English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 184

EXAMPLES.

A ----, shy man was this pastor--a sort of living mummy, dried up and bleached by Icelandic snows.

In setting a hen, says Grose, the good women hold it an indispensable rule to put an ---- number of eggs.

Only a man of undoubted genius can afford to be ----.

The ---- architecture of these medieval towns has a strange fascination.

QUICKEN (page 297).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _accelerate_? to _despatch_? 2. What does the verb _speed_ signify? _hasten_? _hurry_? What does _hurry_ suggest in addition to the meaning of _hasten_?

EXAMPLES.

The motion of a falling body is continually ----ed.

The muster-place is Lanrick mead!

---- forth the signal! Norman, ----!

The pulsations of the heart are ----ed by exertion.

QUOTE (page 298).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _cite_ differ from _quote_? 2. What is it to _paraphrase_?

to _plagiarize_?

EXAMPLES.

A great man ---- bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

The Devil can ---- Scripture for his purpose.

To appropriate others' thoughts or words mechanically and without credit is to ----.

RACY (page 299).

QUESTIONS.

1. To what does _racy_ in the first instance refer? _pungent_? 2. How does _piquant_ differ from _pungent_? 3. How are these words and the word _spicy_ used in reference to literary products?

EXAMPLES.

Pure mother English, ---- and fresh with idiomatic graces.

The atmosphere was strangely impregnated with the ---- odor of burning peat.

The spruce, the cedar, and the juniper, with their balsamic breath, filled the air with a ---- fragrance.

RADICAL (page 299).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the primary meaning of _radical_? 2. What contrasted senses are derived from this primary meaning?

EXAMPLES.

Timidity is a ---- defect in a reformer.

Social and political leaders look to vested interests, and hence are inclined to regard all ---- measures as ----.

RARE (page 300).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the meaning of _unique_? Can any one of a number of things of the same kind be _unique_? 2. What is the primary meaning of _rare_?

What added sense is often blended with this primary meaning? 3. Is _extraordinary_ favorable or unfavorable in meaning?

EXAMPLES.

Nothing is so ---- as time.

That which gives to the Jews their ---- position among the nations is what we are accustomed to regard as their sacred history.