English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 152

EXAMPLES.

---- doth never prosper: what's the reason?

Why, if it prosper none dare call it ----.

Whoever has once become notorious by base ----, even if he speaks truth gains no belief.

The first and the worst of all ---- is to cheat oneself.

FRIENDLY (page 178).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _friendly_ signify as applied to persons, or as applied to acts? 2. How does the adjective _friendly_ compare in strength with the noun _friend_? 3. What is the special meaning of _accessible_? of _companionable_ and _sociable_? of _cordial_ and _genial_?

EXAMPLES.

He that hath friends must show himself ----.

A fellow feeling makes one wondrous ----.

FRIENDSHIP (page 179).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _friendship_? 2. In what one quality does it differ from _affection_, _attachment_, _devotion_, and _friendliness_? 3. What is the meaning of _comity_ and _amity_? 4. How does _friendship_ differ from _love_?

EXAMPLES.

Talk not of wasted ----, ---- never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment.

----, peculiar boon of heaven, The n.o.ble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

FRIGHTEN (page 180).

QUESTIONS.

1. By what is one _frightened_? by what _intimidated_? 2. What is it to _browbeat_ or _cow_? 3. What is it to _scare_ or _terrify_?

EXAMPLES.

The child was ---- by the stories the nurse told.

The loud, loud winds, that o'er the billows sweep-- Shake the firm nerve, ---- the bravest soul!

FRUGALITY (page 180).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _economy_? 2. What is _frugality_? 3. What is _parsimony_?

How does it compare with _frugality_? What is the motive of _parsimony_?

4. What is _miserliness_? 5. What is the special characteristic of _prudence_ and _providence_? of _thrift_? 6. What is the motive of _economy_?

EXAMPLES.

There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising, increase of ---- in laying out.

By close ---- the little home was at last paid for and there was a great thanksgiving time.

GARRULOUS (page 181).

QUESTIONS.

1. What does _garrulous_ signify? _chattering_? 2. How do _talkative_ and _loquacious_ differ from _garrulous_, and from each other? 3. What is the special application of _verbose_?

EXAMPLES.

To tame a shrew, and charm her ---- tongue.

Guard against a feeble fluency, a ---- prosiness, a facility of saying nothing.

GENDER (page 181).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _s.e.x_? 2. To what beings only does _s.e.x_ apply? 3. What is _gender_? To what does it apply? Do the distinctions of _gender_ correspond to the distinctions of _s.e.x_? Give examples of languages containing three _genders_, and of the cla.s.sification in languages containing but two.