1. What is it to
accelerate? to
despatch? 2.
What does the verb speed signify?
hasten?
hurry? What does
hurry
suggest in addition to the meaning of
hasten?
EXAMPLES.
The motion of a falling body is continually ----ed.
The muster-place is Lanrick mead! ---- forth the signal! Norman, ----!
The pulsations of the heart are ----ed by exertion.
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QUOTE (page 298).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does
cite differ from
quote? 2. What is it to
paraphrase? to
plagiarize?
EXAMPLES.
A great man ---- bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory
serves him with a word as
good.
The Devil can ---- Scripture for his purpose.
To appropriate others' thoughts or words mechanically and without credit is to ----.
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RACY (page 299).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what does
racy in the first instance refer?
pungent? 2. How does
piquant differ from
pungent? 3. How
are these words and the word
spicy used in reference to literary products?
EXAMPLES.
Pure mother English, ---- and fresh with idiomatic graces.
The atmosphere was strangely impregnated with the ---- odor of burning peat.
The spruce, the cedar,
and the juniper, with their balsamic breath, filled the air with a ---- fragrance.
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RADICAL (page 299).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the primary meaning of
radical? 2. What contrasted senses are derived from this primary meaning?
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
438
EXAMPLES.
Timidity is a ---- defect in a reformer.
Social and political leaders look to vested interests, and hence are inclined to regard all ---- measures as ----.
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RARE (page 300).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is the meaning of
unique? Can any one of a number of things of the same kind be
unique? 2. What is
the primary meaning of
rare? What added sense is often blended with this primary meaning? 3. Is
extraordinary favorable or unfavorable in meaning?
EXAMPLES.
Nothing is so ---- as time.
That which gives to the Jews their ---- position among the nations is what we are accustomed to regard as their
sacred history.
And what is so ---- as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
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REACH (page 300).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to
reach in the sense here considered? 2. What is it to
arrive? 3. What does
attain add to the
meaning of
arrive? What does
gain add?
EXAMPLES.
And grasping down the boughs I ----ed the shore.
He gathered
the ripe nuts in the fall, And berries that grew by fence and wall So high she could not ---- them
at all.
The heights by great men ----ed and kept Were not ----ed by sudden flight, But they, while their companions
slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
It is only in this way that we can hope to ---- at truth.
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REAL (page 301).
QUESTIONS.
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
439
1. From what is
real derived? What does it mean? 2. From what is the
real distinguished? 3. To what is
actual
opposed? 4. What shades of difference may be pointed out between the four words
actual,
real,
developed,
and
positive?
EXAMPLES.
In ---- life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
If there was any trouble,
---- or impending, affecting those she had served, her place was with them.
This was regarded as proof ---- of conspiracy.
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REASON,
v. (page 302).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to
reason about a matter? 2. From what is
argue derived, and what does it mean? 3. What is it to
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