English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 175

To each his ----s; all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's ----, The unfeeling for his own.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ----, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature.

PALLIATE (page 261).

QUESTIONS.

1. How do _cloak_ and _palliate_ agree in original meaning? How do they differ in the derived senses? 2. What is it to _extenuate_, and how does that word compare with _palliate_?

EXAMPLES.

Speak of me as I am; nothing ---- Nor aught set down in malice.

We would not dissemble nor ---- [our transgressions] before the face of Almighty G.o.d, our heavenly Father.

I shall never attempt to ---- my own foibles by exposing the error of another.

PARDON, _v._ (page 262).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _pardon_? 2. To what does _forgive_ refer? 3. How do _pardon_ and _forgive_ differ in use in accordance with the difference in meaning? 4. What is it to _remit_? to _condone_? to _excuse_?

EXAMPLES.

How many will say ----, And find a kind of license in the sound To hate a little longer!

I ---- him, as heaven shall ---- me.

To err is human, to ----, divine.

PARDON, _n._ (page 262).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _acquittal_? How does it differ from _pardon_ as regards the person acquitted or pardoned? 2. Is an innocent person ever pardoned? 3.

What is _oblivion_? _amnesty_? _absolution_?

EXAMPLES.

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called ----.

----, not wrath, is G.o.d's best attribute.

---- to the injured does belong, But they ne'er ---- who have done the wrong.

PART, _n._ (page 264).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _part_? 2. What is a _fragment_? a _piece_? 3. What do _division_ and _fraction_ signify? 4. What is a _portion_? 5. What is a _share_? an _instalment_? a _particle_? 6. What do _component_, _const.i.tuent_, _ingredient_, and _element_ signify? How do they differ from one another? 7. What is a _subdivision_?

EXAMPLES.

The best ---- of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every ---- ...

Can not but by annihilating die.

Many cheap houses were built to be sold by ----s.

PARTICLE (page 264).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _particle_? 2. What does _atom_ etymologically signify?

What is its meaning in present scientific use? 3. What is a _molecule_, and of what is it regarded as composed? 4. What is an _element_ in chemistry?

EXAMPLES.

Lucretius held that the universe originated from a fortuitous concourse of ----s.

But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of ----s, The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.

Many aquatic animals, whose food consists of small ---- diffused through the water, have an apparatus for creating currents so as to bring such ---- within their reach.

PATIENCE (page 265).