English Synonyms and Antonyms

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).
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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.
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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.
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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