English Synonyms and Antonyms

achieve? 3. How does obtain differ from procure?
EXAMPLES.
The heights by great men ---- and kept Were not ---- by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might ---- By fearing to attempt.
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ATTITUDE (page 65).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does position as regards the human body differ from attitude, posture, or pose? 2. Do the three latter
words apply to the living or the dead? 3. What is the distinctive sense of attitude? Is it conscious or
unconscious? 4. How does posture differ from attitude? 5. What is the distinctive sense of pose? How does it
differ from, and how does it agree with attitude and posture?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- assumed indicated great indignation because of the insult implied.
The ---- was graceful and pleasing.
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ATTRIBUTE, v. (page 65).
QUESTIONS.
1. What suggestion is often involved in attribute? 2. How does attribute differ from refer and ascribe? 3. Is
charge (in this connection) used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
---- ye greatness unto our God.
He ---- unworthy motives which proved a groundless charge.
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ATTRIBUTE, n. (page 66).
QUESTIONS.
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1. What is the derivation and the inherent meaning of quality? 2. What is an attribute? 3. Which of the above
words expresses what necessarily belongs to the subject of which it is said to be an attribute or quality? 4.
What is the derivation and distinctive sense of property? 5. How does property ordinarily differ from quality?
6. In what usage do property and quality become exact synonyms, and how are properties then distinguished?
EXAMPLES.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The ---- to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and
fear of kings.
Nothing endures but personal ----s.
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AVARICIOUS (page 68).
QUESTIONS.
1. How do avaricious and covetous differ from miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, and penurious? 2. Of what
matters are greedy and stingy used? How do they differ from each other?
EXAMPLES.
I am not ---- for gold; Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
It is better to be content with such things as ye have than to become ---- and ---- in accumulating.
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AVENGE (page 69).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to avenge? 2. How does avenge differ from revenge? 3. Which word would be used of an act of
God? 4. Is retaliate used in the sense of avenge or of revenge?
EXAMPLES.
O, that the vain remorse, which must chastise Crimes done, had but as loud a voice to warn As its keen sting
is mortal to ----.
I lost mine eye laying the prize aboard, And therefore to ---- it, shalt thou die.
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AVOW (page 69).
QUESTIONS.
1. Which words of this group refer exclusively to one's own knowledge or action? 2. What is the distinctive
sense of aver? of avouch? of avow? 3. How do avouch and avow differ from aver in construction? 4. Is avow
used in a good or a bad sense? What does it imply of others' probable feeling or action? 5. How does avow
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compare with confess?
EXAMPLES.
And, but herself, ---- no parallel.
The child ---- his fault and was pardoned by his parent.
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AWFUL (page 70).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what matters should awful properly be restricted? 2. Is awful always interchangeable with alarming or