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track. A passage is between any two objects or lines of enclosure, a pass commonly between mountains. A
driveway is within enclosed grounds, as of a private residence. A channel is a waterway. A thoroughfare is a
way through; a road or street temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such time to be a
thoroughfare. Compare AIR; DIRECTION.
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WISDOM.
Synonyms:
attainment, insight, prudence, depth, judgment, reason, discernment, judiciousness, reasonableness, discretion,
knowledge, sagacity, enlightenment, learning, sense, erudition, prescience, skill, foresight, profundity,
understanding. information,
Enlightenment, erudition, information, knowledge, learning, and skill are acquired, as by study or practise.
Insight, judgment, profundity or depth, reason, sagacity, sense, and understanding are native qualities of
mind, tho capable of increase by cultivation. The other qualities are on the border-line. Wisdom has been
defined as "the right use of knowledge," or "the use of the most important means for attaining the best ends,"
wisdom thus presupposing knowledge for its very existence and exercise. Wisdom is mental power acting upon
the materials that fullest knowledge gives in the most effective way. There may be what is termed "practical
wisdom" that looks only to material results; but in its full sense, wisdom implies the highest and noblest
exercise of all the faculties of the moral nature as well as of the intellect. Prudence is a lower and more
negative form of the same virtue, respecting outward and practical matters, and largely with a view of
avoiding loss and injury; wisdom transcends prudence, so that while the part of prudence is ordinarily also
that of wisdom, cases arise, as in the exigencies of business or of war, when the highest wisdom is in the
disregard of the maxims of prudence. Judgment, the power of forming decisions, especially correct decisions,
is broader and more positive than prudence, leading one to do, as readily as to refrain from doing; but
judgment is more limited in range and less exalted in character than wisdom; to say of one that he displayed
good judgment is much less than to say that he manifested wisdom. Skill is far inferior to wisdom, consisting
largely in the practical application of acquired knowledge, power, and habitual processes, or in the ingenious
contrivance that makes such application possible. In the making of something perfectly useless there may be
great skill, but no wisdom. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; KNOWLEDGE; MIND; PRUDENCE;
SAGACIOUS; SKILFUL.
Antonyms:
absurdity, folly, imbecility, miscalculation, senselessness, error, foolishness, imprudence, misjudgment,
silliness, fatuity, idiocy, indiscretion, nonsense, stupidity.
Compare synonyms for ABSURD; IDIOCY.
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WIT.
Synonyms:
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banter, fun, joke, waggery, burlesque, humor, playfulness, waggishness, drollery, jest, pleasantry, witticism.
facetiousness, jocularity, raillery,
Wit is the quick perception of unusual or commonly unperceived analogies or relations between things
apparently unrelated, and has been said to depend upon a union of surprise and pleasure; it depends certainly
on the production of a diverting, entertaining, or merrymaking surprise. The analogies with which wit plays
are often superficial or artificial; humor deals with real analogies of an amusing or entertaining kind, or with
traits of character that are seen to have a comical side as soon as brought to view. Wit is keen, sudden, brief,
and sometimes severe; humor is deep, thoughtful, sustained, and always kindly. Pleasantry is lighter and less
vivid than wit. Fun denotes the merry results produced by wit and humor, or by any fortuitous occasion of
mirth, and is pronounced and often hilarious.
Antonyms:
dulness, seriousness, sobriety, solemnity, stolidity, stupidity. gravity,
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WORK.
Synonyms:
achievement, doing, labor, product, action, drudgery, occupation, production, business, employment,
performance, toil. deed, exertion.
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