English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 158

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _history_? How does it relate events? To what cla.s.s of events does it apply? 2. How does _history_ differ from _annals_ or _chronicles_?

EXAMPLES.

Happy the people whose ---- are dulled.

---- is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.

---- is philosophy teaching by example.

HOLY (page 200).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the meaning of _sacred_? 2. How does it compare with _holy_?

3. Which term do we apply directly to G.o.d? 4. In what sense is _divine_ loosely used? What is its more appropriate sense?

EXAMPLES.

The ---- time is quiet as a nun breathless with adoration.

A ---- burden is this life ye bear.

All sects and churches of Christendom hold to some form of the doctrine of the ---- inspiration of the Christian Scriptures.

HOME (page 201).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the general sense of _abode_, _dwelling_, and _habitation_?

What difference is there in the use of these words? 2. From what language is _home_ derived? What is its distinctive meaning?

EXAMPLES.

An ---- giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

The attempt to abolish the ideal woman and keep the ideal ---- is a predestinated failure.

A house without love may be a castle or a palace, but it is not a ----.

Love is the life of a true ----.

HONEST (page 202).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the meaning of _honest_ in ordinary use? 2. What is the meaning of _honorable_? 3. How will the merely _honest_ and the truly _honorable_ man differ in action? 4. What is _honest_ in the highest and fullest sense? How, in this sense, does it differ from _honorable_?

EXAMPLES.

---- labor bears a lovely face.

An ---- man's the n.o.blest work of G.o.d.

No form of pure, undisguised murder will be any longer allowed to confound itself with the necessities of ---- warfare.

HORIZONTAL (page 202).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _horizontal_ signify? How does it compare with _level_? 2.

From what language is _flat_ derived? 3. What is its original meaning?

its most common present sense? In what derived sense is it often used?

4. What are the senses of _plain_ and _plane_?

EXAMPLES.

Sun and moon were in the ---- sea sunk.

Ample s.p.a.ces o'er the smooth and ---- pavement.

The prominent lines in Greek architecture were ----, and not vertical.

HUNT (page 203).

QUESTIONS.