To be —— for war is one of the most effectual ways of preserving peace.
He who is not —— to-day will be less so to-morrow.
1. How does alien differ from foreign? 2. Is a foreigner by birth necessarily an alien? 3. Are the people of one country while residing in their own land foreigners or aliens to the people of other lands? 4. How can one residing in a foreign country cease to be an alien in that country? 5. How do foreign and alien differ in their figurative use?
What is religion? Not a —— inhabitant, nor something —— to our nature, which comes and takes up its abode in the soul.
—— from the commonwealth of Israel and —— from the covenants of promise.
1. How does alike compare with similar? with identical? 2. What is the distinction often made between equal and equivalent? 3. What is the sense of analogous? (Compare synonyms for ANALOGY.) 4. In what sense is homogeneous used?
Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful; never the —— for two moments together.
1. What is the distinction between allay and alleviate? Which word implies a partial[390] removal of the cause of suffering, or an actual lightening of the burden? 2. With which of the above words are we to class appease, pacify, soothe, and the like? 3. With what words is alleviate especially to be grouped? (See synonyms for ALLEVIATE.)
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, document, signature, or the like?
In many —— cases of haunted houses, the spirits have not ventured to face an armed man who has passed the night there.
I can not —— one thing and mean another. If I can't pray I will not make believe!
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?
And He spake many things unto them in ——, saying, Behold a sower went forth to sow.
1. How does alleviate differ from relieve? from remove? 2. Is alleviate used of persons? 3. What are the special significations of abate? assuage? mitigate? moderate? 4. How does alleviate compare with allay? (Compare synonyms for ALLAY.)
To pity distress is but human; to —— it is Godlike.
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?
The two nations formed an offensive and defensive —— against the common enemy.
Business —— are the warrant for the existence of trade ——.
1. Does allot refer to time, place, or person? 2. To what does appoint refer? assign? 3. How does destine differ from appoint? 4. How does award differ from allot, appoint, and assign?
Man hath his daily work of body or mind ——.
He ——eth the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down.
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?
Frederick —— the Austrians to cross the mountains that he might attack them on a field of his own choosing.
State churches have ever been unwilling to —— dissent.
1. What is the distinctive sense of allude? of advert? of refer? 2. How do the above words compare with mention as to explicitness? 3. How do hint and insinuate differ?
Late in the eighteenth century Cowper did not venture to do more than —— to the great allegorist [Bunyan], saying:
1. What is it to allure? 2. How does allure differ from attract? from lure? 3. What does coax express? 4. What is it to cajole? to decoy? to inveigle? 5. How does seduce differ from tempt? 6. Is win used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?
He had a strange gift of —— friends, and of —— the love of women.
1. Into what two groups are the synonyms for also naturally divided? 2. Which words simply add a fact or thought? 3. Which distinctly imply that what is added is like that to which it is added?
1. What is the difference between choice and alternative in the strict use of language? 2. Is alternative always so severely restricted by leading writers? 3. What do choice, pick, election, and preference imply regarding one's wishes? alternative? resources?
Homer delights to call Ulysses "the man of many ——."
1. What is it to amass? 2. How is amass distinguished from accumulate? 3. Is interest amassed or accumulated? 4. How does hoard differ from store?
By daring and successful speculation, he —— a prodigious fortune.
The sum was the —— savings of an industrious and frugal life.
1. What is the difference between amateur and connoisseur? between connoisseur and critic? 2. Which word carries a natural implication of superficialness? 3. How do novice and tyro differ from amateur?
The greatest works in poetry, painting, and sculpture have not been done by ——.
The mere —— who produces nothing, and whose business is only to judge and enjoy.
1. What do amazement and astonishment agree in expressing? 2. How do the two words differ? 3. What is the meaning of awe? of admiration? 4. How does surprise differ from astonishment and amazement? 5. What are the characteristics of wonder?
1. What two senses has ambition? 2. How does ambition differ from aspiration? Which is the higher word? 3. What is the distinctive sense of emulation? 4. Has emulation a good side? How does it compare with aspiration?
1. What is it to amend? 2. How do advance, better, and improve differ from amend? 3. Are these words applied to matters decidedly bad, foul, or evil? 4. What is the difference between amend and emend?
Return ye now every man from his evil way, and —— your doings.
The construction here is difficult, and the text at this point has been variously ——.
Human characters and conditions never reach such perfection that they can not be ——.
1. To what does lovely often apply? 2. To what does amiable always apply? 3. How do agreeable, attractive, and charming differ from amiable? Give examples. 4. Is a good-natured person necessarily agreeable? an amiable person?
1. What is the specific meaning of analogy? 2. What is affinity? coincidence? 3. Does coincidence necessarily involve resemblance or likeness? 4. What is parity of reasoning? 5. What is a similitude? 6. How do resemblance and similarity differ from analogy?
The two boys bore a close —— to each other.
It is not difficult to trace the —— of the home to the state.
1. What are the especial characteristics of anger? How does it differ from indignation? exasperation? rage? wrath? ire?
My enemy has long borne me a feeling of ——.
Christ was filled with —— at the hypocrisy of the Jews.
I was overcome by a sudden feeling of ——.
1. What is an animal? a brute? a beast? 2. Is man an animal? 3. What is implied if we speak of any particular man as an animal? a brute? a beast? 4. What forms of existence does the word creature include? 5. What are the animals of a country or region collectively called?
It is only within the last half century that societies have been organized for the prevention of cruelty to ——.
O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into ——!
Take a —— out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.
1. What is it to announce? 2. Does it apply chiefly to the past or the future? 3. To what is advertise chiefly applied? propound? promulgate? publish?
The Sphinx —— its riddles with life and death depending on the answer.
Through the rare felicity of the times you are permitted to think what you please and to —— what you please.
The songs of birds and the wild flowers in the woodlands —— the coming of spring.
1. What is a verbal answer? 2. In what wider sense is answer used? 3. What is a reply? a rejoinder? 4. How does an answer to a charge, an argument, or the like, differ from a reply or rejoinder? 5. What is the special quality of a response? 6. What is a retort? How does it differ from repartee?
I can no other —— make, but thanks.
He could not be content without finding a —— in Nature to every mood of his mind; and he does find it.
Nothing is so easy and inviting as the —— of abuse and sarcasm; but it is a paltry and unprofitable contest.
1. What are the two contrasted senses of anticipate? 2. Which is now the more common? 3. How does anticipate differ from expect? from hope? from apprehend? 4. How does anticipation differ from presentiment? from apprehension? from foreboding? 5. What special element is involved in foretaste? How do foresight and forethought go beyond the meaning of anticipation?
England —— every man to do his duty.
If I know your sect, I —— your argument.
The happy —— of a renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just.
1. How is antipathy to be distinguished from dislike? from antagonism? from aversion? 2. What is uncongeniality? How does it differ from antipathy? Which is positive? and which negative?
Christianity is the solvent of all race ——.
1. To what does antique refer? antiquated? 2. Is the difference between them a matter of time? Give examples. 3. Can a modern building be antiquated? Can it be antique? 4. What is the significance of quaint?
1. What is anxiety in the primary sense? Is it mental or physical? 2. How does anxiety differ from anguish? 3. What kind of possibility does anxiety always suggest? 4. How does it differ from apprehension, fear, dread, etc., in this regard? 5. What is worry? fretfulness? 6. Does perplexity involve anxiety?[397]
Superstition invested the slightest incidents of life with needless ——.
—— is harder than work, and far less profitable.
1. What is apathy? 2. How does it differ from the Saxon word unfeelingness? from indifference? from insensibility? from unconcern? 3. How does stoicism differ from apathy?
He sank into a —— from which it was impossible to arouse him.
1. What change of meaning has apology undergone? 2. What does an apology now always imply? 3. How does an apology differ from an excuse? 4. Which of these words may refer to the future? 5. How does confession differ from apology?
—— only account for that which they do not alter.
Beauty is its own —— for being.
There is no refuge from —— but suicide; and suicide is ——.
1. What two contrasted senses arise from the root meaning of apparent? 2. What is implied when we speak of apparent kindness or apparent neglect? 3. How do presumable and probable differ? 4. What implication is conveyed in seeming? What do we suggest when we speak of "seeming innocence"?
It is not —— that the students will attempt to break the rules again.
It is not yet —— what his motive could have been in committing such an offense.
It is —— that something has been omitted which was essential to complete the construction.
1. Of what kind of demands or impulses is appetite ordinarily used? 2. What demands or tendencies are included in passion? 3. What is implied by passions and appetites when used as contrasted terms?[398]
1. What is the special significance of apportion by which it is distinguished from allot, assign, distribute, or divide? 2. What is the significance of dispense in the transitive use? 3. What is it to appropriate?
Representatives are —— among the several states according to the population.
The treasure was —— and their shares duly —— among the captors.
1. What is an approximation in the mathematical sense? 2. How close an approach to exactness and certainty does approximation imply? 3. How does approximation differ from resemblance and similarity? from approach? 4. How does approximation, as regards the class of objects to which it is applied, differ from nearness, neighborhood, or propinquity?
We have to be content with —— to a solution.
Without faith, there is no real —— to God.
Wit consists in knowing the —— of things which differ, and the difference of things which are alike.
1. What is the difference between arms and armor? 2. In what connection is armor used in modern warfare?
There is constant rivalry between irresistible projectiles and impenetrable ——.
1. What are the essentials of an army? 2. Is an army large or small? 3. What term would be applied to a multitude of armed men without order or organization? 4. In what sense is host used? legion?
For the —— is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous, prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
The still-discordant wavering ——.
1. To what kind of proceedings do indict and arraign apply? 2. How is one indicted? How arraigned? 3. How do these words differ from charge? accuse? censure?
The criminal was —— for trial for his offenses.
Religion does not —— or exclude unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
1. What is an artifice? a device? finesse? 2. In what sense are cheat, maneuver, and imposture always used? 3. In what sense is trick commonly used? 4. What is a fraud? 5. Is wile used in a good or a bad sense? 6. Does the good or the bad sense commonly attach to the words artifice, contrivance, ruse, blind, device, and finesse?
Those who can not gain their ends by force naturally resort to ——.
The enemy were decoyed from their defenses by a skilful ——.
Whoever has even once become notorious by base ——, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief.
1. What is an artist? an artisan? 2. What is an artificer? How related to artist and artisan?
The power depends on the depth of the ——'s insight of that object he contemplates.
Infuse into the purpose with which you follow the various employments and professions of life the sense of beauty, and you are transformed at once from an —— into an ——.
If too many —— turn shopkeepers, the whole natural quantity of that business divided among them all may afford too small a share for each.
1. For what class of objects does one ask? For what does he beg? 2. How do entreat and beseech compare with ask? 3. What is the special sense of implore? of supplicate? 4. How are crave and request distinguished? pray and petition? 5. What kind of asking is implied in demand? in require? How do these two words differ from one another?[400]
The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: —— ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
1. What does associate imply, as used officially? What when used in popular language? 2. Do we speak of associates in crime or wrong? What words are preferred in such connection? (See synonyms for ACCESSORY.) 3. Is companion used in a good or bad sense? 4. How does it differ in use from associate? 5. What is the significance of peer? comrade? consort?