English Synonyms and Antonyms

glance? to stare? 3. What do scan, inspect, and survey respectively express, and how are they distinguished
from one another? 4. What element or elements does watch add to the meaning of look?
EXAMPLES.
It is always well to ---- at people when addressing them.
Having eyes they ---- not, and having ears hear not.
Then gently ---- your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step
aside is human.
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that ---- for the morning.
How peacefully the broad and golden moon Comes up to ---- upon the reaper's toil!
I am monarch of all I ----, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of
the fowl and the brute.
But, ----, the morn in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill.
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LOVE (page 235).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is affection? 2. What may be given as a brief definition of love? 3. Does affection apply to persons or
things? To what does love apply? 4. What term is preferable to love as applying to articles of food and the
like? 5. How does love differ from affection? from friendship?
EXAMPLES.
Peace, commerce, and honest ---- with all nations help to form the bright constellation which has gone before
us.
And you must love him ere to you he will seem worthy of your ----.
Yet pity for a horse o'erdriven And ---- in which my hound has part Can hang no weight upon my heart, In its
assumptions up to heaven.
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Such ---- and unbroken faith As temper life's worst bitterness.
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MAKE (page 236).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the essential idea of make? 2. How is make allied with create? 3. How is make allied with compose
or constitute? 4. What are some chief antonyms for make? 5. What are the prepositions chiefly used with
make, and how employed?
EXAMPLES.
In the beginning God ---- the heaven and the earth.
The mason ----, the architect ----.
I assert confidently that it is in the power of one American mother to ---- as many gentlemen as she has sons.
Newton discovered, but did not ---- the law of gravitation.
The river flows over a bed of pebbles like those that ---- the beach and the surrounding plains.
A hermit and a wolf or two My whole acquaintance ----.
If we were not willing, they possessed the power of ---- us to do them justice.
The lessons of adversity sometimes soften and ----, but as often they indurate and pervert.
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MARRIAGE (page 236).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does matrimony specifically denote? 2. What two senses has marriage? 3. From what language is
wedlock derived? what is its distinctive use? 4. What is the meaning of wedding? nuptials?
EXAMPLES.
Let me not to the ---- of true minds admit impediments.
The lover was killed in a duel on the night before the intended ----.
I'll join my eldest daughter, and my joy, To him forthwith in holy ---- bonds.
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MASCULINE (page 237).
QUESTIONS.
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1. To what is male applied? To what masculine? 2. To what does manly refer? manful? In what connection
can manly be used where manful could not be substituted? 3. What is the sense of mannish? virile?
EXAMPLES.
Every virtue in the higher phases of ---- character begins in truth and pity or truth and reverence to all
womanhood.
One brave and ---- struggle And he gained the solid land And the cover of the mountains And the carbines of
his band.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; ---- and female created he them.
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MASSACRE (page 237).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is massacre? butchery? havoc? 2. To what does carnage especially refer? slaughter? 3. Which of
these words can be used of the destruction of life in open and honorable warfare?
EXAMPLES.
Mark! where his ---- and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude and calls it peace!
Forbade to wade through ---- to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
The capture of Port Arthur was followed by a terrible ----.
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MEDDLESOME (page 238).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the conduct specially characteristic of a meddlesome person? of an intrusive person? of one who is