English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 115

English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 115

He who does the truth will need no instruction as to individual ----s.


---- is the truth of thought.


The ---- is done.


ACTIVE (page 17).


QUESTIONS.


1. With what two sets of words is _active_ allied? 2. How does _active_ differ from _busy_? from _industrious_? 3. How do _active_ and _restless_ compare? 4. To what sort of activity does _officious_ refer?


6. What are some chief antonyms of _active_?


EXAMPLES.


Being of an ---- disposition and without settled purpose or definite occupation, she became ---- as a hornet.


He had his ---- days and hours, but could never be properly said to be ----.


An ---- attendant instantly seized upon my baggage.


The true student is ---- from the mere love of learning, independently of its rewards.


Ac.u.mEN (page 18).


QUESTIONS.


1. How do _sharpness_, _acuteness_, _penetration_, and _insight_ compare with _ac.u.men_? 2. What is the special characteristic of _ac.u.men_? To what order of mind does it belong? 3. What is _sagacity_? Is it attributed to men or brutes? 4. What is _perspicacity_? 5. What is _shrewdness_? Is it ordinarily good or evil? 6. Give ill.u.s.trations of the uses of the above words as regards the possessors of the corresponding qualities.


EXAMPLES.


The treatise displays great critical ----.


The Indians had developed a practical ---- that enabled them to follow a trail by scarcely perceptible signs almost as unerringly as the hound by scent.


ADD (page 18).


QUESTIONS.


1. How is _add_ related to _increase_? How does it differ from _multiply_? 2. What does _augment_ signify? Of what is it ordinarily used? 3. To what does _amplify_ apply? 4. In what ways may a discourse or treatise be _amplified_?


EXAMPLES.


Care to our coffin ---- a nail no doubt; And every grin, so merry, draws one out.


---- up at night, what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do.


ADDRESS, _v._ (page 19).


QUESTIONS.


1. What does _accost_ always signify? _greet_? _hail_? 2. How does _salute_ differ from _accost_ or _greet_? _address_? 3. What is it to _apostrophize_?


EXAMPLES.


The pale snowdrop is springing To ---- the glowing sun.


---- to the Chief who in triumph advances.


His faithful dog ---- the smiling guest.


---- ye heroes! heaven-born band!


Who fought and died in freedoms cause.


ADDRESS, _n._ (page 20).


QUESTIONS.


1. What is _address_ in the sense here considered? 2. What is _tact_? 3.


What qualities are included in _address_?


EXAMPLES.


And the tear that is wiped with a little ---- May be followd perhaps by a smile.


The ---- of doing doth expresse No other but the doers willingnesse.


I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking; I could wish ---- would invent some other custom of entertainment.