English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 111

ABBREVIATION (page 4).

QUESTIONS.

1. Is an _abbreviation_ always a _contraction_? 2. Is a _contraction_ always an _abbreviation_? Give instances. 3. Can we have an _abbreviation_ of a book, paragraph, or sentence? What can be _abbreviated_? and what _abridged_?

EXAMPLES.

The treatise was already so brief that it did not admit of ----.

The ---- Dr. is used both for Doctor and Debtor.

F. R. S. is an ---- of the t.i.tle "Fellow of the Royal Society."

ABET (page 4).

QUESTIONS.

1. _Abet_, _incite_, _instigate_: which of these words are used in a good and which in a bad sense? 2. How does _abet_ differ from _incite_ and _instigate_ as to the time of the action? 3. Which of the three words apply to persons and which to actions? Give instances of the use of _abet_; _instigate_; _incite_.

EXAMPLES.

To further his own schemes, he ---- the viceroy to rebel against the king.

To ---- a crime may be worse than to originate it, as arguing less excitement and more calculation and cowardice.

The prosecution was evidently malicious, ---- by envy and revenge.

And you that do ---- him in this kind Cherish rebellion, and are rebels all.

ABHOR (page 5).

QUESTIONS.

1. Which is the stronger word, _abhor_ or _despise_? 2. What does _abhor_ denote? 3. How does Archbishop Trench ill.u.s.trate the difference between _abhor_ and _shun_? 4. What does _detest_ express? 5. What does _loathe_ imply? Is it physical or moral in its application? 6. Give ill.u.s.trations of the appropriate uses of the above words.

EXAMPLES.

He had sunk to such degradation as to be utterly ---- by all good men.

Such weakness can only be ----.

Talebearers and backbiters are everywhere ----.

---- that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

ABIDE (page 5).

QUESTIONS.

1. What limit of time is expressed by _abide_? by _lodge_? by _live_, _dwell_, _reside_? 2. What is the meaning of _sojourn_? 3. Should we say one is _stopping_ or _staying_ at a hotel? and why? 4. Give examples of the extended, and of the limited use of _abide_.

EXAMPLES.

One generation pa.s.seth away and another generation cometh, but the earth ---- forever.

And there were in the same country shepherds ---- in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

So great was the crowd of visitors that many were compelled to ---- in the neighboring villages.

He is ---- at the Albemarle.

He has ---- for forty years in the same house.

By faith he ---- in the land of promise, as in a strange country.

ABOLISH (page 6).

QUESTIONS.

1. Is _abolish_ used of persons or material objects? 2. Of what is it used? Give examples. 3. What does _annihilate_ signify? Is it stronger or weaker than _abolish_? 4. What terms do we use for doing away with _laws_, and how do those terms differ among themselves? 5. What are the differences between _overthrow_, _suppress_, and _subvert_? especially between the last two of those words? 6. How does _prohibit_ differ from _abolish_? 7. What word do we especially use of putting an end to a nuisance? 8. What other words of this cla.s.s are especially referred to?

9. Give some antonyms of _abolish_.

EXAMPLES.

The one great endeavor of Buddhism is to ---- sorrow.

Modern science seems to show conclusively that matter is never ----.