English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 119

English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 119

ALLEGE (page 31).


QUESTIONS.


1. Which is the primary and which the secondary word, _allege_ or _adduce_? Why? 2. How much of certainty is implied in _allege_? 3. How much does one admit when he speaks of an _alleged_ fact, doc.u.ment, signature, or the like?


EXAMPLES.


In many ---- cases of haunted houses, the spirits have not ventured to face an armed man who has pa.s.sed the night there.


I can not ---- one thing and mean another. If I cant pray I will not make believe!


ALLEGORY (page 33).


QUESTIONS.


1. How does _allegory_ compare with _simile_? _Simile_ with _metaphor_?


2. What are the distinctions between _allegory_, _fable_, and _parable_?


3. Under what general term are all these included? 4. To what is _fiction_ now most commonly applied?


EXAMPLES.


In argument ---- are like songs in love: They much describe; they nothing prove.


And He spake many things unto them in ----, saying, Behold a sower went forth to sow.


ALLEVIATE (page 33).


QUESTIONS.


1. How does _alleviate_ differ from _relieve_? from _remove_? 2. Is _alleviate_ used of persons? 3. What are the special significations of _abate_? _a.s.suage_? _mitigate_? _moderate_? 4. How does _alleviate_ compare with _allay_? (Compare synonyms for ALLAY.)


EXAMPLES.


To pity distress is but human; to ---- it is G.o.dlike.


But, O! what mighty magician can ---- A womans envy?


ALLIANCE (page 34).


QUESTIONS.


1. What is an _alliance_? how does it differ from _partnership_? from _coalition_? from _league_? 2. How does a _confederacy_ or _federation_ differ from a _union_?


EXAMPLES.


The two nations formed an offensive and defensive ---- against the common enemy.


Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled, In the Parliament of man, the ---- of the world.


Business ---- are the warrant for the existence of trade ----.


ALLOT (page 34).


QUESTIONS.


1. Does _allot_ refer to time, place, or person? 2. To what does _appoint_ refer? _a.s.sign_? 3. How does _destine_ differ from _appoint_?


4. How does _award_ differ from _allot_, _appoint_, and _a.s.sign_?


EXAMPLES.


Man hath his daily work of body or mind ----.


He ----eth the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down.


The king is but as the hind ...


Who may not wander from the ---- field Before his work be done.


ALLOW (page 35).


QUESTIONS.


1. What is the difference between _allow_ and _permit_? between a _permit_ and _permission_? 2. What instances can you give of the use of these words, also of _tolerate_ and _submit_? 3. What does _yield_ imply?


EXAMPLES.


Frederick ---- the Austrians to cross the mountains that he might attack them on a field of his own choosing.