English Synonyms and Antonyms

liberty more freely used in a figurative sense? 6. What is license? How does it compare with liberty and
freedom?
EXAMPLES.
In Rousseau's philosophy ---- is conceived of as lawlessness.
When ---- from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set
the stars of glory there.
The ---- to go higher than we are is given only when we have fulfilled amply the duty of our present sphere.
---- they mean when they cry ----! For who loves that must first be wise and good.
* * * * *
LIGHT (page 231).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is light? 2. What are the characteristics of a flame? a blaze? 3. What is a flare? a flash? 4. What is the
sense of glare and glow? How do they differ, and to what are they applied? 5. To what do shine and sheen
refer? 6. What do glimmer, glitter, and shimmer denote? 7. What is gleam? a glitter? a sparkle? glistening? 8.
What is scintillation? in what two senses used? 9. To what are twinkle and twinkling applied? 10. What is
illumination? incandescence?
EXAMPLES.
From a little spark may burst a mighty ----.
A ---- as of another life, my kindling soul received.
It is ----, that enables us to see the differences between things; and it is Christ that gives us ----.
White with the whiteness of the snow, Pink with faintest rosy ----, They blossom on their sprays.
Ghastly in the ---- of day.
---- in golden coats like images.
So ---- a good deed in a naughty world.
There's but the ---- of a star Between a man of peace and war.
* * * * *
LISTEN (page 232).
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
404

---

QUESTIONS.
1. What does hear signify? What does listen add to the meaning of hear? 2. What does attend add to the
meaning of listen? 3. What does heed further imply? 4. What is the difference between listen for and listen to?
EXAMPLES.
And ----! how blithe the throstle sings; He, too, is no mean preacher;
Till I ---- and ---- If a step draweth near.
Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear Has grown familiar with your song; I ---- it in the opening year, I ----, and
it cheers me long.
----, every one That ---- may, unto a tale That's merrier than the nightingale.
The men lay silent in the tall grass ---- for the signal gun that should bid them rise and charge.
* * * * *
LITERATURE (page 233).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is literature in the most general sense? in more limited sense? 2. What does literature, used
absolutely, denote? 3. How may literature include science? How is it ordinarily contrasted with science?
EXAMPLES.
Wherever ---- consoles sorrow or assuages pain; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with
wakefulness and tears--there is exhibited in its noblest form the immortal influence of Athens.
---- are lifelong friends.
---- are embalmed minds.
In our own language we have a ---- nowhere surpassed, in whose lock no foreign key will ever rust.
* * * * *
LOAD (page 233).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is burden derived, and with what primary meaning? load? 2. What does weight
signify? How does it compare with load and burden? 3. What are cargo, freight, and lading? 4. What is the
distinctive sense of pack?
EXAMPLES.
Bear ye one another's ----.
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
405

---

Wearing all that ---- Of learning lightly like a flower.
The ass will carry his ----, but not a double ----.
* * * * *
LOOK (page 234).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinction between look and see? between these words and behold? 2. What is it to gaze? to