English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 117

EXAMPLES.

It is safer to ---- some people than to oblige them; for the better a man deserves, the worse they will speak of him.

Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches ---- the brain.

The petty desire to ---- is simply a perversion of the human love of power.

They rushed to meet the ---- foe.

AGENT (page 24).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _agent_ in the philosophical sense compare with _mover_ or _doer_? 2. What different sense has it in business usage?

EXAMPLES.

That morality may mean anything, man must be held to be a free ----.

The ---- declined to take the responsibility in the absence of the owner.

AGREE (page 25).

QUESTIONS.

1. How do _concur_ and _coincide_ differ in range of meaning? How with reference to expression in action? 2. How does _accede_ compare with _consent_? 3. Which is the most general word of this group?

EXAMPLES.

A woman's lot is made for her by the love she ----.

My poverty, but not my will, ----.

AGRICULTURE (page 25).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _agriculture_ include? How does it differ from _farming_?

2. What is _gardening_? _floriculture_? _horticulture_?

EXAMPLES.

Loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of ----.

A field becomes exhausted by constant ----.

AIM (page 26).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is an _aim_? How does it differ from _mark_? from _goal_? 2. How do _end_ and _object_ compare? 3. To what does _aspiration_ apply? How does it differ in general from _design_, _endeavor_, or _purpose_? 4.

How does _purpose_ compare with _intention_? 5. What is _design_?

EXAMPLES.

In deeds of daring rect.i.tude, in scorn For miserable ---- that end with self.

O yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final ---- of ill.

How quickly nature falls into revolt, When gold becomes her ----.

It is not ----, but ambition that is the mother of misery in man.

AIR (page 27).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _air_ in the sense here considered? 2. How does _air_ differ from _appearance_? 3. What is the difference between _expression_ and _look_? 4. What is the sense of _bearing_? _carriage_? 5. How does _mien_ differ from _air_? 6. What does _demeanor_ include?

EXAMPLES.

I never, with important ----, In conversation overbear.

Vice is a monster of so frightful ----, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen.

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty ----, repeats his words.