English Synonyms and Antonyms

burst and rupture signify? Which is the stronger word? When is a steam-boiler said to be ruptured? 6. What
does rip signify?
EXAMPLES.
Storms do not ---- the sail that is furled.
Oh, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious, periwig-pated fellow ---- a passion to tatters, to very rags, to
split the ears of the groundlings.
And now a bubble ----s, and now a world.
The first blood shed in the revolutionary struggle; a mere drop in amount, but a deluge in its effects, ----ing
the colonies forever from the mother country.
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RENOUNCE (page 309).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what is renounce derived, and in what sense used? recant? retract? 2. What is it to discard? 3. How
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does revoke compare with recall in original meaning and in present use? 4. What is the derivation and the
distinctive meaning of abjure? 5. In what sense is repudiate used?
EXAMPLES.
On his knees, with his hand on the Bible, Galileo was compelled to ---- and curse the doctrine of the
movement of the earth.
He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, ---- earth to forfeit heaven.
He had no spiritual adviser, no human comforter, and was entirely in the hands of those who were determined
that he should ---- or die.
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REPENTANCE (page 310).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is regret? 2. What does penitence add to regret? 3. How does repentance surpass the meaning of
penitence, regret, sorrow, etc.? 4. What is compunction? contrition? 5. What is remorse, and how does it
compare with repentance?
EXAMPLES.
What then? what rests? Try what ---- can: what can it not?
Forgive me, Valentine, if hearty ---- Be a sufficient ransom for offense, I tender't here.
So writhes the mind ---- has riven, Unmeet for earth, undoomed to heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath,
Around it flame, within it death.
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REPROOF (page 311).
QUESTIONS.
1. Are blame, censure, and disapproval spoken or silent? 2. Are comment, criticism, rebuke, reflection,
reprehension, and reproof expressed or not? 3. How of admonition and animadversion? 4. Are comment and
criticism favorable or unfavorable? Do they imply superiority on the part of commentator or critic? 5. Do
reflection and reprehension imply such superiority? How are these two words discriminated? 6. What does
rebuke literally signify? To what kind of person is a rebuke administered? 7. To what kind of person is
reproof administered? 8. What do rebuke and reproof imply on the part of him who administers them? 9.
What is animadversion? admonition?
EXAMPLES.
A ---- is intolerable when it is administered out of pride or hatred.
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful ---- of a friend.
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Open ---- is better than secret love.
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REPROVE (page 312).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to censure? to reprove? to reprimand 2. How does admonish compare with the other words in the
group? Is its reference to the past or to the future? 3. What is it to reproach? Does this word imply authority
or superiority? 4. What is the force of expostulate and remonstrate?
EXAMPLES.
He that oppresseth the poor ----eth his Maker.
Her answer ----ed me; for she said, "I never ask their crimes, for we have all come short."
Moses was ----ed of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, see, saith he, that thou make all
things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
This witness is true. Therefore ---- them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.
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REST (page 313).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is ease? quiet? rest? 2. What is recreation, and how is it related to rest? 3. What is repose in the
primary, and what in the derived, sense? 4. How does repose compare with rest? 5. What is a pause? 6. How
does sleep compare with repose and rest?
EXAMPLES.
Seek out, less often sought than found, A soldier's grave--for thee the best; Then look around, and choose thy
ground, And take thy ----.
Her manners had not that ---- That stamps the cast of Vere de Vere.
Shall I not take mine ---- in mine inn?
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RESTRAIN (page 315).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to restrain? 2. How does constrain differ from restrain? 3. How does restrain differ from