English Synonyms and Antonyms

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?
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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.
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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.
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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