English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 158

English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 158

QUESTIONS.


1. What is _history_? How does it relate events? To what cla.s.s 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.


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 G.o.d? 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.


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 ----.


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 ---- mans the n.o.blest work of G.o.d.


No form of pure, undisguised murder will be any longer allowed to confound itself with the necessities of ---- warfare.


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.


Ample s.p.a.ces oer the smooth and ---- pavement.


The prominent lines in Greek architecture were ----, and not vertical.


HUNT (page 203).


QUESTIONS.