English Synonyms and Antonyms

compassion?
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EXAMPLES.
Nothing but the Infinite ---- is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
He hallows every heart he once has swayed, And when his presence we no longer share, Still leaves ---- as a
relic there.
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PLEAD (page 274).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to plead in the ordinary sense? in the legal sense? 2. How do argue and advocate differ? 3. What
do beseech, entreat, and implore imply? 4. How does solicit compare with the above words?
EXAMPLES.
Speak to me low, my Savior, low and sweet, . . . Lest I should fear and fall, and miss thee so, Who art not
missed by any that ----.
Speaking of the honor paid to good men, is it not time to ---- for a reform in the writing of biographies?
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PLEASANT (page 275).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does pleasant add to the sense of pleasing? 2. How does pleasant compare with kind? 3. What does
good-natured signify? How does it compare with pleasant?
EXAMPLES.
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to ---- dreams.
When fiction rises ---- to the eye, Men will believe because they love the lie.
... If we must part forever, Give me but one ---- word to think upon.
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PLENTIFUL (page 276).
QUESTIONS.
1. What kind of a term is enough, and what does it mean? 2. How does sufficient compare with enough? 3.
What is ample? 4. To what do abundant, ample, liberal, and plentiful apply? 5. How is copious used?
affluent? plentiful? 6. What does complete express? 7. In what sense are lavish and profuse employed? 8. To
what is luxuriant applied?
EXAMPLES.
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My ---- joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
Can anybody remember when the right sort of men and the right sort of women were ----?
Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all, The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received, And is ---- for both.
He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ---- shield.
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POETRY (page 277).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is poetry? 2. Does poetry involve rime? Does it require meter? 3. What is imperatively required
beyond verse, rime, or meter to constitute poetry?
EXAMPLES.
---- is rhythmical, imaginative language, expressing the invention, taste, thought, passion, and insight of a
human soul.
He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty ----.
And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal ----.
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POLITE (page 277).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are the characteristics of a civil person? What more is found in one who is polite? 2. How does
courteous compare with civil? 3. What does courtly signify? genteel? urbane? 4. In what sense is polished
used? complaisant?
EXAMPLES.
She is not ---- for the sake of seeming ----, but ---- for the sake of being kind.
He was so generally ---- that nobody thanked him for it.
Her air, her manners, all who saw admired; ---- tho coy, and gentle tho retired.
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POVERTY (page 279).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does poverty strictly denote? What does it signify in ordinary use? 2. What does privation signify?
How does it compare with distress? 3. What is indigence? destitution? penury? 4. What does pauperism
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properly signify? How does it differ from beggary and mendicancy?
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POWER (page 279).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is power? 2. Is power limited to intelligent agents, or how widely applied? 3. How does ability
compare with power? 4. What is capacity, and how related to power and to ability? 5. What is competency?