English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 165

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _kill_? 2. To what are _a.s.sa.s.sinate_, _execute_, and _murder_ restricted? 3. What is the specific meaning of _murder_?

_execute_? _a.s.sa.s.sinate_? To what cla.s.s of persons is the latter word ordinarily applied? 4. What is it to _slay_? 5. To what is _ma.s.sacre_ limited? With what special meaning is it used? 6. To what do _butcher_ and _slaughter_ primarily apply? What is the sense of each when so used?

7. What is it to _despatch_?

EXAMPLES.

To look into her eyes was to ---- doubt.

Two presidents of the United States have been ----.

Hamilton was ---- in a duel by Aaron Burr.

The place was carried by storm, and the inhabitants ---- without distinction of age or s.e.x.

KIN (page 227).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _kind_ compare with _kin_? 2. What do _kin_ and _kindred_ denote? 3. What is _affinity_? How does it differ from _consanguinity_?

EXAMPLES.

A little more than ----, and less than ----.

He held his seat,--a friend to the human ----.

The patient bride, a little sad, Leaving of home and ----.

KNOWLEDGE (page 227).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _knowledge_? How does it differ from _information_? 2. What is _perception_? _apprehension_? _cognizance_? 3. What is _intuition_?

4. What is _experience_, and how does it differ from _intuition_? 5.

What is _learning_? _erudition_?

EXAMPLES.

---- comes, but wisdom lingers.

The child is continually seeking ----; hence his endless questions.

'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical ----, And coming events cast their shadows before.

----s lie at the very foundation of all reasoning.

LANGUAGE (page 228).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the derivation of _language_? What was its original signification? How wide is its present meaning? 2. As regards the use of words, what does _language_ denote in the general and in the restricted sense? 3. What does _speech_ always involve? 4. Can we speak of the _speech_ of animals? of their _language_? 5. What is a _dialect_? a _barbarism_? an _idiom_? 6. What is a _patois_? How does it differ from a _dialect_? 7. What is a _vernacular_?

EXAMPLES.

We must be free or die, who speak the ---- That Shakespeare spake: the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

---- is great; but silence is greater.

An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light, And with no ---- but a cry.

Thought leapt out to wed with Thought, Ere Thought could wed itself with ----.

A Babylonish ---- Which learned pedants much affect.

O! good, my lord, no Latin; I'm not such a truant since my coming As not to know the ---- I have lived in.

LARGE (page 229).

QUESTIONS.

1. To how many dimensions does _large_ apply? How does it differ from _long_? 2. How does _large_ compare with _great_? with _big_?

EXAMPLES.

Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those ---- in war, are ---- in love.

Everything is twice as ---- measured on a three-year-old's three-foot scale as on a thirty-year-old's six-foot scale.

And his ---- manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, Pipes and whistles in its sound.