English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 149

1. How are _female_ and _feminine_ discriminated? 2. What is the difference between a _female_ voice and a _feminine_ voice? 3. How are _womanly_ and _womanish_ discriminated in use?

EXAMPLES.

Notice, too, how precious are these ---- qualities in the sick room.

The demand for closet-room is no mere ---- fancy, but the good sense of the s.e.x.

FETTER (page 169).

QUESTIONS.

1. What are _fetters_ in the primary sense? 2. What are _manacles_ and _handcuffs_ designed to fasten or hold? _gyves_? 3. What are _shackles_ and what are they intended to fasten or hold? 4. Of what material are all these restraining devices commonly composed? By what general name are they popularly known? 5. What are _bonds_ and of what material composed? 6. Which of these words are used in the metaphorical sense?

EXAMPLES.

But first set my poor heart free, Bound in those icy ---- by thee.

Slaves can not breathe in England . . .

They touch our country, and their ---- fall.

FEUD (page 170).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _feud_? Of what is it used? 2. Is a _quarrel_ in word or act? _contention_? _strife_? _contest_? 3. How does _quarrel_ compare in importance with the other words cited? 4. What does an _affray_ always involve? To what may a _brawl_ or _broil_ be confined? 5. How do these words compare in dignity with _contention_, _contest_, _controversy_, and _dissension_?

EXAMPLES.

Could we forbear ---- and practise love We should agree as angels do above.

"Between my house and yours," he answered, "There is a ---- of five hundred years."

Beware of entrance to a ----.

FICTION (page 170).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _fiction_ in the most common modern meaning of the word? 2.

How does a _fiction_ differ from a _novel_? from a _fable_? from a _myth_? 3. How does a _myth_ differ from a _legend_? 4. How do _falsehood_ and _fabrication_ differ from the words above mentioned? 5.

Is _fabrication_ or _falsehood_ the more odious term? Which term is really the stronger? 6. What is a _story_? Is it good or bad, true or false? With what words of the group does it agree?

EXAMPLES.

O scenes surpa.s.sing ----, and yet true, Scenes of accomplished bliss.

A ---- strange is told of thee.

I believe the whole account from beginning to end to be a pure ----.

A thing sustained by such substantial evidence could not be a mere ---- of the imagination.

FIERCE (page 171).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _fierce_ signify? 2. To what does _ferocious_ refer? How do the two words differ? 3. What does _savage_ signify?

EXAMPLES.

---- was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land.

Contentions ----, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

The ---- savages ma.s.sacred the survivors to the last man.

FINANCIAL (page 172).

QUESTIONS.

1. To what does _monetary_ directly refer? 2. How does _pecuniary_ agree with and differ from _monetary_? 3. To what does _financial_ especially apply? 4. In what connection is _fiscal_ most commonly used?

EXAMPLES.

The ---- year closes with the society out of debt.

He was rejoiced to receive the ---- aid at a time when it was most needed.