English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 161

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EXAMPLES.

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!

Let the dead Past ---- its dead.

The s.h.i.+ps of war, Congress and c.u.mberland, were ---- by the Merrimac.

When food can not be swallowed, life may be prolonged by ---- the body in nutritive fluids.

IMMINENT (page 212).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what language is _imminent_ derived and with what primary sense?

_impending_? 2. How do _imminent_ and _impending_ differ in present use?

3. How does _threatening_ differ from the two words above given?

EXAMPLES.

And nodding Ilium waits the ---- fall.

And these she does apply for warnings, portents, And evils ----.

IMPEDIMENT (page 213).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _impediment_ primarily signify? _obstacle_? _obstruction_?

2. How does _obstacle_ differ from _obstruction_? 3. What is a _hindrance_? 4. Is an _impediment_ what one finds or what he carries? Is it momentary or constant? What did the Latin _impedimenta_ signify? 5.

What is an _enc.u.mbrance_? How does it differ from an _obstacle_ or _obstruction_? 6. Is a _difficulty_ within one or without?

EXAMPLES.

Something between a ---- and a help.

Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we march'd without ----.

Demosthenes became the foremost orator of the world in spite of an ---- in his speech.

----s overcome are the stepping-stones by which great men rise.

IMPUDENCE (page 213).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _impertinence_ primarily denote? What is its common acceptation? 2. What is _impudence_? _insolence_? 3. What is _officiousness_? 4. What does _rudeness_ suggest?

EXAMPLES.

With matchless ---- they style a wife The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life.

It is better not to turn friends.h.i.+p into a system of lawful and unpunishable ----.

A certain cla.s.s of ill-natured people mistake ---- for frankness.

INCONGRUOUS (page 214).

QUESTIONS.

1. When are things said to be _incongruous_? 2. To what is _discordant_ applied? _inharmonious_? 3. What does _incompatible_ signify? When are things said to be _incompatible_? 4. To what does _inconsistent_ apply?

5. What ill.u.s.trations of the uses of these words are given in the text?

6. What is the meaning of _incommensurable_?

EXAMPLES.

No solitude is so solitary as that of ---- companions.h.i.+p.

I hear a strain ---- as a merry dirge, or sacramental baccha.n.a.l might be.

INDUCTION (page 215).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _deduction_? _induction_? 2. What is the proof of an _induction_? 3. What process is ordinarily followed in what is known as scientific _induction_? 4. How do _deduction_ and _induction_ compare as to the certainty of the conclusion? 5. How does an _induction_ compare with an _inference_?

EXAMPLES.

The longer one studies a vast subject the more cautious in ---- he becomes.

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