English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 119

ALLEGE (page 31).

QUESTIONS.

1. Which is the primary and which the secondary word, _allege_ or _adduce_? Why? 2. How much of certainty is implied in _allege_? 3. How much does one admit when he speaks of an _alleged_ fact, doc.u.ment, signature, or the like?

EXAMPLES.

In many ---- cases of haunted houses, the spirits have not ventured to face an armed man who has pa.s.sed the night there.

I can not ---- one thing and mean another. If I can't pray I will not make believe!

ALLEGORY (page 33).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _allegory_ compare with _simile_? _Simile_ with _metaphor_?

2. What are the distinctions between _allegory_, _fable_, and _parable_?

3. Under what general term are all these included? 4. To what is _fiction_ now most commonly applied?

EXAMPLES.

In argument ---- are like songs in love: They much describe; they nothing prove.

And He spake many things unto them in ----, saying, Behold a sower went forth to sow.

ALLEVIATE (page 33).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _alleviate_ differ from _relieve_? from _remove_? 2. Is _alleviate_ used of persons? 3. What are the special significations of _abate_? _a.s.suage_? _mitigate_? _moderate_? 4. How does _alleviate_ compare with _allay_? (Compare synonyms for ALLAY.)

EXAMPLES.

To pity distress is but human; to ---- it is G.o.dlike.

But, O! what mighty magician can ---- A woman's envy?

ALLIANCE (page 34).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is an _alliance_? how does it differ from _partnership_? from _coalition_? from _league_? 2. How does a _confederacy_ or _federation_ differ from a _union_?

EXAMPLES.

The two nations formed an offensive and defensive ---- against the common enemy.

Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the battle-flags were furled, In the Parliament of man, the ---- of the world.

Business ---- are the warrant for the existence of trade ----.

ALLOT (page 34).

QUESTIONS.

1. Does _allot_ refer to time, place, or person? 2. To what does _appoint_ refer? _a.s.sign_? 3. How does _destine_ differ from _appoint_?

4. How does _award_ differ from _allot_, _appoint_, and _a.s.sign_?

EXAMPLES.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind ----.

He ----eth the moon for seasons; the sun knoweth his going down.

The king is but as the hind ...

Who may not wander from the ---- field Before his work be done.

ALLOW (page 35).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the difference between _allow_ and _permit_? between a _permit_ and _permission_? 2. What instances can you give of the use of these words, also of _tolerate_ and _submit_? 3. What does _yield_ imply?

EXAMPLES.

Frederick ---- the Austrians to cross the mountains that he might attack them on a field of his own choosing.