English Synonyms and Antonyms

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EXAMPLES.
The ---- of an organ by the violinist was perfect.
This key is a ----, and will open the lock.
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The signature was merely a printed ----.
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DUTY (page 142).
QUESTIONS.
1. Do we use duty and right of civil things? or business and obligation of moral things? 2. Does responsibility
imply connection with any other person or thing?
EXAMPLES.
I go because it is my ----.
We recognize a ---- for the good conduct of our own children, but do we not also rest under some ---- to
society to exercise a good influence over the children of others?
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EAGER (page 142).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinction between eager and earnest in the nature of the feeling implied? in the objects toward
which it is directed? 2. How does anxious in this acceptation differ from both eager and earnest?
EXAMPLES.
Hark! the shrill trumpet sounds to horse! away! My soul's in arms, and ---- for the fray.
I am in ----. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard!
I am ---- to hear of your welfare, and of the prospects of the enterprise.
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EASE (page 143).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does ease denote, in the sense here considered? Does it apply to action or condition? 2. Is facility
active or passive? readiness? 3. What does ease imply, and to what may it be limited? 4. What does facility
imply? readiness? 5. To what is expertness limited?
EXAMPLES.
He plays the violin with great ----, and delights an audience.
Whatever he did was done with so much ----, In him alone 'twas natural to please.
It is often said with equal truth that we ought to take advantage of the ---- which children possess of learning.
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EDUCATION (page 143).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the distinctive meaning of education? instruction? teaching? 2. How is instruction or teaching
related to education? 3. How does training differ from teaching? 4. What is discipline? tuition? 5. What are
breeding and nurture, and how do they differ from each other? 6. How are knowledge and learning related to
education?
EXAMPLES.
The true purpose of ---- is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
By ----, we do learn ourselves to know And what to man, and what to God we owe.
---- maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
For natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by ----; and ----s themselves do give forth
directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
A branch of ---- is often put to an improper use, for fear of its being idle.
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EFFRONTERY (page 144).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is audacity? hardihood? 2. What special element does effrontery add to the meaning of audacity and
hardihood? 3. What is impudence? shamelessness? 4. How does effrontery compare with these words? 5.
What is boldness? Is it used in a favorable or an unfavorable sense?
EXAMPLES.
When they saw the ---- of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they
marvelled.
I ne'er heard yet That any of these bolder vices wanted Less ---- to gainsay what they did, Than to perform it
first.
I am not a little surprised at the easy ---- with which political gentlemen in and out of Congress take it upon
them to say that there are not a thousand men in the North who sympathize with John Brown.
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EGOTISM (page 145).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is egoism and how does it differ from egotism? 2. What is self-assertion? self-conceit? 3. Does
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