English Synonyms and Antonyms

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).
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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