English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 146
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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.
EXECUTE (page 161).
QUESTIONS.
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_?
EXAMPLES.
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 ill.u.s.trate a moral duty without at the same time ----ing a precept of our religion.
EXERCISE (page 162).
QUESTIONS.
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_?
EXAMPLES.
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 ----.
EXPENSE (page 162).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is _cost_? _expense_? 2. How are these words now commonly differentiated? 3. What is the meaning of _outlay_? of _outgo_?
EXAMPLES.
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 ----.
EXPLICIT (page 162).
QUESTIONS.
1. To what are _explicit_ and _express_ alike opposed? 2. How do the two words differ from each other?
EXAMPLES.
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.
EXTEMPORANEOUS (page 163).
QUESTIONS.
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?
EXAMPLES.
In ---- prayer, what men most admire, G.o.d 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.
No more on prancing palfrey borne, He carolled light as lark at morn, And poured to lord and lady gay The ---- lay.
EXTERMINATE (page 163).
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