English Synonyms and Antonyms

conceal? How is it chiefly used? 5. What is it to cover? to screen?
EXAMPLES.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to ---- their thoughts.
Ye little stars! ---- your diminished rays.
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HIGH (page 198).
QUESTIONS.
1. What kind of a term is high? What does it signify? Give instances of the relative use of the word. 2. How
does high compare with deep? To what objects may these words be severally applied? 3. What is the special
significance of tall? 4. What element does lofty add to the meaning of high or tall? 5. How do elevated and
eminent compare in the literal sense? in the figurative? 6. How do the words above mentioned compare with
exalted? 7. What contrasted uses has high in the figurative sense? 8. What is towering in the literal, and in the
figurative sense?
EXAMPLES.
A pillar'd shade, ---- overarched, and echoing walks between.
A daughter of the gods, divinely ---- and most divinely fair.
What is that which the breeze on the ---- steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
He knew Himself to sing, and build the ---- rime.
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HINDER (page 199).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to hinder? 2. How does hinder differ from delay? 3. How does hinder compare with prevent? 4.
What is the meaning of retard? 5. What is it to obstruct? to resist? How do these two words compare with
each other?
EXAMPLES.
---- the Devil, and he will flee from you.
My tears must stop, for every drop ---- my needle and thread.
It is the study of mankind to ---- that advance of age or death which can not be ----.
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HISTORY (page 200).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is history? How does it relate events? To what class of events does it apply? 2. How does history
differ from annals or chronicles?
EXAMPLES.
Happy the people whose ---- are dulled.
---- is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.
---- is philosophy teaching by example.
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HOLY (page 200).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of sacred? 2. How does it compare with holy? 3. Which term do we apply directly to
God? 4. In what sense is divine loosely used? What is its more appropriate sense?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- time is quiet as a nun breathless with adoration.
A ---- burden is this life ye bear.
All sects and churches of Christendom hold to some form of the doctrine of the ---- inspiration of the
Christian Scriptures.
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HOME (page 201).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the general sense of abode, dwelling, and habitation? What difference is there in the use of these
words? 2. From what language is home derived? What is its distinctive meaning?
EXAMPLES.
An ---- giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
The attempt to abolish the ideal woman and keep the ideal ---- is a predestinated failure.
A house without love may be a castle or a palace, but it is not a ----.
Love is the life of a true ----.
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HONEST (page 202).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of honest in ordinary use? 2. What is the meaning of honorable? 3. How will the
merely honest and the truly honorable man differ in action? 4. What is honest in the highest and fullest sense?
How, in this sense, does it differ from honorable?
EXAMPLES.
---- labor bears a lovely face.
An ---- man's the noblest work of God.
No form of pure, undisguised murder will be any longer allowed to confound itself with the necessities of ----
warfare.
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HORIZONTAL (page 202).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does horizontal signify? How does it compare with level? 2. From what language is flat derived? 3.
What is its original meaning? its most common present sense? In what derived sense is it often used? 4. What
are the senses of plain and plane?
EXAMPLES.
Sun and moon were in the ---- sea sunk.
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Ample spaces o'er the smooth and ---- pavement.
The prominent lines in Greek architecture were ----, and not vertical.
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HUNT (page 203).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a hunt? 2. For what is a chase or pursuit conducted? a search? 3. What does hunt ordinarily
include? 4. Is it correct to use hunt when search only is contemplated? 5. How are these words used in the
figurative senses?
EXAMPLES.
Among the inalienable rights of man are life, liberty, and the ---- of happiness.
All things have an end, and so did our ---- for lodgings.
The ---- formed the principal amusement of our Norman kings, who for that purpose retained in their
possession forests in every part of the kingdom.
The ---- is up, but they shall know The stag at bay's a dangerous foe.
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HYPOCRISY (page 204).
QUESTIONS.
1. From what language is pretense derived, and what does it signify? 2. What is hypocrisy? 3. What is cant?