (page 302).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _reason_ about a matter? 2. From what is _argue_ derived, and what does it mean? 3. What is it to _demonstrate_? to _prove_? How do these two words agree and differ?
EXAMPLES.
There are two ways of reaching truth: by ----ing it out and by feeling it out.
In ----ing, too, the person owned his skill, For e'en tho vanquished, he could ---- still.
A matter of fact may be ----ed by adequate evidence; only a mathematical proposition can be ----ed.
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REASON, _n._ (page 302).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _cause_ differ from _reason_ in the strict sense of each of the two words? 2. How is _reason_ often used so as to be a partial equivalent of _cause_?
EXAMPLES.
No one is at liberty to speak ill of another without a justifiable ----, even tho he knows he is speaking truth.
I am not only witty myself, but the ---- that wit is in other men.
Necessity is the ---- of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Alas! how light a ---- may move Dissension between hearts that love!
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REASONING (page 303).
QUESTIONS.
1. What do _argumentation_ and _debate_ ordinarily imply? 2. How does _reasoning_ differ from both the above words in this respect? 3. To what kind of _reasoning_ were _argument_ and _argumentation_ formerly restricted? How widely are the words now applied? 4. How do _argument_ and _argumentation_ compare with _reasoning_ as regards logical form?
EXAMPLES.
All ----, Inductive or Deductive, is a reaching of the unknown through the known; and where nothing unknown is reached there is no ----.
Early at Bus'ness, and at Hazard late, Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a ----.
If thou continuest to take delight in idle ----, thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but never know how to live with men.
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REFINEMENT (page 305).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does _civilization_ apply, and what does it denote? 2. What is _refinement_? 3. What is the primary meaning of _cultivation_? the derived meaning? 4. By what word is _cultivation_ now largely superseded? 5. What does _culture_ denote?
EXAMPLES.
What is ----? It is the humanization of man in society, the satisfaction for him in society of the true law of human nature.
Giving up wrong pleasure is not self-sacrifice, but self-----.
This refined taste is the consequence of education and habit; we are born only with a capacity of entertaining this ----.
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RELIABLE (page 306).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is to be said of the controversy regarding the formation and use of the word _reliable_? 2. What do _trusty_ and _trustworthy_ denote? 3. How does _reliable_ compare with these words? 4. What meaning may _reliable_ convey that _trusty_ and _trustworthy_ would not?
EXAMPLES.
Good lack! quoth he, yet bring it me My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my ---- sword, When I do exercise.
The first voyage to America, of which we have any perfectly ---- account, was performed by the Norsemen.
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RELIGION (page 307).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original sense of _piety_? the derived sense? 2. What is _religion_? What does it include? 3. What is _worship_? _devotion_? 4. What is _morality_? _godliness_? _holiness_? 5. How is _theology_ related to _religion_?
EXAMPLES.
---- is man's belief in a being or beings, mightier than himself and inaccessible to his senses, but not indifferent to his sentiments and actions, with the feelings and practises which flow from such belief.
----, whose soul sincere Fears God, and knows no other fear.
To deny the freedom of the will is to make ---- impossible.
Systematic ---- may be defined as the substance of the Christian faith in a scientific form.
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REND (page 309).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what are _rend_ and _tear_ usually applied? Which is the stronger word? 2. In what connection is _rive_ used, and in what sense? 3. What does _lacerate_ signify? 4. How does _mangle_ compare with _lacerate_? 5. What do _burst_ and _rupture_ signify? Which is the stronger word? When is a steam-boiler said to be _ruptured_? 6. What does _rip_ signify?
EXAMPLES.
Storms do not ---- the sail that is furled.
Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow ---- a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.
And now a bubble ----s, and now a world.
The first blood shed in the revolutionary struggle; a mere drop in amount, but a deluge in its effects, ----ing the colonies forever from the mother country.
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RENOUNCE (page 309).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _renounce_ derived, and in what sense used? _recant_? _retract_? 2. What is it to _discard_? 3. How does _revoke_ compare with _recall_ in original meaning and in present use? 4. What is the derivation and the distinctive meaning of _abjure_? 5. In what sense is _repudiate_ used?
EXAMPLES.
On his knees, with his hand on the Bible, Galileo was compelled to ---- and curse the doctrine of the movement of the earth.
He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, ---- earth to forfeit heaven.
He had no spiritual adviser, no human comforter, and was entirely in the hands of those who were determined that he should ---- or die.
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REPENTANCE (page 310).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _regret_? 2. What does _penitence_ add to _regret_? 3. How does _repentance_ surpass the meaning of _penitence_, _regret_, _sorrow_, etc.? 4. What is _compunction_? _contrition_? 5. What is _remorse_, and how does it compare with _repentance_?
EXAMPLES.
What then? what rests? Try what ---- can: what can it not?
Forgive me, Valentine, if hearty ---- Be a sufficient ransom for offense, I tender't here.
So writhes the mind ---- has riven, Unmeet for earth, undoomed to heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.
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REPROOF (page 311).
QUESTIONS.
1. Are _blame_, _censure_, and _disapproval_ spoken or silent? 2. Are _comment_, _criticism_, _rebuke_, _reflection_, _reprehension_, and _reproof_ expressed or not? 3. How of _admonition_ and _animadversion_? 4. Are _comment_ and _criticism_ favorable or unfavorable? Do they imply superiority on the part of commentator or critic? 5. Do _reflection_ and _reprehension_ imply such superiority? How are these two words discriminated? 6. What does _rebuke_ literally signify? To what kind of person is a _rebuke_ administered? 7. To what kind of person is _reproof_ administered? 8. What do _rebuke_ and _reproof_ imply on the part of him who administers them? 9. What is _animadversion_? _admonition_?
EXAMPLES.
A ---- is intolerable when it is administered out of pride or hatred.
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful ---- of a friend.
Open ---- is better than secret love.
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REPROVE (page 312).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _censure_? to _reprove_? to _reprimand_ 2. How does _admonish_ compare with the other words in the group? Is its reference to the past or to the future? 3. What is it to _reproach_? Does this word imply authority or superiority? 4. What is the force of _expostulate_ and _remonstrate_?
EXAMPLES.
He that oppresseth the poor ----eth his Maker.
Her answer ----ed me; for she said, "I never ask their crimes, for we have all come short."
Moses was ----ed of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, see, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
This witness is true. Therefore ---- them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.
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REST (page 313).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _ease_? _quiet_? _rest_? 2. What is _recreation_, and how is it related to _rest_? 3. What is _repose_ in the primary, and what in the derived, sense? 4. How does _repose_ compare with _rest_? 5. What is a _pause_? 6. How does _sleep_ compare with _repose_ and _rest_?
EXAMPLES.
Seek out, less often sought than found, A soldier's grave--for thee the best; Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy ----.
Her manners had not that ---- That stamps the cast of Vere de Vere.
Shall I not take mine ---- in mine inn?
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RESTRAIN (page 315).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _restrain_? 2. How does _constrain_ differ from _restrain_? 3. How does _restrain_ differ from _restrict_? 4. How does _repress_ compare with _restrain_? _suppress_?
EXAMPLES.
The English Puritans, ----ed at home, fled for freedom to America.
In no political system is it so necessary to ---- the powers of the government as in a democratic state.
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REVENGE (page 316).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _revenge_? 2. How does _retaliation_ compare with _revenge_? 3. What did _vengeance_ formerly mean, and what does it now imply? 4. What is a _requital_? 5. How do _avenging_ and _retribution_ differ from _retaliation_, _revenge_, and _vengeance_? 6. What difference may be noted between _avenging_ and _retribution_?
EXAMPLES.
According to the wish of Sulla himself, ... his monument was erected in the Campus Martius, bearing an inscription composed by himself: "No friend ever did me a kindness, no enemy a wrong, without receiving full ----."
By the spirit of ----, as we sometimes express it, we generally understand a disposition, not merely to return suffering for suffering, but to inflict a degree of pain on the person who is supposed to have injured us, beyond what strict justice requires.
In all great religions we find one God, and in all, personal immortality with ----.
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REVOLUTION (page 317).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential idea of _revolution_? 2. Does a _revolution_ necessarily involve war? 3. What is _anarchy_? _insubordination_? _sedition_? _revolt_? _rebellion_? 4. How does _rebellion_ differ from _revolution_? 5. By what class of persons is _insurrection_ made? _mutiny_?
EXAMPLES.
----s are not made; they come.
---- to tyrants is obedience to God.
Since government is of God, ---- must be contrary to his will.
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REVOLVE (page 318).
QUESTIONS.
1. When is a body said to _roll_? to _rotate_? to _revolve_? 2. In what sense may the earth be said to _revolve_? and in what sense to _rotate_? 3. What are some of the extended uses of _roll_? 4. What kind of a word is _turn_, and what is its meaning?
EXAMPLES.
Any bright star close by the pole is seen to ---- in a very small circle whose center is the pole itself.
The sun ----s on an axis in the same direction in which the planets ---- in their orbits.
Human nature can never rest; once in motion it ----s like the stone of Sisyphus every instant when the resisting force is suspended.
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RIGHT (page 319).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _right_? Is it general or special? 2. What is a _privilege_? an _exemption_? an _immunity_? 3. What is a _franchise_? a _prerogative_?
EXAMPLES.
Friendship gives no ---- to make ourselves disagreeable.
All men are created equal, and endowed with certain inalienable ----s.
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RUSTIC (page 321).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what are _rural_ and _rustic_ alike derived? How do the two words agree in general signification? How are they discriminated in use? 2. What is the meaning of _pastoral_? of _bucolic_?
EXAMPLES.
How still the morning of the hallowed day! Mute is the voice of ---- labor, hush'd The plowboy's whistle and the milkmaid's song.
The ---- arbor which the summit crowned Was woven of shining smilax, trumpet-vine, Clematis, and the wild white eglantine.
When hunting tribes begin to domesticate animals, they enter usually upon the ---- stage.
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SACRAMENT (page 321).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a religious _service_ in the extended sense? 2. What is a _sacrament_? 3. What is an _observance_? an _ordinance_? 4. How do _sacrament_ and _ordinance_ differ? 5. What is a _rite_?
EXAMPLES.
Religion will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ----s.
Nothing tends more to unite men's hearts than joining together in the same prayers and ----s.
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SALE (page 323).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _change_ or _exchange_? 2. What is _barter_? _sale_? 3. What is a _bargain_ in the strict sense? 4. What is _trade_ in the broad and in the limited sense?
EXAMPLES.
Honor sits smiling at the ---- of truth.
I'll give thrice as much land to any well-deserving friend, But in the way of ----, mark ye me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made To coin a penny in the way of ----.
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SAMPLE (page 323).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _sample_? a _specimen_? 2. How do _sample_ and _specimen_ compare as indications of the quality of that which they respectively represent?
EXAMPLES.
There is, therefore, in this country, an implied warranty that the goods correspond to the ----.
Curzola is a perfect ---- of a Venetian town.
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SCHOLAR (page 324).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the primary sense of _scholar_? the derived sense? 2. What does _pupil_ signify? How is it technically used in educational work? 3. In what sense is _student_ employed?
EXAMPLES.
The accent or turn of expression of a single sentence will at once mark a ----.
The State of New York supplies all needed text-books free of charge to the ----s in the public schools.
The ----s in American colleges have taken up athletics with intense enthusiasm.
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SCIENCE (page 325).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _science_ compare with _knowledge_? 2. How does _art_ compare with _science_? 3. What two senses of _art_ must be discriminated from each other? 4. In which sense is _art_ a system of rules? 5. In which sense does _art_ transcend rule?
EXAMPLES.
Beethoven took his ---- as seriously as a saint and martyr takes his religion.
Modern ---- may be regarded as one vast miracle, whether we view it in relation to the Almighty Being, by whom its objects and its laws were formed, or to the feeble intellect of man, by which its depths have been sounded, and its mysteries explored.
Printing has been aptly termed the ---- preservative of all other ----s.
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SECURITY (page 326).
QUESTIONS.
1. Of what kind of value or property must an _earnest_ consist? 2. How do _pledge_ and _security_ differ from _earnest_? 3. How does _security_ differ from _pledge_? 4. What is _bail_? _gage_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- for a national or state debt is the honesty of its people.
The surest ---- of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
And for an ---- of a greater honor, He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor.
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SENSATION (page 328).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _sensation_? a _perception_? 2. How does an _emotion_ differ from a _sensation_? 3. How does the popular term _feeling_ compare with _sensation_ and _emotion_? 4. What is a _sense_?
EXAMPLES.
But ----, in the technical and limited sense of the term, is appropriated to the knowledge of material objects, and of the external world. This knowledge is gained or acquired by means of the ----s, and hence, to be more exact, we call it sensible ----, or, more briefly, sense ----.
----s sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart.
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SENSIBILITY (page 328).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _sensibility_ in the philosophical sense? in popular use? 2. What does _sensitiveness_ denote? 3. What is _susceptibility_? How does it compare with _sensitiveness_? 4. How are _susceptibility_ and _sensitiveness_ discriminated in physics?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of the external surface of the body is a special endowment adapted to the elements around and calculated to protect the interior parts from injury.
---- to pleasure is of necessity also ---- to pain.
Every mind is in a peculiar state of ---- to certain impressions.
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SEVERE (page 329).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _severe_? _rigid_? _strict_? 2. How does _rigorous_ compare with _rigid_? 3. What does _austere_ signify? What element is always found in an _austere_ character?
EXAMPLES.
In mathematics we arrive at certitude by ---- demonstration.
He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as ----.
---- law is often ---- injustice.
By ---- adherence to truth in official dealing with the natives, the English have come to be always believed in India.
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SHELTER, _v._ (page 331).
QUESTIONS.
1. When is anything said to be _covered_? 2. How does _shelter_ compare with _cover_? 3. What does _defend_ signify? 4. What does _guard_ imply? 5. How does _protect_ surpass _guard_ and _defend_? 6. What does _shield_ signify? How does it compare with _guard_ or _defend_? 7. In what sense is the verb _harbor_ commonly used?
EXAMPLES.
He that ----eth his sins shall not prosper, but he that forsaketh them shall find mercy.
Thou who trod'st the billowy sea, ---- us in our jeopardy!
In youth it ----ed me, And I'll protect it now.
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SIN (page 332).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _sin_? 2. How is _transgression_ discriminated from _sin_ in the general sense? 3. What is _crime_? _guilt_? _depravity_?
EXAMPLES.
Commit The oldest ----s the newest kind of ways.
---- is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
How ---- once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
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SKETCH (page 334).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _sketch_? How does it compare with _outline_? 2. In what special connection are _draft_ and _plan_ used? 3. How does a mechanical _drawing_ differ from a _draft_? 4. What is a _design_? How does it exceed the meaning of _drawing_? 5. What is an _outline_ in written composition? How does a _sketch_ in this sense compare with an _outline_? 6. What is an _outline_ of a sermon technically called? 7. What is a lawyer's _brief_? How does it compare with an _outline_ or _sketch_?
EXAMPLES.
A ---- that is without vigor, and in which the anatomy has not been defined, is a bad foundation for a good picture.
A little model the master wrought, Which should be to the larger ---- What the child is to the man.
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SKILFUL (page 335).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does _skilful_ signify? 2. How does _dexterous_ compare with _skilful_? 3. How does a _skilled_ compare with a _skilful_ workman?
EXAMPLES.
So ---- seamen ken the land from far, Which shows like mists to the dull passenger.
Thousands of ---- workmen are thrown into enforced idleness by the strikes and lockouts of every year.
Much that has been received as the work of disembodied spirits has been but the ---- sleight of hand of spirits embodied.
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SLANDER (page 336).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _slander_? to _defame_? to _libel_? 2. When is _defame_ equivalent to _slander_? When is it equivalent to _libel_? 3. What is it to _asperse_? to _malign_? to _traduce_? to _disparage_? 4. How do _slander_ and _libel_ differ in legal signification from the other words? 5. Which words of the group apply to open attack in one's presence, and which to attack in his absence?
EXAMPLES.
----ed to death by villains That dare as well answer a man, indeed, As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.
If the Scriptures seem to ---- knowledge, it is the knowledge that despises virtue.
Challenging each recreant doubter Who ----ed her spotless name.
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SLANG (page 336).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _colloquialism_? 2. What is _slang_ in the primary and ordinary sense? in special senses? 3. What is a _vulgarism_? 4. What is _cant_ in the sense here considered?
EXAMPLES.
There is a ---- bred of vileness that is never redeemed; there is also a ---- that is the vigorous utterance of uncultured wit, that fills a gap in the language and mounts ultimately to the highest places.
A ---- is worse than ----, because it bears the ineffaceable stamp of ignorance.
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SOCIALISM (page 338).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _socialism_? What term do many of its advocates prefer? 2. What is _communism_? _anarchism_?
EXAMPLES.
---- in its full sense means the abolition of inheritance, the abolition of the family, the abolition of nationalities, the abolition of religion, the abolition of property.
----, in some modified form, is steadily making its way among thinking men under the guise of cooperation.
---- is the offspring of sore hearts and shallow brains. It is the wisdom of the man who burned down his house because his chimney smoked.
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SPONTANEOUS (page 340).
QUESTIONS.
1. When is anything properly said to be _spontaneous_? _voluntary_? _involuntary_? 2. How do _voluntary_ and _involuntary_ compare with each other? both with _spontaneous_?
EXAMPLES.
---- is opposed to reflective. Those operations of mind which are continually going on without any effort or intention on our part are _spontaneous_.
No action that is not ---- has any merit.
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SPY (page 340).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what are the _spy_ and the _scout_ alike? 2. In what do they differ? 3. What are their respective rights in case of capture? 4. What is an _emissary_?
EXAMPLES.
A daring ---- of General Stuart made his way to my quarters, and informed me that General Imboden had planned an attack upon the town.
I had grown uneasy in regard to the disjointed situation of our army and, to inform myself of what was going on, determined to send a ---- into the enemy's lines.
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STATE, _v._ (page 341).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _state_ derived? What does it mean? 2. What is the significance of _assert_? What element is prominent in this word? 3. What is the relative force of _affirm_ and _assert_? _asseverate_? _aver_? _assure_? 4. What does _affirm_ signify in legal use, and how does it differ from _swear_? 5. What is it to _certify_? 6. What does _vindicate_ signify?
EXAMPLES.
The first condition of intelligent debate is that the question be clearly ----ed.
We ---- that the sciences dispose themselves round two great axes of thought, parallel and not unrelated, yet distinct--the natural sciences held together by the one, the moral by the other.
It is impossible for the mind to ---- anything of that of which it knows nothing.
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STORM (page 343).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential meaning of _storm_? 2. What is a _tempest_?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- is hard at hand will sweep away Thrones, churches, ranks, traditions, customs, marriage.
Were any considerable mass of air to be suddenly transferred from beyond the tropics to the equator, the difference of the rotatory velocity proper to the two situations would be so great as to produce not merely a wind, but a ---- of the most destructive violence.
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STORY (page 343).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _story_? Is it true or false? 2. What is an _anecdote_? a _narrative_ or _narration_?
EXAMPLES.
There are ----, common to the different branches of the Aryan stock.... They are ancient Aryan ----, ... older than the Odyssey, older than the dispersion of the Aryan race.
----s are relations of detached, interesting particulars.
Fairy ----s have for children an inexhaustible charm.
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SUBJECTIVE (page 345).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _subjective_? of _objective_? 2. How are these words illustrated in the case of a mountain? 3. What matters are purely _subjective_? 4. What matters are purely _objective_? 5. What is meant by saying that an author has a _subjective_ or an _objective_ style?
EXAMPLES.
Subject therefore, denotes the mind itself; and ----, that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the thinking subject. Object is a term for that about which the knowing subject is conversant, ... while ---- means that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the object known, and not from the subject knowing; and thus denotes what is real, in opposition to what is ideal,--what exists in nature, in contrast to what exists merely in the thought of the individual.
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SUGGESTION (page 347).
QUESTIONS.
1. In what way does a _suggestion_ bring a matter before the mind? 2. What is an _intimation_? a _hint_? 3. What are the special characteristics of _insinuation_ and _innuendo_?
EXAMPLES.
Behold in the bloom of apples, And the violets in the sward, A ---- of the old, lost beauty Of the garden of the Lord!
Time is truly the comforter, at once lessening the tendency to ---- of images of sorrow, and softening that very sorrow when the images arise.
An ---- is cowardly because it can seldom be directly answered, and the one who makes it can always retreat behind an assumed misconstruction of his words; but the ---- is the stab in the back, sneaking as it is malicious.
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SUPERNATURAL (page 347).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the original meaning of _supernatural_? of _preternatural_? 2. What is commonly implied in the use of _preternatural_? 3. In what sense do some hold a miracle to be _supernatural_? What descriptive term would others prefer? 4. What is the meaning of _superhuman_? In what secondary sense is it often used?
EXAMPLES.
It was something altogether ----, as when God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.
With an imagination of intense vividness and ---- activity, Choate was as practical as the most sordid capitalist that ever became an "incarnation of fat dividends."
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SUPPORT (page 348).
QUESTIONS.
1. What do _support_ and _sustain_ alike signify? 2. How does _sustain_ surpass _support_ in meaning and force? 3. What is the force and use of _bear_ in this connection? 4. What is it to _maintain_? 5. How does _maintain_ compare with _support_ as to fulness and as to dignity? 6. What is it to _prop_? What is the limit upon the meaning of this word?
EXAMPLES.
And Cain said, My punishment is great than I can ----.
You take my house when you do take the prop That doth ---- my house.
Can a soul like mine, Unus'd to power, and form'd for humbler scenes, ---- the splendid miseries of greatness?
While less expert, tho stronger far, The Gael ----ed unequal war.
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SUPPOSE (page 348).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _suppose_? 2. How does _conjecture_ differ from _suppose_? 3. What does _think_ signify in the sense here considered? How does it compare with _conjecture_ or _suppose_?
EXAMPLES.
Newton ----ed that if the earth were to be so compressed as to be absolutely without pores, its dimensions might not exceed a cubic inch.
Let it not be ----ed that principles and opinions always go together.
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SYNONYMOUS (page 349).
QUESTIONS.
1. Are there any _synonymous_ words in the strict sense of the term? 2. What is meant by _synonymous_ words? 3. What are the two common faults with reference to _synonymous_ words or _synonyms_?
EXAMPLES.
The great source of a loose style is the injudicious use of those words termed ----.
To raise, with fitting observances, over the ruins of the historic fortress [Sumter] the ---- flag which had waved over it during its first bombardment.
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SYSTEM (page 350).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _order_, in the sense here considered? 2. What does _method_ denote? 3. What is a _system_? 4. To what does _manner_ refer? 5. To what does _regularity_ apply? 6. Can there be _order_ without _regularity_ or _regularity_ without _order_, and how?
EXAMPLES.
If this be madness, there is ---- in it.
A ---- is ... an organized body of truth, or truths arranged under one and the same idea, which idea is as the life or soul which assimilates all those truths.
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TEACH (page 353).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _teach_? 2. How does _instruct_ surpass _teach_ in signification? 3. What secondary sense has _instruct_? 4. What is the full meaning of _educate_? 5. What is it to _train_? 6. To what is _train_ commonly applied where _educate_ could not well be used? 7. What is it to _discipline_? 8. What does _nurture_ signify, and how does it compare with _educate_?
EXAMPLES.
Plato returned to Athens and began to ----; like his master, he ---- without money and without price.
For the most effective mechanical work both mind and hand must be ----ed in childhood.
The Highlanders flocking to him from all quarters, though ill-armed, and worse ----ed, made him undervalue any enemy who, he thought, was yet to encounter him.
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TERM (page 354).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the literal meaning of _term_? 2. Is this meaning retained in the figurative uses of the word? 3. What are the _articles_ of a contract? the _terms_ of a contract? 4. What is a _condition_? 5. What is a _term_ in the logical sense? 6. How does _term_ in ordinary use compare with _word_, _expression_, or _phrase_?
EXAMPLES.
For beauty's acme hath a ---- as brief As the wave's poise before it break in pearl.
But what are these moral sermons [of Seneca]? ----s, nothing but ----s.
The very ---- miser is a confession of the misery which attends avarice.
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TERSE (page 354).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _short_ or _brief_? 2. What is the derivation and meaning of _concise_? of _condensed_? of _compendious_? 3. What is the derivation and meaning of _succinct_? of _terse_? 4. What is the force of _summary_? 5. What is a _sententious_ style? a _pithy_ utterance?
EXAMPLES.
With all his lucidity of statement, Hamilton was not always ----.
In most cases it will be found that the Victorian idiom is clearer, but less ---- than the corresponding Elizabethan idiom which it has supplanted.
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TESTIMONY (page 355).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _testimony_? 2. How does it compare with _evidence_? 3. How does a _deposition_ differ from an _affidavit_?
EXAMPLES.
The word ----, in legal acceptation, includes all the means by which any alleged matter of fact, the truth of which is submitted to us for investigation, is established or disproved.
As to the fruits of Sodom, fair without, full of ashes within, I saw nothing of them, tho from the ---- we have, something of this kind has been produced.
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TIME (page 356).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what do _sequence_ and _succession_ apply? 2. What does _time_ denote? How is it conceived of with reference to events? 3. How do _duration_ and _succession_ compare with _time_?
EXAMPLES.
Every event remembered is remembered as having happened in ---- past. This gives us the idea in the concrete.... We can now, by a process of abstraction, separate the ---- from the event, and we have the abstract idea of _time_.
The ---- of each earthquake is measured generally only by seconds, or even parts of a second.
It has been conjectured that our idea of ---- is founded upon the conscious ---- of sensations and ideas in our own minds.
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TOOL (page 358).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a _tool_? 2. How does _instrument_ compare in meaning with _tool_? 3. What special _tools_ are ordinarily called _instruments_? 4. What is an _implement_? 5. What is a _utensil_? In what special relations is the word used? 6. What is an _appliance_? How does _appliance_ compare with _tool_? 7. What is a _mechanism_? 8. What is a _machine_ in the most general sense? in the technical and common use? 9. What is an _apparatus_? 10. Which of these words have figurative use? 11. How are _instrument_ and _tool_ contrasted in figurative use?
EXAMPLES.
The time is coming when the ----s of husbandry shall supplant the weapons of war.
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural ----s, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt.
The pick, stone-saw, wedge, chisel, and other ----s were already in use when the pyramids were built.
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TOPIC (page 359).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _topic_ derived, and with what meaning? 2. How is _question_ used in a similar sense, and why? 3. Is the general _subject_ or _theme_ properly known as the _topic_? To what is that name more appropriately given?
EXAMPLES.
My father ... always took care to start some ingenious or useful ---- of discourse, which might tend to improve the minds of his children.
One of the most important rules in a deliberative assembly is, that every speaker shall speak to the ----.
The ---- of the Iliad is not the war of Troy, but the wrath of Achilles exhibited during and in connection with the war of Troy.
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TRANSACT, TRANSACTION (page 360).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _transact_ differ from _do_? 2. How does _transact_ differ from _treat_ and _negotiate_? 3. How does _negotiate_ compare with _treat_? 4. How do _transactions_ differ from _proceedings_?
EXAMPLES.
In the first Parliament of James the House of Commons refused for the first time to ---- business on a Sunday.
The treaty of peace that closed the war of 1812 had been already ---- before the battle of New Orleans was fought.
Any direction of Christ or any direction or act of his apostles respecting the ---- of business in the church, is binding upon us, unless such direction or act was grounded upon peculiar circumstances then existing.
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TRANSIENT (page 361).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation of _transient_ and _transitory_? 2. How does _transient_ differ in signification from _transitory_? 3. What is the distinctive meaning of _temporary_? 4. From what is _ephemeral_ derived, and with what sense? 5. How does _ephemeral_ differ from _transient_ or _transitory_? 6. What does _ephemeral_ suggest besides brevity of time? 7. What is the derivation and meaning of _fugitive_? 8. What is the distinctive meaning of _evanescent_?
EXAMPLES.
Mirth is short and ----, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.
Neither gratitude nor revenge had any share in determining his [Charles II.'s] course; for never was there a mind on which both services and injuries left such faint and ---- impressions.
A ---- chairman is commonly appointed at the opening of a meeting to conduct proceedings till a permanent presiding officer shall be elected.
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UNION (page 362).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _unity_? 2. What is _union_? 3. How are _unity_ and _union_ contrasted? 4. When may _unity_ be predicated of that which is made up of parts?
EXAMPLES.
Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in ----.
Out of the ---- of Roman and Teutonic elements arose the modern world of Europe.
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UTILITY (page 363).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _utility_ derived, and what is its primary meaning? 2. How is _utility_ discriminated from _use_ and _usefulness_? 3. What is the derivation and primary meaning of _expediency_? 4. How are _expediency_ and _utility_ used as regards moral action? Which is the inferior word in such use? 5. How does _policy_ in such use compare with _expediency_ and _utility_?
EXAMPLES.
Principle is ever my motto, not ----.
Two words form the key of the Baconian doctrine, ---- and progress. The ancient philosophy disdained to be useful, and was content to be stationary.
Justice itself is the great standing ---- of civil society, and any departure from it, under any circumstances, rests under the suspicion of being no ---- at all.
The fundamental objection to the doctrine of ----, in all its modifications is that taken by Dr. Reid, viz., "that agreeableness and ---- are not moral conceptions, nor have they any connection with morality. What a man does merely because it is agreeable is not virtue."
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VACANT (page 363).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of _empty_? of _vacant_? 2. To what does _vacant_ especially refer? 3. What is the difference between an _empty_ house and a _vacant_ house? 4. What is the difference in dignity between the two words? 5. What is the significance of _void_ and _devoid_? 6. What does _waste_ imply? 7. In what sense is _vacuous_ used?
EXAMPLES.
---- heads console with ---- sound.
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind And the loud laugh that spoke the ---- mind.
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VENAL (page 365).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _venal_ derived, and with what meaning? _mercenary_? _hireling_? 2. How are _mercenary_ and _venal_ discriminated from _hireling_?
EXAMPLES.
The closing quarter of the nineteenth century may be termed the ---- era of American politics. Never before has legislation been so universally, so unscrupulously, and unblushingly for sale.
The body of Greeks, immortalized under the name of the Ten Thousand, ... though embarking on a foreign ---- service, were by no means outcasts, or even men of extreme poverty.
It is not the hire, but the working only for the hire that makes the ----.
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VENERATION (page 366).
QUESTIONS.
1. By what qualities is _awe_ inspired? 2. What elements are present and what lacking in _awe_? 3. What is _dread_ and by what aroused? 4. How do _reverence_ and _veneration_ differ from _awe_ or _dread_? 5. How does _adoration_ compare with _veneration_?
EXAMPLES.
Man craves an object of ----; and if not supplied with that which God has appointed, will take what offers.
The Italian climate robs age of its ----, and makes it look newer than it is.
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VENIAL (page 367).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is _venial_ derived, and what does it signify? 2. How does _venial_ compare with _pardonable_? 3. How does _excusable_ differ from the above words? 4. What very different word is sometimes confounded with _venial_?
EXAMPLES.
Theft on the part of a starving man is one of the most ---- of offenses.
Under all the circumstances, the error was ----.
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VERACITY (page 367).
QUESTIONS.
1. Do _truth_ and _verity_ apply to thought and speech or to persons? 2. To what does _veracity_ apply? _truthfulness_? 3. Into what two classes may the words in this group of synonyms be divided, and what words will be found in each class?
EXAMPLES.
On a certain confidence in the ---- of mankind is founded so much of the knowledge on which we constantly depend, that, without it, the whole system of human things would go into confusion.
If all the world and love were young, And ---- in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.
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VIRTUE (page 370).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the prominent idea in _virtue_? 2. How does _goodness_ differ from _virtue_? 3. Of what relations are _honesty_ and _probity_ used? 4. How is _honesty_ used in a sense higher than the commercial? 5. What, in the full sense, is _integrity_? 6. What is _honor_? 7. What is _purity_? _duty_? 8. What do _rectitude_ and _righteousness_ denote? 9. To what does _uprightness_ especially refer? 10. What is _virtuousness_?
EXAMPLES.
---- is the fruit of exertion; it supposes conquest of temptation.
In seeing that a thing is right, we see at the same time that it is our ---- to do it.
It is true that ---- is the best policy; but if this be the motive of honest dealing, there is no real ----.
Where is that chastity of ---- that felt a stain like a wound?
INDEX.
_abandon_, 1 " _renounce_, 309 " _surrender_, 349
abandoned, _addicted_, 19
_abase_, 2
_abash_, 3
_abate_, 3 " _abolish_, 6 " _alleviate_, 33
_abbreviation_, 4 " _abridgment_, 7
abdicate, _abandon_, 1
aberration, _insanity_, 221
_abet_, 4 " _help_, 195
abetter, _accessory_, 13
abettor, _accessory_, 13
_abhor_, 5
abhorrence, _abomination_, 7 " _antipathy_, 48 " _hatred_, 193
_abide_, 5 " _endure_, 150
abiding, _permanent_, 269
ability, _power_, 279
abject, _pitiful_, 273
abjure, _abandon_, 1 " _renounce_, 309
able, _adequate_, 21 " _clever_, 109 " _sagacious_, 322
abode, _home_, 201
_abolish_, 6 " _cancel_, 92
abominable, _criminal_, 120
abominate, _abhor_, 5
_abomination_, 7
aboriginal, _primeval_, 287
abortive, _vain_, 364
abounding, _plentiful_, 276
aboveboard, _candid_, 93
abridge, _restrain_, 315
_abridgment_, 7 " _abbreviation_, 4
abrogate, _abolish_, 6 " _cancel_, 92
abrupt, _bluff_, 83 " _steep_, 342
absent, _abstracted_, 11
absent-minded, _abstracted_, 11
_absolute_, 8 " _infinite_, 216 " _perfect_, 268 " _pure_, 296
absolution, _pardon_, 262
_absolve_, 9 " _pardon_, 262
_absorb_, 9
absorbed, _abstracted_, 11
abstain, _cease_, 98
abstemiousness, _abstinence_, 10
_abstinence_, 10
_abstract_, _v._, 10
abstract, _n._, _abridgment_, 7
_abstracted_, 11
abstruse, _complex_, 112 " _mysterious_, 247 " _obscure_, 255
_absurd_, 11 " _incongruous_, 214
abundant, _large_, 229 " _plentiful_, 276
_abuse_, 12 " _abomination_, 7
abutting, _adjacent_, 22
accede, _agree_, 25
accelerate, _quicken_, 297
accept, _agree_, 25 " _assume_, 61 " _confess_, 114
acceptable, _delightful_, 126
accepted, _authentic_, 67
access, _entrance_, 154
accessible, _friendly_, 178
accession, _entrance_, 154
accessory, _a._, _auxiliary_, 67
_accessory_, _n._, 13 " _appendage_, 53
_accident_, 14 " _hazard_, 194
acclaim, _praise_, 280
acclamation, _praise_, 280
accompaniment, _appendage_, 53 " _circumstance_, 105
accompany, _follow_, 174
accomplice, _accessory_, 13 " _associate_, 60
accomplish, _attain_, 64 " _do_, 135 " _transact_, 360
accomplished, _polite_, 277 " _skilful_, 335
accomplishment, _act_, 16 " _end_, _n._, 148
accord, _v._, _agree_, 25
accord, _n._, _harmony_, 191
accordance, _harmony_, 191
accordingly, _therefore_, 355
accost, _address_, _v._, 19
account, _v._, _calculate_, 90
account, _n._, _history_, 200 " _reason_, _n._, 302 " _record_, 304 " _report_, 311 " _story_, 343
accountability, _duty_, 142
accouterments, _arms_, 55 " _caparison_, 93
accredited, _authentic_, 67
accumulate, _amass_, 38
accurate, _perfect_, 268
accuse, _arraign_, 56
accustomed, _addicted_, 19 " _usual_, 362
acerb, _bitter_, 81
acerbity, _acrimony_, 15
acetous, _bitter_, 81
ache, _pain_, 261
achieve, _attain_, 64 " _do_, 135 " _get_, 183 " _succeed_, 346
achievement, _act_, 16 " _career_, 95 " _end_, _n._, 148 " _victory_, 369 " _work_, 374
acid, _bitter_, 81
acidulated, _bitter_, 81
acidulous, _bitter_, 81
acknowledge, _avow_, 69 " _confess_, 114
acknowledgment, _apology_, 51
_acquaintance_, 15 " _knowledge_, 227
acquiesce, _agree_, 25
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_allude_, 36
_allure_, 37 " _draw_, 138 " _persuade_, 271
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_appendage_, 53
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_army_, 56 " _array_, 57
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_artist_, 58
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assiduous, _industrious_, 215
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as well as, _also_, 37
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awake, _vigilant_, 369
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_battle_, 74
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_bitter_, 81
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blasphemy, _oath_, 254
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_brutish_, 87
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_console_, 117
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_farewell_, 168
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_feminine_, 169
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_feud_, 170
_fiction_, 170 " _allegory_, 33
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_fierce_, 171
fiery, _fierce_, 171
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_fire_, 173
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flattery, _praise_, 280
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flippancy, _pertness_, 271
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_flock_, 173
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_fluctuate_, 173 " _shake_, 330
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_follow_, 174
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_food_, 175
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foolishness, _idiocy_, 207
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footpad, _robber_, 320
footprint, _trace_, 359
footstep, _trace_, 359
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forager, _robber_, 320
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foregoing, _previous_, 285
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formalism, _hypocrisy_, 204
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_formidable_, 176
form or system of government, _polity_, 278
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forthwith, _immediately_, 211
_fortification_, 176
_fortitude_, 176 " _patience_, 265
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_fortunate_, 177 " _happy_, 190
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fragment, _part_, 264
frame, _body_, 84 " _make_, 236
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_fraud_, 177 " _artifice_, 58 " _deception_, 123
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free-hearted, _generous_, 182
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freight, _load_, 233
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fresh, _new_, 252
fretful, _restive_, 314
fretfulness, _anger_, 44 " _anxiety_, 49
fretting, _anxiety_, 49
friend, _associate_, 60
friendliness, _friendship_, 179
_friendly_, 178 " _propitious_, 291
_friendship_, 179 " _acquaintance_, 15 " _association_, 60 " _attachment_, 63 " _love_, 235
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_frighten_, 180
frightful, _awful_, 70
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frolic, _entertainment_, 153
frolicsome, _airy_, 27
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_frugality_, 180 " _abstinence_, 10 " _prudence_, 294
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frustrate, _hinder_, 199
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function, _duty_, 142
fundamental, _radical_, 299
funds, _money_, 244
funny, _queer_, 297
furious, _fierce_, 171
furnish, _give_, 185
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fusion, _alliance_, 34
futile, _vain_, 364
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gage, _security_, 326
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gallantry, _prowess_, 294
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garb, _dress_, 140
gardening, _agriculture_, 25
garments, _dress_, 140
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_garrulous_, 181
gas, _fluid_, 174
gate, _entrance_, 154
gateway, _entrance_, 154
gather, _amass_, 38 " _convoke_, 120
gathering, _company_, 110
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gawky, _awkward_, 70
gay, _airy_, 27 " _happy_, 190
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_gender_, 181
_general_, 181 " _usual_, 362
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_generous_, 182 " _plentiful_, 276
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_genius_, 183 " _character_, 102
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gentleness, _mercy_, 239
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_get_, 183 " _attain_, 64 " _make_, 236 " _purchase_, 295
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gibe, _sneer_, 337
_gift_, 184 " _subsidy_, 345
gifted, _clever_, 109
gigantic, _large_, 229
gild, _adorn_, 23
girlish, _youthful_, 375
_give_, 185 " _allot_, 34 " _convey_, 119 " _surrender_, 349
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give lessons, _teach_, 353
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given over _or_ up, _addicted_, 19
give notice of, _announce_, 46
give oneself up, _surrender_, 349
give out, _announce_, 46
give over, _cease_, 98 " _surrender_, 349
give up, _abandon_, 1 " _surrender_, 349
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gladness, _happiness_, 189
glance, _look_, 234
glare, _light_, 231
glaring, _evident_, 159
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gleaming, _light_, 231
glimmer, _light_, 231
glistening, _light_, 231
glistering, _light_, 231
glitter, _light_, 231
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gloss over, _palliate_, 261
glow, _light_, 231
glowing, _eager_, 142
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glutinous, _adhesive_, 22
goal, _aim_, 26 " _end_, _n._, 148
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go astray, _wander_, 371
godliness, _religion_, 307
gold, _money_, 244
good, _honest_, 202 " _profit_, 288
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good will, _benevolence_, 80 " _friendship_, 179
gossip, _babble_, 71
_govern_, 185
government, form or system of, _polity_, 278
government, seat of, _capital_, 94
grace, _mercy_, 239
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gradual, _slow_, 337
grain, _particle_, 264
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gratification, _happiness_, 189
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gratifying, _delightful_, 126
gratuity, _gift_, 184
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_grief_, 187
grievance, _injustice_, 220
grieve, _mourn_, 246
grip, _catch_, 97
gripe, _catch_, 97
grotesque, _fanciful_, 167 " _queer_, 297
ground, _reason_, _n._, 302
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growl, _complain_, 112
growth, _harvest_, 192 " _progress_, 289
grudge, _hatred_, 193 " _pique_, 272
gruff, _morose_, 245
grumble, _complain_, 112
grunt, _complain_, 112
guard, _v._, _keep_, 226
guard, _n._, _defense_, 123 " _shelter_, 331
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guilt, _sin_, 332
guiltless, _innocent_, 220 " _pure_, 296
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gummy, _adhesive_, 22
gyves, _fetter_, 169
habiliments, _dress_, 140
_habit_, 187 " _dress_, 140
habitation, _home_, 201
habitual, _general_, 181 " _usual_, 362
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habitude, _habit_, 187
hail, _address_, _v._, 19
hale, _healthy_, 195
half-hearted, _faint_, 164
hallowed, _holy_, 200
hallucination, _delusion_, 127 " _dream_, 139 " _insanity_, 221
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handcuffs, _fetter_, 169
handicraft, _business_, 88
handsome, _beautiful_, 76 " _fine_, 172
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hankering, _desire_, 128
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_happen_, 188
happening, _accident_, 14
_happiness_, 189
_happy_, 190 " _clever_, 109 " _fortunate_, 177 " _skilful_, 335
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harass, _tire_, 357
harbor, _cherish_, 104 " _shelter_, 331
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hardship, _misfortune_, 242
hark, _listen_, 232
harken, _listen_, 232
harm, _v._, _abuse_, 12
harm, _n._, _injury_, 219 " _misfortune_, 242
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_harmony_, 191 " _melody_, 238
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_harvest_, 192
harvest-feast, _harvest_, 192
harvest-festival, _harvest_, 192
harvest-home, _harvest_, 192
harvesting, _harvest_, 192
harvest-tide, _harvest_, 192
harvest-time, _harvest_, 192
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hasten, _quicken_, 297
hastiness, _temerity_, 353
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_hatred_, 193 " _abomination_, 7 " _antipathy_, 48 " _enmity_, 152
haughtiness, _pride_, 286
haughty, _absolute_, 8
haul, _draw_, 138
_have_, 194
havoc, _massacre_, 237
_hazard_, 194 " _accident_, 14 " _danger_, 121
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headstrong, _obstinate_, 256
heady, _obstinate_, 256
heal, _recover_, 305
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_healthy_, 195
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hear, _listen_, 232
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hearthstone, _home_, 201
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heedless, _abstracted_, 11
heedlessness, _neglect_, 251 " _temerity_, 353
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_help_, 195 " _promote_, 291
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helpmate, _associate_, 60
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henchman, _accessory_, 13
herald, _announce_, 46
herd, _flock_, 173
heresiarch, _heretic_, 196
_heretic_, 196
heroic, _brave_, 85
heroism, _fortitude_, 176 " _prowess_, 294
hesitancy, _doubt_, _n._, 138
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hesitation, _doubt_, _n._, 138
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_hide_, 197 " _palliate_, 261
_high_, 198 " _steep_, 342
highroad, _way_, 372
highway, _way_, 372
highwayman, _robber_, 320
_hinder_, 199 " _obstruct_, 257 " _prohibit_, 290 " _restrain_, 315
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hint, _allude_, 36 " _suggestion_, 347
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hire, _n._, _pay_, 266
hireling, _venal_, 365
_history_, 200 " _record_, 304
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hoary, _old_, 257
hoidenish, _rustic_, 321
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hold dear, _cherish_, 104
hold in, _restrain_, 315
hold up, _support_, 348
holiness, _religion_, 307
_holy_, 200 " _perfect_, 268 " _pure_, 296
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_home_, 201
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_honest_, 202 " _candid_, 93
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honor, _v._, _admire_, 23 " _venerate_, 366
honor, _n._, _fame_, 166 " _justice_, 225 " _virtue_, 370
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honorarium, _pay_, 266
hook, _lock_, 234
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hope, _n._, _anticipation_, 48
hopelessness, _despair_, 129
_horizontal_, 202
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horrific, _awful_, 70
horror, _abomination_, 7 " _fear_, 168
horticulture, _agriculture_, 25
host, _army_, 56 " _company_, 110 " _throng_, 356
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hostility, _antipathy_, 48 " _enmity_, 152 " _feud_, 170 " _hatred_, 193
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house, _home_, 201
housings, _caparison_, 93
howbeit, _notwithstanding_, _conj._, 254
however, _but_, 89 " _notwithstanding_, _conj._, 254
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hum, _sing_, 333
human, _humane_, 203
_humane_, 203
humanity, _benevolence_, 80
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humiliation, _chagrin_, 100
humor, _fancy_, 167 " _wit_, 373
_hunt_, 203
hunting, _hunt_, 203
hurl, _send_, 327
hurry, _quicken_, 297
hurt, _injury_, 219
hurtful, _pernicious_, 270
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_hypocrisy_, 204 " _deception_, 123
_hypocrite_, 204
_hypothesis_, 205
_idea_, 206 " _fancy_, 167 " _ideal_, 206
_ideal_, 206 " _example_, 160 " _idea_, 206 " _perfect_, 268
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_idiocy_, 207
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_idle_, 208 " _vain_, 364
ignite, _burn_, 87
_ignorant_, 208 " _brutish_, 87
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ill-considered, _absurd_, 11
ill-defined, _faint_, 164
ill-doing, _sin_, 332
illegal, _criminal_, 120
ill-fortune, _misfortune_, 242
ill-humored, _morose_, 245
illimitable, _infinite_, 216
ill-informed, _ignorant_, 208
illiterate, _ignorant_, 208
ill-judged, _absurd_, 11
ill luck, _misfortune_, 242
ill-matched, _incongruous_, 214
ill-natured, _morose_, 245
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ill-treat, _abuse_, 12
illumination, _light_, 231
ill-use, _abuse_, 12
illusion, _delusion_, 127
illustrate, _adorn_, 23
illustration, _allegory_, 33 " _sample_, 323
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_imagination_, 209 " _idea_, 206 " _fancy_, 167
imaginative, _fanciful_, 167
imagine, _suppose_, 348
imbecility, _idiocy_, 207
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imbruted, _brutish_, 87
imitate, _follow_, 174
imitation, _caricature_, 95 " _duplicate_, 141 " _model_, 243
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immature, _youthful_, 375
immeasurable, _infinite_, 216
_immediately_, 211
immemorial, _old_, 257 " _primeval_, 287
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immerge, _immerse_, 212
_immerse_, 212
immigrate, _emigrate_, 147
_imminent_, 212
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immoral, _criminal_, 120
immorality, _sin_, 332
immortal, _eternal_, 157
immovable, _obstinate_, 256
immunity, _right_, 319
immutable, _permanent_, 269
impact, _collision_, 109
impairment, _injury_, 219
impart, _give_, 185
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impartiality, _justice_, 225
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impatience, _anger_, 44
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impeach, _arraign_, 56
impede, _hinder_, 199 " _obstruct_, 257
_impediment_, 213
impel, _drive_, 140 " _influence_, 217 " _persuade_, 271 " _send_, 327
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imperfection, _blemish_, 82
imperious, _absolute_, 8 " _dogmatic_, 137
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impertinence, _impudence_, 213 " _pertness_, 271
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imperturbable, _calm_, 91
impetuous, _eager_, 142 " _fierce_, 171
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implicate, _involve_, 223
implication, _suggestion_, 347
implore, _ask_, 59 " _plead_, 274 " _pray_, 281
imply, _allude_, 36 " _involve_, 223
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importune, _pray_, 281
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imposing, _awful_, 70
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imposture, _artifice_, 58 " _fraud_, 177
imprecation, _oath_, 254
impressibility, _sensibility_, 328
impression, _idea_, 206 " _trace_, 359
imprisonment, _fetter_, 169
impromptu, _extemporaneous_, 163
improve, _amend_, 41
improvement, _profit_, 288 " _progress_, 289
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_impudence_, 213 " _assurance_, 61 " _effrontery_, 144 " _pertness_, 271
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impulsive, _spontaneous_, 340
impute, _attribute_, _v._, 65
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in addition, _also_, 37
inadvertence, _neglect_, 251
inapposite, _incongruous_, 214
inappropriate, _alien_, _a._, 29 " _incongruous_, 214
inasmuch as, _because_, 77
inattention, _neglect_, 251
inattentive, _abstracted_, 11
inauguration, _beginning_, 78
inborn, _inherent_, 218
inbred, _inherent_, 218
incandescence, _light_, 231
incapacity, _idiocy_, 207
inception, _beginning_, 78
incessant, _continual_, 117
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incipience, _beginning_, 78
incite, _abet_, 4 " _persuade_, 271
incivility, _impudence_, 213
inclination, _aim_, 26 " _appetite_, 54 " _attachment_, 63 " _desire_, 128 " _direction_, 132 " _fancy_, 167
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include, _involve_, 223
incommensurable, _incongruous_, 214
incomparable, _rare_, 300
incompatible, _incongruous_, 214
incomprehensible, _mysterious_, 247 " _obscure_, 255
inconclusive, _absurd_, 11
_incongruous_, 214
inconsiderate, _bluff_, 83
inconsistency, _difference_, 131
inconsistent, _incongruous_, 214
inconstant, _vain_, 364
incorrect, _absurd_, 11
incorrupt, _pure_, 296
incorruptible, _faithful_, 165
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incubus, _load_, 233
inculcate, _teach_, 353
incursion, _attack_, _n._, 64
indecision, _doubt_, _n._, 138
indefinite, _equivocal_, 155
indemnity, _subsidy_, 345
independence, _liberty_, 230
indeterminate, _equivocal_, 155
indicate, _allude_, 36
indication, _characteristic_, 103 " _sign_, 332
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indifference, _apathy_, 50 " _neglect_, 251
indifferent, _abstracted_, 11
indigence, _poverty_, 279
indigenous, _native_, 248 " _primeval_, 287
indignation, _anger_, 44
indispensable, _inherent_, 218
indispensability, _necessity_, 250
indispensable, _necessary_, 250
indispensableness, _necessity_, 250
indisposed, _reluctant_, 308
indisposition, _disease_, 134
indistinct, _equivocal_, 155 " _faint_, 164 " _obscure_, 255
individually, _apiece_, 51
indoctrinate, _teach_, 353
indolent, _idle_, 208
indomitable, _obstinate_, 256
indubitable, _evident_, 159
induce, _draw_, 138 " _influence_, 217 " _persuade_, 271
_induction_, 215 " _demonstration_, 127
_industrious_, 215 " _active_, 17
_industry_, 216
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_infinite_, 216
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infrequent, _rare_, 300
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ingenuousness, _veracity_, 367
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ingress, _entrance_, 154
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_inherent_, 218
inhering, _inherent_, 218
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iniquitous, _criminal_, 120
iniquity, _abomination_, 7 " _injustice_, 220 " _sin_, 332
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injunction, _order_, 258
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injurious, _pernicious_, 270
_injury_, 219 " _blemish_, 82 " _injustice_, 220
_injustice_, 220 " _injury_, 219
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inquisition, _hunt_, 203
_inquisitive_, 221
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_insanity_, 221
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insight, _acumen_, 18 " _wisdom_, 372
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instantly, _immediately_, 211
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instill, _teach_, 353
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insubordination, _revolution_, 317
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intentness, _industry_, 216
inter, _hide_, 197
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intercept, _interpose_, 222
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interest, _entertain_, 152
interfere, _interpose_, 222
intermeddle, _interpose_, 222
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intermit, _cease_, 98
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_interpose_, 222
interpretation, _definition_, 124
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intimate, _allude_, 36
intimation, _suggestion_, 347
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intolerance, _fanaticism_, 166
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intrepidity, _prowess_, 294
intricate, _complex_, 112 " _obscure_, 255
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introduce, _allege_, 31
introduction, _entrance_, 154
introductory, _previous_, 285
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intuition, _knowledge_, 227
intuitive, _transcendental_, 361
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invention, _artifice_, 58 " _fiction_, 170
inventory, _record_, 304
invoke, _pray_, 281
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_involve_, 223
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inwrought, _inherent_, 218
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irate, _bitter_, 81
ire, _anger_, 44
irons, _fetter_, 169
irony, _banter_, 73
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irreconcilable, _incongruous_, 214
irresolute, _faint_, 164
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irritate, _affront_, 24
irritation, _anger_, 44 " _pique_, 272
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jade, _tire_, 357
jam, _throng_, 356
jar, _shake_, 330
jealous, _envious_, 155
jeer, _sneer_, 337
jeering, _banter_, 73
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jest, _wit_, 373
job, _business_, 88
jocularity, _wit_, 373
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joggle, _shake_, 330
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joint, _mutual_, 246
joke, _wit_, 373
jolly, _happy_, 190
jolt, _shake_, 330
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jounce, _shake_, 330
_journey_, 223
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joyful, _happy_, 190
joyous, _airy_, 27 " _happy_, 190
_judge_, 224
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judiciousness, _prudence_, 294 " _wisdom_, 372
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junction, _union_, 362
juncture, _union_, 362
junto, _cabal_, 90
jurisprudence, _law_, 229
just, _a._, _honest_, 202
just, _adv._, _but_, 89
_justice_, 225 " _judge_, 224 " _virtue_, 370
justification, _apology_, 51 " _defense_, 123
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keenness, _acumen_, 18
keen-sighted, _sagacious_, 322
keen-witted, _sagacious_, 322
_keep_, 226 " _celebrate_, 99 " _restrain_, 315 " _support_, 348
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keep down, _restrain_, 315
keep in, _restrain_, 315
keep under, _restrain_, 315
keep up, _support_, 348
_kill_, 226
_kin_, 227
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kind-heartedness, _benevolence_, 80
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kindliness, _benevolence_, 80
kindly, _friendly_, 178 " _pleasant_, 275 " _propitious_, 291
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kindred, _n._, _kin_, 227
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kingly, _royal_, 320
kiss, _caress_, 95
kitchen-gardening, _agriculture_, 25
knack, _ease_, 143
knock, _blow_, 83
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_knowledge_, 227 " _acquaintance_, 15 " _education_, 143 " _science_, 325 " _wisdom_, 372
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lacerate, _rend_, 309
laconic, _terse_, 354
lading, _load_, 233
lament, _mourn_, 246
lamentable, _pitiful_, 273
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land, _reach_, 300
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_language_, 228 " _diction_, 130 " _speech_, 339
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_large_, 229 " _plentiful_, 276
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lascivious, _brutish_, 87
lash, _blow_, 83
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late, _new_, 252
laudation, _praise_, 280
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launch, _send_, 327
laurels, _fame_, 166
lave, _cleanse_, 107
lavish, _plentiful_, 276
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_law_, 229 " _justice_, 225
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lean, _tip_, 357
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leave-taking, _farewell_, 168
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legislation, _law_, 229
legitimate, _authentic_, 67
leisure, _vacant_, 363
lengthen, _protract_, 293
lenience, _mercy_, 239
leniency, _mercy_, 239 " _patience_, 265
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let, _allow_, 35
let go, _surrender_, 349
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libel, _slander_, 336
liberal, _generous_, 182 " _plentiful_, 276
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_liberty_, 230 " _permission_, 269 " _right_, 319
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life, _behavior_, 79
life, public, _career_, 95
lift, _carry_, 96
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_light_, _n._, 231 " _knowledge_, 227
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_likely_, 232 " _apparent_, 52
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liking, _appetite_, 54 " _fancy_, 167 " _love_, 235
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limpid, _clear_, 107
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line of achievement, _career_, 95
line of battle, _array_, 57
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_listen_, 232
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literary works, _literature_, 233
_literature_, 233
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live, _a._, _alive_, 30
liveliness, _pertness_, 271
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living creature, _animal_, 45
living organism, _animal_, 45
_load_, 233
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_lock_, 234
lodge, _abide_, 5 " _association_, 60
lofty, _high_, 198
loneliness, _retirement_, 315
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longing, _appetite_, 54 " _desire_, 128 " _eager_, 142
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_look_, _v._, 234 " _appear_, 52
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look forward to, _anticipate_, 47
loquacious, _garrulous_, 181
lordly, _absolute_, 8
Lord's Supper, _sacrament_, 331
lore, _knowledge_, 227
loss, _injury_, 219
lot, _flock_, 173 " _portion_, 279
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_love_, _v._, 235 " _admire_, 23
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loving, _amiable_, 42 " _friendly_, 178
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loyalty, _allegiance_, 32
lucid, _clear_, 107
lucky, _fortunate_, 177 " _happy_, 190
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lure, _allure_, 37 " _draw_, 138
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luster, _light_, 231
luxuriant, _plentiful_, 276
lying, _deception_, 123
machination, _artifice_, 58
machine, _tool_, 358
madness, _insanity_, 221
magisterial, _dogmatic_, 137
magnanimous, _generous_, 182
magnificent, _royal_, 320
mail, _arms_, 55
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_make_, 236 " _compel_, 111
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make haste, _quicken_, 297
make known, _announce_, 46
make out, _make_, 236
make prisoner, _arrest_, 57
make up, _add_, 18 " _make_, 236
make use of, _employ_, 147
make void, _cancel_, 92
make white, _bleach_, 82
maladroit, _awkward_, 70
malady, _disease_, 134
male, _masculine_, 237
malediction, _oath_, 254
malevolence, _enmity_, 152 " _hatred_, 193
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manacles, _fetter_, 169
manage, _govern_, 185
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mangle, _rend_, 309
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manly, _masculine_, 237
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manufacture, _make_, 236
marauder, _robber_, 320
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marge, _bank_, 72 " _boundary_, 84
margin, _bank_, 72 " _boundary_, 84
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maritime, _nautical_, 248
mark, _aim_, 26 " _characteristic_, 103 " _sign_, 332 " _trace_, 359
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_marriage_, 236
_masculine_, 237
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mask, _n._, _pretense_, 283
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_massacre_, 237 " _kill_, 226
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massive, _large_, 229
master, _attain_, 64 " _conquer_, 115
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matrimony, _marriage_, 236
matter, _topic_, 359
maxim, _proverb_, 293
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mechanism, _tool_, 358
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_meddlesome_, 238 " _inquisitive_, 221
meddling, _inquisitive_, 221 " _meddlesome_, 238
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meeting, _collision_, 109 " _company_, 110
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meliorate, _amend_, 41
_melody_, 238
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memorandum, _record_, 304
memorial, _record_, 304 " _trace_, 359
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_memory_, 239
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merciful, _humane_, 203 " _propitious_, 291
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_mercy_, 239 " _pardon_, 262 " _pity_, 273
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merely, _but_, 89
merriment, _entertainment_, 153 " _happiness_, 189
merry, _happy_, 190
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mete out, _allot_, 34
_meter_, 240 " _poetry_, 277
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middle, _center_, 99
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might, _power_, 279
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mildness, _mercy_, 239
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mimicry, _caricature_, 95
_mind_, 241
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mingled with, _amid_, 42
_minute_, 242 " _fine_, 172
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mirthful, _happy_, 190
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mischievous, _pernicious_, 270
misdeed, _sin_, 332
misemploy, _abuse_, 12
miserable, _pitiful_, 273
miserly, _avaricious_, 68
miserliness, _frugality_, 180
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mismated, _incongruous_, 214
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mistrust, _doubt_, _v._, 137
misuse, _abuse_, 12
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mockery, _banter_, 73
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_model_, 243 " _example_, 160 " _idea_, 206 " _ideal_, 206
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moderate, _a._, _slow_, 337
moderation, _abstinence_, 10
modern, _new_, 252
_modesty_, 244
modify, _change_, _v._, 100
mold, _bend_, 79 " _govern_, 185
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molder, _decay_, 122
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mollify, _allay_, 31
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monetary, _financial_, 172
_money_, 244
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mood, _fancy_, 167
mop, _cleanse_, 107
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_morose_, 245 " _severe_, 329
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mortification, _chagrin_, 100
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_motion_, 245 " _act_, 16 " _topic_, 359
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_mourn_, 246
mournful, _pitiful_, 273
mourning, _grief_, 187
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movement, _act_, 16 " _motion_, 245
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moving, _pitiful_, 273
muddy, _obscure_, 255
mulish, _restive_, 314 " _obstinate_, 256
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multitude, _army_, 56 " _company_, 110 " _throng_, 356
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muniments, _history_, 200
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music, _melody_, 238
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mutation, _change_, _n._, 101
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mutiny, _revolution_, 317
_mutual_, 246
_mysterious_, 247 " _dark_, 122 " _obscure_, 255
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_name_, 247 " _term_, 354
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nation, _people_, 266
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natural, _inherent_, 218 " _native_, 248 " _normal_, 253 " _physical_, 272 " _radical_, 299
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nauseate, _abhor_, 5
_nautical_, 248
naval, _nautical_, 248
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nearness, _approximation_, 55
_neat_, 249 " _becoming_, 77 " _terse_, 354
_necessary_, 150
necessitate, _compel_, 111
_necessity_, 250 " _predestination_, 282
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needful, _necessary_, 250
nefarious, _criminal_, 120
_neglect_, 251
neglectfulness, _neglect_, 251
negligence, _neglect_, 251
negligent, _abstracted_, 11
negotiate, _transact_, 360
neighborhood, _approximation_, 55
neighboring, _adjacent_, 22
neighborly, _friendly_, 178
neophyte, _convert_, 119
never-ending, _eternal_, 157
never-failing, _eternal_, 157
nevertheless, _but_, 89 " _notwithstanding_, _conj._, 254
_new_, 252
new-fangled, _new_, 252
new-fashioned, _new_, 252
new-made, _new_, 252
next, _adjacent_, 22
nice, _fine_, 172 " _neat_, 249 " _tasteful_, 352
niggardly, _avaricious_, 68
nigh, _adjacent_, 22
_nimble_, 253 " _active_, 17 " _alert_, 28
noble, _awful_, 70 " _generous_, 182 " _high_, 198
noise, _sound_, 338
noisome, _pernicious_, 279
non-conformist, _heretic_, 196
non-homogeneous, _heterogeneous_, 196
nonsensical, _absurd_, 11
_normal_, 253 " _general_, 181 " _usual_, 368
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notes, _money_, 244
notify, _announce_, 46
notion, _idea_, 206
notoriety, _fame_, 166
_notwithstanding_, _prep._, 254
_notwithstanding_, _conj._, 254 " _but_, 89
nourish, _cherish_, 104
nourishment, _food_, 175
novel, _a._, _new_, 252
novel, _n._, _fiction_, 170 " _story_, 343
novelty, _change_, _n._, 101
novice, _amateur_, 39
now, _immediately_, 211 " _yet_, 374
noxious, _pernicious_, 270
nugatory, _vain_, 364
nuisance, _abomination_, 7
null, _vain_, 364
nullify, _abolish_, 6 " _cancel_, 92
number, _calculate_, 90
numberless, _infinite_, 216
numbers, _poetry_, 277
nuptials, _marriage_, 236
nurse, _cherish_, 104
nurture, _cherish_, 104 " _education_, 143 " _teach_, 353
nutriment, _food_, 175
nutrition, _food_, 175
_oath_, 254
obdurate, _obstinate_, 256
obedience, _allegiance_, 32
obedient, _docile_, 136
obey, _follow_, 174 " _keep_, 226
obiter dictum, _precedent_, 282
object, _aim_, 26 " _design_, 128 " _reason_, _n._, 302
objective, _subjective_, 345
objurgation, _reproof_, 311
obligation, _contract_, 118 " _duty_, 142
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_permission_, 269
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_primeval_, 287
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_proverb_, 293
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_queer_, 297
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_quote_, 298
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_radical_, 299
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_refinement_, 305
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_refute_, 306
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_restive_, 314
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_retirement_, 315
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_suggestion_, 347
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_terse_, 354
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_therefore_, 355
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_time_, 356
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_tire_, _v._, 357
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_tool_, 358
_topic_, 359
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_transcendental_, 361 " _mysterious_, 247
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_transient_, 361
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_wander_, 371
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whitewash, _bleach_, 82
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willing, _spontaneous_, 340
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_wit_, 373
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withal, _also_, 37
withdraw, _abstract_, 10
withdraw from, _abandon_, 1
wither, _die_, 130
withhold, _keep_, 226 " _restrain_, 315
without delay, _immediately_, 211
without end, _eternal_, 157
witness, _avow_, 69 " _testimony_, 355
witticism, _wit_, 373
wo, _grief_, 187 " _pain_, 261
woful, _pitiful_, 273
womanish, _feminine_, 169
womanly, _feminine_, 169
wonder, _admire_, 23 " _amazement_, 39
wont, _habit_, 187
wonted, _usual_, 362
woo, _address_, _v._, 19
word, _term_, 354
wordiness, _circumlocution_, 105
wording, _diction_, 130
_work_, 374 " _act_, 16 " _business_, 88
workman, _artist_, 58
work out, _do_, 135
worn, _faint_, 164
worn down, _faint_, 164
worn out, _faint_, 164
worry, _anxiety_, 49 " _care_, 94
worship, _religion_, 307
worst, _beat_, 75 " _conquer_, 115
worth, _price_, 285 " _virtue_, 370
worthiness, _virtue_, 370
worthless, _vain_, 364
worthy, _becoming_, 77
wound, _affront_, 24
wrangle, _reason_, _v._, 302
wrath, _anger_, 44
wretched, _pitiful_, 273
writing, metrical, _poetry_, 277
writings, _literature_, 233
wrong, _v._, _abuse_, 12
wrong, _a._, _criminal_, 120
wrong, _n._, _injury_, 219 " _injustice_, 220 " _sin_, 332
wrong-doing, _sin_, 332
yearning, _eager_, 142
yell, _call_, 91
_yet_, 374 " _but_, 89 " _notwithstanding_, _conj._, 254
yield, _allow_, 35 " _bend_, 79 " _harvest_, 192 " _surrender_, 349
yielding, _docile_, 136
young, _new_, 252 " _youthful_, 375
_youthful_, 375 " _new_, 252
zeal, _enthusiasm_, 153
zealous, _eager_, 142
zest, _appetite_, 54
Transcriber's Endnotes:
Significant amendments, invalid links and further notes have been listed below.
p. 45, ANIMAL, synonyms re-ordered (_fauna_ originally last);
p. 45, ANIMAL, 'individal' amended to _individual_;
p. 70, AWFUL, 'mein' amended to _mien_;
p. 75, BEAT, invalid reference: 'SHATTER', see INDEX;
p. 78, BEGINNING, '1 John 1' amended to _John i, 1_;
p. 82, BITTER, 'quinin, or strychnin' amended to _quinine, or strychnine_;
p. 98, CAUSE, 'conseqeunce' amended to _consequence_;
p. 128, DESIRE, 'concupisence' amended to _concupiscence_;
p. 148, END, _v._, 'synonymns' amended to _synonyms_;
p. 148, END, _v._, invalid reference: 'BEGIN', see INDEX;
p. 149, END, _n._, 'CONSEQENCE' amended to _CONSEQUENCE_;
p. 153, ENTHUSIASM, 'ecstacy' amended to _ecstasy_;
p. 167, FANCIFUL, 'arangement' amended to _arrangement_;
p. 190, HAPPINESS, invalid reference: 'COMFORT', see INDEX;
p. 196, HETEROGENEOUS, 'heterogenious' amended to _heterogeneous_ (twice);
p. 202, HONEST, 'fradulent' amended to _fraudulent_;
p. 212, IMMERSE, invalid reference: 'BURY', see INDEX;
p. 214, IMPUDENCE, invalid reference: 'ARROGANCE', see INDEX;
p. 227, KNOWLEDGE, 'or' amended to _of_--'... perception of external objects ...';
p. 276, PLENTIFUL, '(Compare synonyms especial reference to giving or expending.', amended, using a later edition, to _(Compare synonyms for ADEQUATE.)_;
p. 278, POLITE, 'devolopment' amended to _development_;
p. 297, QUEER, 'an' amended to _as_--'... and so uneven, as an _odd_ number ...';
p. 305, RECORD, 'deposito' amended to _depository_;
p. 316, REVELATION, 'mistery' amended to _mystery_;
p. 334, SKETCH and p. 335, SKEPTIC, out-of-sequence entries re-ordered; estimated new placement of p. 335 marker; index amendments include: p. 511, agnostic; p. 513, atheist; p. 523, deist; p. 525, disbeliever; p. 526, doubter; p. 532, freethinker; p. 537, infidel; p. 555, skeptic; p. 560, unbeliever;
p. 400, ASSUME, 'and' amended to _or_--'Unless he do profane, steal, or ----.';
p. 418, DEXTERITY, 'imimitable' amended to _inimitable_;
p. 431, EXTERMINATE, added _is_--'... what is the original meaning ...';
p. 433, FEAR, 'right' amended to _fright_--'How does it compare with _fright_ ...';
p. 434, FEUD, 'contentention' amended to _contention_;
p. 443, HAPPINESS, 'ecstacy' amended to _ecstasy_;
p. 487, PROVERB, 'apothem' amended to _apothegm_;
p. 515, INDEX, because: 'therefor' amended to _therefore_;
p. 516, INDEX, bodily: page number added to _physical_;
p. 530, INDEX, fancy: sub-listing ordered alphabetically;
p. 535, INDEX, imagination: page number corrected for _idea_;
p. 535, INDEX, 'immeasureable': amended to _immeasurable_;
p. 539, INDEX, kind: sub-listing ordered alphabetically;
p. 540, INDEX, loving: 'friendy' amended to _friendly_;
p. 543, INDEX, nutrition: _oath_ removed from sub-listing and listed separately;
p. 546, INDEX, plan: _horizontal_ removed from sub-listing.