English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 196

_hireling_? 2. How are _mercenary_ and _venal_ discriminated from _hireling_?

EXAMPLES.

The closing quarter of the nineteenth century may be termed the ---- era of American politics. Never before has legislation been so universally, so unscrupulously, and unblus.h.i.+ngly for sale.

The body of Greeks, immortalized under the name of the Ten Thousand, ... though embarking on a foreign ---- service, were by no means outcasts, or even men of extreme poverty.

It is not the hire, but the working only for the hire that makes the ----.

VENERATION (page 366).

QUESTIONS.

1. By what qualities is _awe_ inspired? 2. What elements are present and what lacking in _awe_? 3. What is _dread_ and by what aroused? 4. How do _reverence_ and _veneration_ differ from _awe_ or _dread_? 5. How does _adoration_ compare with _veneration_?

EXAMPLES.

Man craves an object of ----; and if not supplied with that which G.o.d has appointed, will take what offers.

The Italian climate robs age of its ----, and makes it look newer than it is.

VENIAL (page 367).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what is _venial_ derived, and what does it signify? 2. How does _venial_ compare with _pardonable_? 3. How does _excusable_ differ from the above words? 4. What very different word is sometimes confounded with _venial_?

EXAMPLES.

Theft on the part of a starving man is one of the most ---- of offenses.

Under all the circ.u.mstances, the error was ----.

VERACITY (page 367).

QUESTIONS.

1. Do _truth_ and _verity_ apply to thought and speech or to persons? 2.

To what does _veracity_ apply? _truthfulness_? 3. Into what two cla.s.ses may the words in this group of synonyms be divided, and what words will be found in each cla.s.s?

EXAMPLES.

On a certain confidence in the ---- of mankind is founded so much of the knowledge on which we constantly depend, that, without it, the whole system of human things would go into confusion.

If all the world and love were young, And ---- in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

VIRTUE (page 370).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the prominent idea in _virtue_? 2. How does _goodness_ differ from _virtue_? 3. Of what relations are _honesty_ and _probity_ used? 4.

How is _honesty_ used in a sense higher than the commercial? 5. What, in the full sense, is _integrity_? 6. What is _honor_? 7. What is _purity_?

_duty_? 8. What do _rect.i.tude_ and _righteousness_ denote? 9. To what does _uprightness_ especially refer? 10. What is _virtuousness_?

EXAMPLES.

---- is the fruit of exertion; it supposes conquest of temptation.

In seeing that a thing is right, we see at the same time that it is our ---- to do it.

It is true that ---- is the best policy; but if this be the motive of honest dealing, there is no real ----.

Where is that chast.i.ty of ---- that felt a stain like a wound?