English Synonyms and Antonyms

unlettered compare with illiterate?
EXAMPLES.
So foolish was I and ----; I was as a beast before thee.
A boy is better unborn than ----.
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IMAGINATION (page 209).
QUESTIONS.
1. Into what two parts was imagination divided in the old psychology? 2. What name is now preferably given
to the so-called Reproductive Imagination by President Porter and others? 3. What is fantasy or phantasy? In
what mental actions is it manifested? 4. What is fantasy in ordinary usage? 5. How is imagination defined?
fancy? 6. To what faculty of the mind do both of these activities or powers belong? 7. In what other respects
do imagination and fancy agree? What is the one great distinction between them? How do they respectively
treat the material objects or images with which they deal? Which power finds use in philosophy, science, and
mechanical invention, and how?
EXAMPLES.
While ----, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
And as ---- bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy
nothing A local habitation and a name.
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IMMEDIATELY (page 211).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the primary meaning of immediately? Its meaning as an adverb of time? 2. What did by and by
formerly signify? What is its present meaning? 3. What did directly formerly signify, and what does it now
commonly mean? 4. What change has presently undergone? 5. Is immediately losing anything of its force?
What words now seem more emphatic?
EXAMPLES.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal ---- does always last.
Let us go up ----, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
Obey me ----!
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IMMERSE (page 212).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is dip derived? from what immerse? 2. How do the two words differ in dignity? How
as to the completeness of the action? How as to the continuance of the object in or under the liquid? 3. Which
word is preferably used as to the rite of baptism? 4. What does submerge imply? 5. What are douse and duck?
6. What special sense has dip which the other words do not share?
EXAMPLES.
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Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past ---- its dead.
The ships of war, Congress and Cumberland, were ---- by the Merrimac.
When food can not be swallowed, life may be prolonged by ---- the body in nutritive fluids.
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IMMINENT (page 212).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is imminent derived and with what primary sense? impending? 2. How do imminent
and impending differ in present use? 3. How does threatening differ from the two words above given?
EXAMPLES.
And nodding Ilium waits the ---- fall.
And these she does apply for warnings, portents, And evils ----.
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IMPEDIMENT (page 213).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does impediment primarily signify? obstacle? obstruction? 2. How does obstacle differ from
obstruction? 3. What is a hindrance? 4. Is an impediment what one finds or what he carries? Is it momentary
or constant? What did the Latin impedimenta signify? 5. What is an encumbrance? How does it differ from an
obstacle or obstruction? 6. Is a difficulty within one or without?
EXAMPLES.
Something between a ---- and a help.
Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we march'd without ----.
Demosthenes became the foremost orator of the world in spite of an ---- in his speech.
----s overcome are the stepping-stones by which great men rise.
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IMPUDENCE (page 213).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does impertinence primarily denote? What is its common acceptation? 2. What is impudence?