English Synonyms and Antonyms

chivalrous? 3. How do these words differ from venturesome? 4. What is especially denoted by fearless and
intrepid? 5. What does valiant tell of results? 6. What ideas are combined in heroic?
EXAMPLES.
A ---- man is also full of faith.
Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In ---- youth we tempt the heights of Arts.
Thy danger chiefly lies in acting well; No crime's so great as ---- to excel.
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BUSINESS (page 88).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of barter? 2. What does business add to the meaning of barter? 3. What is
occupation? Is it broader than business? 4. What is a vocation? 5. What (in the strict sense) is an avocation? 6.
What is implied in profession? pursuit? 7. What is a transaction? 8. How does trade differ from commerce? 9.
What is work? 10. What is an art in the industrial sense? a craft?
EXAMPLES.
A man must serve his time to every ----.
We turn to dust, and all our mightiest ----s die too.
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CALCULATE (page 90).
QUESTIONS.
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1. How do you distinguish between count and calculate? compute, reckon and estimate? 2. Which is used
mostly with regard to future probabilities? 3. Do we use compute or estimate of numbers exactly known? 4.
Of compute, calculate, and estimate, which is used with especial reference to the future?
EXAMPLES.
There were 4046 men in the district, by actual ----.
The time of the eclipse was ---- to a second.
We ask them to ---- approximately the cost of the building.
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CALL (page 91).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of call? 2. Do we ever apply bellow and roar to human sounds? 3. Can you
give more than one sense of cry? 4. Are shout and scream more or less expressive than call? 5. Which of the
words in this group are necessarily and which ordinarily applied to articulate utterance? Which rarely, if ever,
so used?
EXAMPLES.
---- for the robin redbreast and the wren.
The pioneers could hear the savages ---- outside.
I ---- my servant and he came.
The captain ---- in a voice of thunder to the helmsman, "Put your helm hard aport!"
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CALM (page 91).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what classes of objects or states of mind do we apply calm? collected? quiet? placid? serene? still?
tranquil? 2. Do the antonyms boisterous, excited, ruffled, turbulent, and wild, also apply to the same? 3. Can
you contrast calm and quiet? 4. How many of the preceding adjectives can be applied to water? 5. How does
composed differ from calm?
EXAMPLES.
The possession of a ---- conscience is an estimable blessing.
The water is said to be always ---- in the ocean depths.
---- on the listening ear of night Fall heaven's melodious strains.
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CANCEL (page 92).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the difference in method involved in the verbs cancel, efface, erase, expunge, and obliterate? 2.
Which suggest the most complete removal of all trace of a writing? 3. How do the figurative uses of these
words compare with the literal? 4. Is it possible to obliterate or efface that which has been previously