English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 179

He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ---- s.h.i.+eld.

POETRY (page 277).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _poetry_? 2. Does _poetry_ involve _rime_? Does it require _meter_? 3. What is imperatively required beyond _verse_, _rime_, or _meter_ to const.i.tute _poetry_?

EXAMPLES.

---- is rhythmical, imaginative language, expressing the invention, taste, thought, pa.s.sion, and insight of a human soul.

He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty ----.

And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal ----.

POLITE (page 277).

QUESTIONS.

1. What are the characteristics of a _civil_ person? What more is found in one who is _polite_? 2. How does _courteous_ compare with _civil_? 3.

What does _courtly_ signify? _genteel_? _urbane_? 4. In what sense is _polished_ used? _complaisant_?

EXAMPLES.

She is not ---- for the sake of seeming ----, but ---- for the sake of being kind.

He was so generally ---- that n.o.body thanked him for it.

Her air, her manners, all who saw admired; ---- tho coy, and gentle tho retired.

POVERTY (page 279).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _poverty_ strictly denote? What does it signify in ordinary use? 2. What does _privation_ signify? How does it compare with _distress_? 3. What is _indigence_? _dest.i.tution_? _penury_? 4. What does _pauperism_ properly signify? How does it differ from _beggary_ and _mendicancy_?

POWER (page 279).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _power_? 2. Is _power_ limited to intelligent agents, or how widely applied? 3. How does _ability_ compare with _power_? 4. What is _capacity_, and how related to _power_ and to _ability_? 5. What is _competency_? _faculty_? _talent_? 6. What are _dexterity_ and _skill_?

How are they related to _talent_? 7. What is _efficacy_? _efficiency_?

EXAMPLES.

Bismarck was the one great figure of all Europe, with more ---- for good or evil than any other human being possessed at that time.

The soul, in its highest sense, is a vast ---- for G.o.d.

I reckon it is an oversight in a great body of metaphysicians that they have been afraid to ascribe our apprehensions of ---- to intuition. In consequence of this neglect, some never get the idea of ----, but merely of succession, within the bare limits of experience.

PRAISE (page 280).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _praise_? By how many is it given, and how is it expressed?

2. What is _applause_? by how many given? and how expressed? 3. What is _acclamation_? How does it differ from _applause_? 4. How does _approbation_ differ from _praise_? 5. What does _approval_ add to the meaning of _praise_? 6. How does _compliment_ compare with _praise_? 7.

What is _flattery_?

EXAMPLES.

The ---- of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.

---- no man e'er deserved who sought no more.

Gladly then he mixed Among those friendly powers, who him received With joy and ----s loud.

PRAY (page 281).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _pray_ in the religious sense? 2. In what lighter and more familiar sense may _pray_ be used? Is this latter use now common?

EXAMPLES.