English Synonyms and Antonyms

anterior commonly used? prior? 4. Of what is former used? What does former always imply?
EXAMPLES.
These matters have been fully explained in ---- chapters of this work.
The reader will be helped to an understanding of this process by a careful study of the diagram on the ----
page.
In ---- times many things were attributed to witchcraft that now have a scientific explanation.
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PRICE (page 285).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the cost of an article? the price? 2. How do cost and price ordinarily differ? 3. In what exceptional
case may cost and price agree? 4. What does price always imply? 5. What is the meaning of value? How does
market value differ from intrinsic value? 6. How does value differ from worth? 7. To what are charge and
expense ordinarily applied?
EXAMPLES.
---- is the life-giving power of anything; ----, the quantity of labor required to produce it; ----, the quantity of
labor which its possessor will take in exchange for it.
No man can permanently do business by making the ---- of his goods the same as their ---- to him, however
such a method may help him momentarily in an emergency.
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PRIDE (page 286).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is pride? haughtiness? arrogance? disdain? How do these qualities compare with pride? 2. What does
superciliousness imply according to its etymology? 3. How do pride and vanity differ? 4. What difference is
noted between self-conceit and conceit? 5. How do self-respect and self-esteem compare with each other and
with the other words of the group?
EXAMPLES.
---- may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
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There is nothing ---- can so little bear with as ---- itself.
---- is as ill at ease under indifference, as tenderness is under the love which it can not return.
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PRIMEVAL (page 287).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the derivation and signification of aboriginal? autochthonic? primeval? 2. What do prime and
primary denote? What special sense has primary as in reference to a school? 3. How is primordial used? 4.
What does primitive suggest, as in the expressions, the primitive church, primitive simplicity? 5. What is
pristine? 6. How do native and indigenous compare?
EXAMPLES.
Thou from ---- nothingness didst call First chaos, then existence, Lord.
The ---- inhabitants of America are long since extinct, for even the races whom the white men conquered had
themselves supplanted an earlier race.
All the later ages have wondered at and admired the whole-souled consecration of the ---- church.
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PROFIT (page 288).
QUESTIONS.
1. What are returns or receipts? 2. What is profit in the commercial sense? What in the intellectual and moral
sense? 3. What is utility? 4. What does advantage originally signify? Does it now necessarily imply having or
gaining superiority to another person, or securing anything at another's expense? 5. What is gain? benefit?
emolument? 6. To what does expediency especially refer?
EXAMPLES.
Silence has many ----s.
No man can read with ---- that which he can not learn to read with pleasure.
Godliness with contentment is great ----.
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PROGRESS (page 289).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is progress? 2. What do attainment, proficiency, and development imply? 3. What is advance? How
does it differ from progress?
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EXAMPLES.
What is thy ---- compared with an Alexander's, a Mahomet's, a Napoleon's?
And dreams in their ---- have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy.
Human ---- consists in a continual increase in the number of those who, ceasing to live by the animal life
alone and to feel the pleasures of sense only, come to participate in the intellectual life also.
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PROHIBIT (page 290).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to prohibit? 2. How does forbid compare with prohibit? 3. How does prohibit compare with
prevent?
EXAMPLES.
Tho much I want which most would have, Yet still my mind ---- to crave.
The laws of England, from the early Plantagenets, sternly ---- the conversion of malt into alcohol, excepting a
small portion for medicinal purposes.
Human law must ---- many things that human administration of law can not absolutely ----; is not this true
also of the divine government?
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PROMOTE (page 291).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to promote? 2. To what does promote apply? To persons or things, and in what way?
EXAMPLES.
The outlawed pirate of one year was ---- the next to be a governor and his country's representative.
The imperial ensign, which full high ----ed, Shone like a meteor streaming in the wind.
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PROPITIATION (page 291).
QUESTIONS.
1. What did atonement originally denote? What is its present theological and popular sense? 2. What does