English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 193

It was something altogether ----, as when G.o.d said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.

With an imagination of intense vividness and ---- activity, Choate was as practical as the most sordid capitalist that ever became an "incarnation of fat dividends."

SUPPORT (page 348).

QUESTIONS.

1. What do _support_ and _sustain_ alike signify? 2. How does _sustain_ surpa.s.s _support_ in meaning and force? 3. What is the force and use of _bear_ in this connection? 4. What is it to _maintain_? 5. How does _maintain_ compare with _support_ as to fulness and as to dignity? 6.

What is it to _prop_? What is the limit upon the meaning of this word?

EXAMPLES.

And Cain said, My punishment is great than I can ----.

You take my house when you do take the prop That doth ---- my house.

Can a soul like mine, Unus'd to power, and form'd for humbler scenes, ---- the splendid miseries of greatness?

While less expert, tho stronger far, The Gael ----ed unequal war.

SUPPOSE (page 348).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _suppose_? 2. How does _conjecture_ differ from _suppose_? 3. What does _think_ signify in the sense here considered?

How does it compare with _conjecture_ or _suppose_?

EXAMPLES.

Newton ----ed that if the earth were to be so compressed as to be absolutely without pores, its dimensions might not exceed a cubic inch.

Let it not be ----ed that principles and opinions always go together.

SYNONYMOUS (page 349).

QUESTIONS.

1. Are there any _synonymous_ words in the strict sense of the term? 2.

What is meant by _synonymous_ words? 3. What are the two common faults with reference to _synonymous_ words or _synonyms_?

EXAMPLES.

The great source of a loose style is the injudicious use of those words termed ----.

To raise, with fitting observances, over the ruins of the historic fortress [Sumter] the ---- flag which had waved over it during its first bombardment.

SYSTEM (page 350).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _order_, in the sense here considered? 2. What does _method_ denote? 3. What is a _system_? 4. To what does _manner_ refer? 5. To what does _regularity_ apply? 6. Can there be _order_ without _regularity_ or _regularity_ without _order_, and how?

EXAMPLES.

If this be madness, there is ---- in it.

A ---- is ... an organized body of truth, or truths arranged under one and the same idea, which idea is as the life or soul which a.s.similates all those truths.

TEACH (page 353).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _teach_? 2. How does _instruct_ surpa.s.s _teach_ in signification? 3. What secondary sense has _instruct_? 4. What is the full meaning of _educate_? 5. What is it to _train_? 6. To what is _train_ commonly applied where _educate_ could not well be used? 7. What is it to _discipline_? 8. What does _nurture_ signify, and how does it compare with _educate_?

EXAMPLES.

Plato returned to Athens and began to ----; like his master, he ---- without money and without price.

For the most effective mechanical work both mind and hand must be ----ed in childhood.

The Highlanders flocking to him from all quarters, though ill-armed, and worse ----ed, made him undervalue any enemy who, he thought, was yet to encounter him.

TERM (page 354).

QUESTIONS.