English Synonyms and Antonyms

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.
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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