The ship was crowded with —— mostly from Germany.
—— are pouring into the United States often at the rate of half a million a year.
1. What are the distinctive senses of employ and use? Give instances. 2. What does use often imply as to materials used? 3. How does hire compare with employ?
The young man had been —— by the firm for several months and had proved faithful in every respect.
The church was then ready to —— a pastor.
What one has, one ought to ——: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.
1. What is it to end, and what reference does end have to intention or expectation? 2. What do close, complete, conclude, and finish signify as to expectation or appropriateness? Give instances. 3. What specially distinctive sense has finish? 4. Does terminate refer to reaching an arbitrary or an appropriate end? 5. What does stop signify?
The life was suddenly ——.
The train —— long enough for the passengers to get off, then whirled on.
1. What is the end? 2. What is the distinctive meaning of extremity? 3. How does extremity compare with end? 4. What reference is implied in extremity? 5. What is the meaning of tip? point? How does extremity differ in use from the two latter words? 6. What is a terminus? What specific meaning has the word in modern travel? 7. What is the meaning of termination, and of what is it chiefly used? expiration? limit?
Seeing that death, a necessary —— will come when it will come.
All rejoice at the successful —— of the vast undertaking.
He that endureth to the —— shall be saved.
Do not turn back when you are just at the ——.
1. What is it to attempt? to endeavor? To what sort of exertion does endeavor especially apply? 2. How does essay differ from attempt and endeavor in its view of the results of the action? 3. What is implied in undertake? Give an instance. 4. What does strive suggest? 5. How does try compare with the other words of the group?
—— to enter in at the strait gate.
1. What is an effort? an exertion? Which includes the other? 2. How does attempt differ from effort? 3. What is a struggle? 4. What is an essay, and for what purpose is it made? 5. What is an endeavor, and how is it distinguished from effort? from attempt?
Youth is a blunder; manhood a ——; old age a regret.
So vast an —— required more capital than he could command at that time. Others combining with him enabled him to succeed with it.
After a few spasmodic ——, he abandoned all —— at improvement.
1. What is the meaning of bear as applied to care, pain, grief, and the like? 2. What does endure add to the meaning of bear? 3. How do allow and permit compare with the words just mentioned? 4. How do put up with and tolerate[425] compare with allow and permit? 5. What is the special sense of afford? How does it come into connection with the words of this group? 6. What is the sense of brook? 7. Of what words does abide combine the meanings?
Charity —— long and is kind; charity —— all things.
1. What is an enemy? an adversary? 2. What distinction is there between the two words as to the purpose implied? 3. What is an antagonist? an opponent? a competitor? a rival? 4. How does foe compare with enemy?
He makes no friend who never made a ——.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our —— is our helper.
1. What is enmity? 2. How does animosity differ from enmity? 3. What is hostility? What is meant by hostilities between nations? 4. What is bitterness? acrimony? 5. How does antagonism compare with the words above mentioned?
Let all ——, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.
But their ——, tho smothered for a while, burnt with redoubled violence.
The carnal mind is —— against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
1. What is it to entertain mentally? to amuse? 2. What is the distinctive sense of divert? 3. Can one be amused or entertained who is not diverted? 4. What is it to recreate? to beguile?
1. What do entertainment and recreation imply? How, accordingly, do they rank among the lighter matters of life? 2. How do amusement and pastime differ? 3. On what plane are sports? How do they compare with entertainment and recreation? 4. How do amusement and enjoyment compare?
It is as —— to fools to do mischief.
No true heart can find —— in another's pain or grief.
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave —— to the spectators.
And so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent —— than angling.
1. In what sense was enthusiasm formerly used? 2. What is now its prevalent and controlling meaning? 3. How does zeal differ from enthusiasm?
An ardent —— leads to great results in exposing certain evils.
His —— was contagious and they rushed into battle.
The precept had its use; it could make men feel it right to be humane, and desire to be so, but it could never inspire them with an —— of humanity.
1. To what does entrance refer? 2. What do admittance and admission add to the meaning of entrance? 3. To what does admittance refer? To what additional matters does admission refer? Illustrate. 4. What is the figurative use of entrance?
—— was obtained by a side-door, and a good position secured to the crowded hall.
No —— except on business.
He was never so engrossed with cares of state that the needy could not have —— to him.
However carefully church-membership may be guarded, unworthy members will sometimes gain ——.
1. What do we mean when we say that a person is envious? 2. What is the difference between envious and jealous? 3. Is an envious spirit ever good? 4.[427] Is jealous capable of being used in a good sense? 5. In what sense is suspicious used?
Neither be thou —— against the workers of iniquity.
—— in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel.
1. What is the derivation and the original signification of equivocal? of ambiguous? How do the two words compare in present use? 2. What is the meaning of enigmatical? 3. How do doubtful and dubious compare? 4. In what sense is questionable used? suspicious?
An —— statement may result from the thoughtless use of a single word that is capable of more than one meaning.
1. What is the difference between esteem and estimate? 2. Is esteem now used of concrete valuation? 3. What is its chief present use? 4. What is its meaning in popular use as said of persons?
The loss of conscience or honor is one that can not be ——.
1. What is the meaning of eternal in the fullest sense? 2. To what being, in that sense, may it be applied? 3. In what does everlasting fall short of the meaning of eternal? 4. How does endless agree with and differ from everlasting? 5. In what inferior senses are everlasting and interminable used? 6. Is eternal, in good speech or writing, ever brought down to such inferior use?
Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from ——.
It were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with —— motion.
1. How do event and incident differ etymologically? 2. Which is the greater and[428] more important? Give examples. 3. How does circumstance compare with incident? 4. What is the primary meaning of occurrence? 5. What is an episode? 6. How does event differ from end? 7. What meaning does event often have when applied to the future?
Coming —— cast their shadows before.
1. In what are all and both alike? any, each, and every? 2. How does any differ from each and every? 3. How do each and every differ from all? 4. How does each compare with every? with both? 5. What does either properly denote? In what other sense is it often used? What is the objection to the latter use?
—— person in the room arose to his feet.
A free pardon was offered to —— who should instantly lay down their arms.
As the garrison marched out, the victorious troops stood in arms on —— side of the way.
In order to keep his secret inviolate, he revealed it privately to —— of his most intimate friends.
—— person giving such information shall be duly rewarded.
1. How do apparent and evident compare? 2. What is the special sense of manifest? How does it compare in strength with evident? 3. What is the sense of obvious? 4. How wide is the range of visible? 5. How does discernible compare with visible? What does it imply as to the observer's action? 6. What is the sense of palpable and tangible? conspicuous?
A paradox is a real truth in the guise of an —— absurdity or contradiction.
The prime minister was —— by his absence.
The statement is a —— absurdity.
On a comparison of the two works the plagiarism was ——.
These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, ——.
1. What is the etymological meaning of example? 2. What two contradictory meanings does example derive from this primary sense? 3. How does example differ from sample? 4. How does it compare with model? with pattern? 5. How does exemplar agree with, and differ from example? 6. What is an exemplification? an ensample?
I bid him look into the lives of men as tho himself a mirror, and from others to take an —— for himself.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops and the —— which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow.
History is an —— of philosophy.
The commander was resolved to make an —— to deter others from the like offense.
1. What is excess? Is it used in the favorable or unfavorable sense? 2. What is extravagance? 3. What is exorbitance? 4. What kind of excess do overplus and superabundance denote? lavishness and profusion? 5. Is surplus used in the favorable or unfavorable sense? 6. To what do redundance and redundancy chiefly refer? 7. What words are used as synonyms of excess in the moral sense?
Saving requires self-denial, and —— is the death of self-denial.
Where there is great —— there usually follows corresponding ——.
—— of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Haste brings ——, and —— brings want.
The —— of the demand caused unfeigned surprise.
More of the present woes of the world are due to —— than to any other single cause.
—— of language often weakens the impression of what would be impressive in sober statement.
1. What is the meaning of execute? of administer? of enforce? 2. How are the words applied in special cases? Give instances. 3. What secondary meaning has administer?
It is the place of the civil magistrate to —— the laws.
The pasha gave a signal and three attendants seized the culprit, and promptly —— the bastinado.
I can not illustrate a moral duty without at the same time ——ing a precept of our religion.
1. What is the meaning of exercise apart from all qualifying words? 2. How does exercise in that sense differ from exertion? 3. How may exercise be brought up to the full meaning of exertion? 4. What is practise? How does it differ from exercise? 5. How is practise discriminated from such theory or profession? 6. What is drill?
Regular —— tends to keep body and mind in the best working order.
—— in time becomes second nature.
By constant —— the most difficult feats may be done with no apparent ——.
1. What is cost? expense? 2. How are these words now commonly differentiated? 3. What is the meaning of outlay? of outgo?
Which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the ——, whether he have sufficient to finish it.
The entire receipts have not equaled the ——.
When the —— is more than the income, if the income can not be increased, it becomes an absolute necessity to reduce the ——.
1. To what are explicit and express alike opposed? 2. How do the two words differ from each other?
I came here at this critical juncture by the —— order of Sir John St. Clare.
The language of the proposition was too —— to admit of doubt.
Now the Spirit speaketh ——ly that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith.
1. What did extemporaneous originally mean? 2. What has it now come to signify in common use? 3. What is the original meaning of impromptu? The present meaning? 4. How does the impromptu remark often differ from the extemporaneous? 5. How does unpremeditated compare with the words above mentioned?
In —— prayer, what men most admire, God least regardeth.
As a speaker, he excelled in —— address, while his opponent was at a loss to answer him because not gifted in the same way.
1. What is the derivation, and what is the original meaning of exterminate? eradicate? extirpate? 2. To what are these words severally applied?
Since the building of the Pacific railroads in the United States, the buffalo has been quite ——.
The evil of intemperance is one exceedingly difficult to ——.
No inveterate improver should ever tempt me to —— the dandelions from the green carpet of my lawn.
1. What are the chief meanings of faint? 2. How is faint a synonym of feeble or purposeless? of irresolute or timid? of dim, faded, or indistinct?
1. What is belief? 2. How does credence compare with belief? 3. What is conviction? assurance? 4. What is an opinion? 5. How does a persuasion compare with an opinion? 6. What is a doctrine? a creed? 7. What are confidence and reliance? 8. What is trust? 9. What elements are combined in faith? 10. How is belief often used in popular language as a precise equivalent of faith? 11. How is belief discriminated from faith in the strict religious sense?
—— is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Put not your —— in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
—— is largely involuntary; a mathematical demonstration can not be doubted by a sane mind capable of understanding the terms and following the steps.
Every one of us, whatever our speculative ——, knows better than he practises, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
There are few greater dangers for an army in the face of an enemy than undue ——.
1. In what sense may a person be called faithful? 2. In what sense may one be called trusty? 3. Is faithful commonly said of things as well as persons? is trusty? 4. What is the special difference of meaning between the two words? Give examples.
Be thou —— unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
1. What is fame? Is it commonly used in the favorable or unfavorable sense? 2. What are reputation and repute, and in which sense commonly used? 3. What is notoriety? 4. From what do eminence and distinction result? 5. How does celebrity compare with fame? 6. How does renown compare with fame? 7. What is the import of honor? of glory?
Saying, Amen: Blessing and ——, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and ——, and power and might, be unto our God for ever and ever.
A good —— is more valuable than money.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it ——.
1. What is fanaticism? bigotry? 2. What do fanaticism and bigotry commonly include? 3. What is intolerance? 4. What is the distinctive meaning of superstition? 5. What is credulity? Is it distinctively religious?
—— is a senseless fear of God.
The fierce —— of the Moslems was the mainspring of their early conquests.
The —— that will believe nothing contrary to a creed is often joined with a blind —— that will believe anything in favor of it.
1. What is the meaning of fanciful? 2. What does fantastic add to the meaning of fanciful? 3. How does grotesque especially differ from the fanciful or fantastic? 4. How does visionary differ from fanciful?[433]
1. What is an intellectual fancy? 2. How does a conceit differ from a fancy? a conception from both? 3. What is an emotional or personal fancy? 4. What is fancy as a faculty of the mind?
Elizabeth united the occasional —— of her sex with that sense and sound policy in which neither man nor woman ever excelled her.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one ——, and that is a wrong one.
If she were to take a —— to anybody in the house, she would soon settle, but not till then.
1. To what language do farewell and good-by belong etymologically? How do they differ? 2. From what language have adieu and congé been adopted into English? 3. What is the special significance of congé? 4. What are valediction and valedictory?
1. What is the generic term of this group? 2. What is fear? Is it sudden or lingering? In view of what class of dangers? 3. What is the etymological meaning of horror? What does the word signify in accepted usage? 4. What are the characteristics of affright, fright, and terror? 5. How is fear contrasted with fright and terror in actual or possible effects? 6. What is panic? What of the numbers affected by it? 7. What is dismay? How does it compare with fright and terror?[434]
Even the bravest men may be swept along in a sudden ——.
The ghastly spectacle filled every beholder with ——.
A lingering —— crept upon him as he waited in the darkness.
1. How are female and feminine discriminated? 2. What is the difference between a female voice and a feminine voice? 3. How are womanly and womanish discriminated in use?
Notice, too, how precious are these —— qualities in the sick room.
The demand for closet-room is no mere —— fancy, but the good sense of the sex.
1. What are fetters in the primary sense? 2. What are manacles and handcuffs designed to fasten or hold? gyves? 3. What are shackles and what are they intended to fasten or hold? 4. Of what material are all these restraining devices commonly composed? By what general name are they popularly known? 5. What are bonds and of what material composed? 6. Which of these words are used in the metaphorical sense?
1. What is a feud? Of what is it used? 2. Is a quarrel in word or act? contention? strife? contest? 3. How does quarrel compare in importance with the other words cited? 4. What does an affray always involve? To what may a brawl or broil be confined? 5. How do these words compare in dignity with contention, contest, controversy, and dissension?