English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 192

STATE, _v._ (page 341).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what is _state_ derived? What does it mean? 2. What is the significance of _a.s.sert_? What element is prominent in this word? 3.

What is the relative force of _affirm_ and _a.s.sert_? _a.s.severate_?

_aver_? _a.s.sure_? 4. What does _affirm_ signify in legal use, and how does it differ from _swear_? 5. What is it to _certify_? 6. What does _vindicate_ signify?

EXAMPLES.

The first condition of intelligent debate is that the question be clearly ----ed.

We ---- that the sciences dispose themselves round two great axes of thought, parallel and not unrelated, yet distinct--the natural sciences held together by the one, the moral by the other.

It is impossible for the mind to ---- anything of that of which it knows nothing.

STORM (page 343).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the essential meaning of _storm_? 2. What is a _tempest_?

EXAMPLES.

The ---- is hard at hand will sweep away Thrones, churches, ranks, traditions, customs, marriage.

Were any considerable ma.s.s of air to be suddenly transferred from beyond the tropics to the equator, the difference of the rotatory velocity proper to the two situations would be so great as to produce not merely a wind, but a ---- of the most destructive violence.

STORY (page 343).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _story_? Is it true or false? 2. What is an _anecdote_? a _narrative_ or _narration_?

EXAMPLES.

There are ----, common to the different branches of the Aryan stock.... They are ancient Aryan ----, ... older than the Odyssey, older than the dispersion of the Aryan race.

----s are relations of detached, interesting particulars.

Fairy ----s have for children an inexhaustible charm.

SUBJECTIVE (page 345).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the meaning of _subjective_? of _objective_? 2. How are these words ill.u.s.trated in the case of a mountain? 3. What matters are purely _subjective_? 4. What matters are purely _objective_? 5. What is meant by saying that an author has a _subjective_ or an _objective_ style?

EXAMPLES.

Subject therefore, denotes the mind itself; and ----, that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the thinking subject. Object is a term for that about which the knowing subject is conversant, ... while ---- means that which belongs to, or proceeds from, the object known, and not from the subject knowing; and thus denotes what is real, in opposition to what is ideal,--what exists in nature, in contrast to what exists merely in the thought of the individual.

SUGGESTION (page 347).

QUESTIONS.

1. In what way does a _suggestion_ bring a matter before the mind? 2.

What is an _intimation_? a _hint_? 3. What are the special characteristics of _insinuation_ and _innuendo_?

EXAMPLES.

Behold in the bloom of apples, And the violets in the sward, A ---- of the old, lost beauty Of the garden of the Lord!

Time is truly the comforter, at once lessening the tendency to ---- of images of sorrow, and softening that very sorrow when the images arise.

An ---- is cowardly because it can seldom be directly answered, and the one who makes it can always retreat behind an a.s.sumed misconstruction of his words; but the ---- is the stab in the back, sneaking as it is malicious.

SUPERNATURAL (page 347).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the original meaning of _supernatural_? of _preternatural_?

2. What is commonly implied in the use of _preternatural_? 3. In what sense do some hold a miracle to be _supernatural_? What descriptive term would others prefer? 4. What is the meaning of _superhuman_? In what secondary sense is it often used?

EXAMPLES.