Sentences: "Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in ____ and ____." "His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the ____ and ____ of kings." ____ changed to ____ when we perceived the corpse. Washington felt some ____ as to the loyalty of Charles Lee, but was amazed to find his force retreating in ____, indeed almost in a[n] ____.
Sentences: She possessed every ____ charm. He gave a[n] ____ start of curiosity. The pistil is considered the ____ organ of a flower. It was once not thought ____ for a woman to ride astride a horse. He inherited the throne through the ____ line. Patience is one of the greatest of ____ virtues. The hired girl in her finery minced along with a[n] ____ step. Some people consider it ____ to wear a wrist watch. Her ____ heart was touched at the sight. It is ____ to jump at the sight of a mouse.
Sentences: "A darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of ____ and flight." The ____ upon Fort Sumter was the direct cause of the Civil War. The ____ between our forces and theirs was brief and trivial; it was only a cavalry ____. There is an excellent account of a knightly ____ inIvanhoe. We repelled their general ____; then ourselves advanced; the ____ of our lines with theirs soon resulted in an inextricable ____. A chance ____ of small forces at Gettysburg brought on a terrible ____. There had long been ____ between the two factions within the party. Angered by what had begun as a playful ____, one of the men challenged the other to ____.
Sentences: It is the lot of every one to endure many sorrows in this ____ life. They saw for a short while a[n] ____ comet. The ____ glories of dawn had merged into the sordid realities of daytime. The remark made but a[n] ____ impression upon him. The ____ moments sped away. "Art is long, and time is ____." Joy is ____. Much of the popular literature of the day is ____ in character.
Sentences: It was a[n] ____ excuse. It was a pleasure to meet a person so simple and ____. He was ____ to say that he did not like the arrangement. "Who, mindful of the unhonored dead, Dost in these lines their ____ tale relate." "The Moor is of a free and ____ nature." He gave them his ____ opinion.
Sentences: The schemers were themselves ____. He was ____ by the many contradictory clues. Circumstances ____ all his plans to get rich. The parents ____ the attempt of the couple to elope. The guard ____ the prisoner's attempt to escape. He was ____ at every turn. They put forth a statement to ____ the influence of their opponents' propaganda. By slipping away during the night, Washington ____ the enemy. The politician by his shrewdness ____ the attempt to discredit him.
Sentences: "The milkmaid singeth ____." "And all went ____ as a marriage bell." "How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring ____ tidings of good things." A ____ Lothario. "So buxom, ____, and debonair." As ____ as a fawn. He kept smiling, for he was in ____ mood. "You are sad Because you are not ____; and 'twere as easy For you to laugh and leap, and say you are ____, Because you are not sad." He longed for the ____ life of a ____ English squire.
Sentences: ____ makes perfect. The immigrants kept up many of the ____ of their native land. "God fulfils himself in many ways, Lest one good ____ should corrupt the world." It was his ____ to walk among the ruins. An old ____ permits a man to kiss a girl who is standing under mistletoe. ____ establishes many peculiar idioms in a language. He acquired the ____ of smoking. "It is a ____ more honor'd in the breach than the observance." De Quincey was a victim of the opium ____. "Age cannot wither her, nor ____ stale Her infinite variety." "'Tis not his ____ to be the hindmost man."
Sentences: The merchant ____ about his financial losses. "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and ____ his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more." The children never lost an opportunity to ____ the teacher. The other pupils ____ him because he was the teacher's favorite. The newcomer was ____ by their frequent questions. Don't ____ the child by holding the grapes beyond its reach. "He was met even now As mad as the ____ sea." Ah, but I am ____ by doubts and fears. "The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, ____ her ancient, solitary reign." The child ____ because the rain kept it indoors. When the joke was discovered, they almost ____ the life out of him. I was ____ at their discovering my predicament. "You may as well forbid the mountain pines To wag their high tops, and to make no noise When they are ____ with the gusts of heaven."
Sentences: Baggage ____ the progress of an army. It is the purpose of modern medicine to ____ disease. The accumulations of dust and grease ____ the machine. "My tears must stop, for every drop ____ needle and thread." By acknowledging his fault he hoped to ____ criticism. Though before she had been unable to ____ her tears, she could now scarcely ____ a yawn. A fallen tree ____ his further progress. The horse was ____ with a heavy burden, and the unsure footing of the trail further ____ the ascent. His jealous colleagues ____ his plans in every way they could.
Sentences: The explorers, having eaten all the provisions they had carried with them, hurried back to their ____. The battering-ram at last made a[n] ____ in the walls. The ____ in the log had been caused by the intense heat. He tore off the check along the line of the ____. The ____ in the earth gradually deepened and narrowed into a[n] ____. Pyramus and Thisbe made love to each other through a[n] ____ in a wall. "Once more unto the ____, dear friends, once more." The ____ in the mountain ranges of Virginia influenced strategy during the Civil War. Several ____ in the toe of one of his shoes apprised me that he had a sore foot. The supposed ____ in the rock turned out to be a[n] ____ that led into a dark but spacious ____. He suffered a[n] ____ of one of his tires near the place where the laborers were making the ____. It was a gun of very large ____. The ____ in the percolator was made by a flatiron aimed at Mr. Wiggins' head.
Sentences: "He also that is ____ in his work is brother to him that is a great waster." "The ____ singer of an empty day." Mighty, ____ forces lie locked up in nature, waiting for man to release them. He was a[n] ____, good-for-nothing fellow whose whole business in life was to keep out of work. "For Satan finds some mischief still For ____ hands to do." He was too ____ to do his work well. "The ____ yawning drone." His steps were so ____ one would almost think he was not moving. "As ____ as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean." "I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an ____ brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy."
Sentences: Without public schools most children would be ____; without missionaries many barbarous tribes would remain ____. Andrew Jackson was ____ that peace had been declared when he fought the battle of New Orleans. Even the wisest men are ____ upon some subjects. "Lo, the poor Indian, whose ____ mind Sees God in clouds or hears Him in the wind!" The mountain whites, though often totally ____, are nevertheless a shrewd folk. "Their name, their years, spelt by th' ____ muse, The place of fame and elegy supply." The percentage of ____ persons is constantly decreasing in America.
Sentences: He ____ the bucket of water over. The vessel ____ to the stern and began to sink. The ship ____ to larboard. He ____ the top of the picture away from the wall. The sprinter ____ forward and touched the tips of his fingers against the ground. The gable ____ sharply. The hill ____ gently. The cowboy had ____ his hat fetchingly.
Sentences: The people protested the expenditure of money for a Congressional ____ to investigate the Philippine Islands. Each Sunday there is a[n] ____ at half fare between the two cities. He conducted a party on a summer ____ through Europe. Last summer I took a[n] ____ to the Yellowstone National Park. It was a long ____ from Philadelphia to Boston by stage coach. They hurriedly arranged for a[n] ____ to the woods. Magellan was the first man to make a[n] ____ around the globe. The scientific body organized a[n] ____ to explore the polar regions. Thousands of Mohammedans make an annual ____ to Mecca.
Sentences: The weather was ____. She was as ____ as a queen. "Thou dost wear The Godhead's most ____ grace." Cowper was too ____ to tread upon a worm needlessly. A judge in sentencing a convicted man may be as ____ as circumstances and the law allow. ____ neutrality. "Blessed are the ____." "She was so ____ and so pitous She wolde wepe if that she sawe a mous Caught in a trappe." "____ hearts are more than coronets."
Sentences: Between the two young people had grown a[n] ____ which now ripened into ____. "The course of true ____ never did run smooth." The mad ____ of Mark Antony for Cleopatra was the cause of his downfall. She had only a[n] ____ for him, but he an unqualified ____ for her. "Man's ____ is of his life a thing apart; 'Tis woman's whole existence." He shows a marked ____ for the companionship of women. My ____ for the tart was enhanced by my ____ for the girl who baked it. That boy shows a[n] ____ for horses, and a positive ____ for dogs.
Sentences: He had reached the ____ of endurance. In writing, leave a wide ____ on the left side of the page. "Borrowing dulls the ____ of husbandry." "The extravagant and erring spirit hies To his ____." Within the ____ of reason. He stood on the ____ of ruin. The rock at the ____ of the cañon is called the ____ rock. I was on the ____ of doing a very indiscreet thing. "The undiscover'd country from whose ____ No traveler returns." Fill your glasses to the ____.
Sentences: "However old a ____ union, it still garners some sweetness." A court of ____ relations. "Contented toil, and hospitable care, And kind ____ tenderness are there." "To the ____ bower I led her, blushing like the morn." She finally decided that he had no ____ intentions. "And hears the unexpressive ____ song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love."
Sentences: He gave his life to literary ____. My brother found ____ as a tutor in a rich family. Colleges are trying to direct their students into the ____ they are best fitted for. Andrew Johnson was a tailor by ____. Medicine is a very ancient ____. The shoemaker was very skilled at his ____. After losing his hand he could no longer engage in his ____ as telegrapher. The grocer carries on only a wholesale ____. He considered his ____ to the ministry a sacred duty. "Sir, 'tis my ____ to be plain." Do you find collecting coins a pleasant ____?
Sentences: We ____ our hunger when we reached the inn. In olden times men tried to ____ the offended gods by offering human sacrifices. They ____ the angry man by promising to hear his grievances immediately. The premier thought he could ____ this particular faction by offering its leader a seat in the cabinet. "Chiron ____ his cruel mind With art, and taught his warlike hands to wind The silver strings of his melodious lyre." A friendly word will usually ____ one's enemies.
Sentences: One ____ in his success was his courage. She was studying the ____ of the pie; he the chances of getting another ____. Is it ____ and ____ alike? "I live not in myself, but I become ____ of that around me." "Act well your ____; there all the honor lies." He owned a[n] ____ of land near the city limits; a speculator bought a[n] ____ of this and divided it into city lots. "I am a[n] ____ of all that I have met." The purchaser, having only a[n] ____ of this sum in ready money, offered to pay in ____.
Sentences: Give the manager his ____, the workmen their ____. "The laborer is worthy of his ____." He received his weekly ____ from the parsimonious old man. The ____ for enrolment is ten dollars. "This is ____ and ____, not revenge."
Sentences: He was ____ enough, but not definitely ____. "So ____ that he ne'er ____." Though he had never lived in a city, much less in the circle of royalty, his manners were ____, even ____. Your desire to please is shown in your ____ greeting. "Damn with faint praise, assent with ____ leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer."
Sentences: It was only a little ____ between lovers. The ____ between the partners was over the right of the senior to make contracts for the firm; it grew into an angry ____. It was a long-drawn political ____. At the meeting of our committee the chairman and one of the members had a sharp ____ over a point of order. A[n] ____ in some minor matters led to a[n] ____ in their friendship. "Thrice is he armed that hath his ____ just." Those chattering, choleric fellows are always engaged in ____; last night they on meeting had a[n] ____ which brought on a long-drawn ____, and when their friends joined in, there was a noisy ____. I have seen all sorts of ____, from a trivial childish ____ to a grim ____ of mountaineers.
Sentences: Let the Lord be ____. "As some tall cliff that ____ its awful form." Because of this success his reputation was ____. The horse ____ when the machine began to ____ the huge block of stone by means of a crane. "I will ____ up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help." The load was too heavy for him to carry; in fact he just managed to ____ it into the wagon.
Sentences: The defense ____ objection to the first of these points. The refugee was willing to ____ his right to resist extradition. The teacher ____ her position at the end of the year. The king ____ when the people rose in revolt. He ____ his command of the army. Do you ____ your claim in this mine? The bankrupt ____ his property to the receiver to help pay his debts.
Sentences: He ____ the statement. Thereupon Henry Esmond ____ his allegiance to the House of Stuart. It is a serious matter for a government to ____ its debts. Did the heretic ____? Do you ____ the devil and all his works? "The wounded gladiator ____ all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wounds resumes his arms." He had broken his solemn oath; he was ____.
Sentences: "He ____ their wanderings but relieved their pain." "Many a time and oft In the Rialto you have ____ me About my moneys and my usances." They ____ the man who had taken the savings of the poor, and ____ him against such schemes thereafter. The general ____ his subordinate.
Sentences: Every boy has his period of wanting to be a ____.Treasure Islandis one of the best ____ stories ever written. The ____ lurks in dark passageways and steals upon his victim. The fierce followers of Achilles were called ____. The men sent out by the army as ____ seemed to the people of the countryside more like ____. The fearless ____ had soon gathered about him a band of ____. Robin Hood was no ____ of poor folk. The outcast became a ____ among the mountaineers of northern Italy. Every, boy likes to read of the bold ____ who sailed the Spanish Main. Union plans were often upset by daring Confederate ____, such as Stuart, Morgan, and Forrest.
Sentences: Swift horsemen ____ the country in search of the fugitive. Wherever they came, the inhabitants ____ for shelter. "The dish ____ away with the spoon." For his horse to ____ made difficult riding, to ____ made comfortable riding, to ____ made exhilarating riding. "He may ____ that readeth it." The old sailing-boat ____ before the wind. "Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May ____ to my revenge." The rats ____ across the floor. "He who fights and ____ away May live to fight another day."
Sentences: It was something I merely ____ in passing; I would not ____ to it. I could not ____ in court, and therefore had to ____ before a notary. The scientist ____ that a seismograph will infallibly record earthquakes. He solemnly ____ that he would not ____ exemption from the draft.
Sentences: The gorgeous parade ____ the boy. "____, ____, little star." He was witty that night; he fairly ____. At this compliment the old lady ____. "Now fades the ____ landscape on the sight." A rocket ____ in the darkness. She ____ her elderly wooer a look of defiance; then her eyes softened and ____ with amusement. "All that ____ is not gold." "How far that little candle throws his beams! So ____ a good deed in a naughty world." The old man ____ into sudden anger.
Sentences: A newspaper must be careful not to ____ any one. Too many supposedly religious people ____ their fellow believers. I do not ____ your motives. He ____ the character of everybody who chances to possess one.
Sentences: The ____ of the flowers in the vase mingled with the ____ of boiling cabbage in the kitchen. The ____ of spring is on the meadows. So keen was the hound's sense of ____ that he quickly picked up the ____ again. Any smoker likes the ____ of a good cigar. The ____ of the handkerchief was delicate. Though it was a disagreeable ____, I should hardly call it a[n] ____. The ____ of spices told him that his mother was baking his favorite cake, and he also detected the ____ of coffee. The ____ of the ocean was in the air. He sniffed the ____ of frying bacon.
Sentences: "They learn in suffering what they teach in ____." The mother crooned a[n] ____ to her babe. The Highland girl sang a moving old ____. The worshipers sang a[n] ____ of praise. Charles Wesley wrote many ____. As I approached the cathedral, I could hear the ____ of larks outside and the ____ of the choir within. "Our sweetest ____ are those that tell of saddest thought." "A[n] ____ for her the doubly dead in that she died so young."
Sentences: "His virtues Will ____ like angels trumpet-tongu'd against The deep damnation of his taking-off." "Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, … Come I to ____ in Caesar's funeral." "Ay me! what act, That ____ so loud and ____ in the index?" "Hadst thou thy wits and didst ____ revenge, It could not move thus." "Thou canst not ____ of that thou dost not feel." "Nay, if thou'lt mouth, I'll ____ as well as thou." While the politician ____ in the senate chamber upon theoretical ills, the agitator outside ____ the mob about actual ones. "For murder, though it have no tongue, will ____ With most miraculous organ."
Sentences: Large sums were ____ in rebuilding the devastated regions of France. ____ your money, but do not ____ it. One should not ____ more than one earns. The king ____ great sums upon his favorites. The political boss ____ the money among his henchmen. "The younger son … ____ his substance with riotous living."
Sentences: A ____ in the crystal. The ____ of Cain. A life free from ____. "Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained ____ As will not leave their tinct." From the standpoint of theatrical effectiveness _A ____ in the 'Scutcheon_ is one of the best of Browning's plays. An eruption of the skin made a yellow ____ on his right hand. Dragging my sleeve across the fresh ink had made a ____ upon the page. The ____ of foam by the roadside proved that his horse had been going fast. The ____ at the end of his fingers told me he was a cigarette-smoker. On the left foreleg of the horse was a slight ____.
Sentences: The Israelites ____ in Egypt. He ____ to chat with us, but could not ____ overnight. I ____ in a wretched tavern. "I can ____, I can ____ but a night." "I did love the Moor to ____ with him." "He that shall come will come, and will not ____." "I will ____ in the house of the Lord forever." "If ye ____ in me, and my words ____ in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you." "I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to ____ in the tents of wickedness." The guests ____ in the cheerful drawing-room.
Sentences: I am afraid that our son ____ the purse from the gentleman. No one knows how long the cashier has been ____ the funds of the bank. To take our money on such unsound security is to ____ us. He slyly ____ a handkerchief or two. This paragraph is clearly ____. "Thou shalt not ____." Many government employees seem to think that to ____ is their privilege and prerogative. The crown jewels have been ____. She ____ a number of petty articles. A well-known detective story by Poe is called _The ____ Letter._ "Who ____ my purse ____ trash…. But he that ____ from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed." "A cut-purse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem ____, And put it in his pocket!"
Sentences: ____ him into the middle of next week. He ____ and ____ the poor beast unmercifully. "As of some one gently ____, ____ at my chamber door." "Unto him that ____ thee on the one cheek offer also the other." "Bid them come forth and hear me, Or at their chamber door I'll ____ the drum Till it cry sleep to death." "One whom I will ____ into clamorous whining." "____ for your altars and your fires!" By means of heavy stones the squaws ____ the corn into meal.
Sentences: "Between us and our hame [home], Where sits our ____, ____ dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm." A ____ old bachelor. A ____ Scotchman. He hated all men; he was truly ____. He sat ____ and silent all day; by nightfall he was truly ____.
Sentences: It was a queer assembly, and from it arose a queer medley of sounds: the baby was ____, the old crone ____, the gossip ____, the embarrassed young man ____, the child ____ the tale-bearer ____, the hostess ____ with the most distinguished guest, and the trickster ____ with his intended victim. "Blest with each talent and each art to please, And born to write, ____, and live with ease." "I wonder that you will still be ____, Signor Benedick; nobody marks you."
Sentences: The explosion of the shell ____ his flesh. The tailor ____ the garment along the seam. I'll ____ this paper into bits. Those savages would ____ you limb from limb. She ____ her dress on a nail. The cogs caught his hand and ____ it. How could such reproaches fail to ____ my feelings?
Sentences: Suddenly he ____ the glittering coins away. Goliath learned to his cost that David could ____ a stone. The explosion of the gunpowder ____ the bullet from the gun. "____ down your cups of Samian wine!" The children amused themselves by ____ the ball back and forth. He ____ himself dejectedly into a seat. The thief ____ a glance beside him. The mischievous boy ____ a stone through the window. They ____ some of the cargo overboard to lighten the boat. The eager fisherman ____ the fly for the trout. The untidy fellow ____ the towel in a corner.
Sentences: The drunken driver ____ the excited horses. The zealot was accustomed to ____ himself. The ruler bade that the Christians be ____. The teacher ____ the small children gently, but he unsparingly ____ the big ones. "My father hath ____ you with whips, but I will ____ you with scorpions." The bully was always ____ men smaller than himself till one of them turned on him and ____ him thoroughly.
Sentences: "I am fled From this ____ world, with ____ worms to dwell." A[n] ____ assault. "The ____ prize itself Buys out the law." It was, though not a[n] ____ act, a most ____ one. "There the ____ cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest."
Sentences: The plan had all the faults of ____ judgment. Many great authors have written books of ____ fiction. The bird, which was still ____, was of course unable to fly. "Such sights as ____ poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream." He was in that ____ stage of development when one is neither a boy nor a man. "I was so ____, I loved him so, I had No mother, God forgot me, and I fell." He made a[n] ____ attempt to impress them with his importance. "Bacchus ever fair, and ever ____." A red necktie gave him a more ____ appearance. The self-satisfied air of a[n] ____ youth is often trying to his elders.
In this exercise each group of synonyms is followed by quotations from authoritative writers in which the words are discriminatingly employed. Find the meaning of each italicized word in these quotations, and differentiate the word accurately from the others in that group. Substitute for it other words from the group, and observe precisely how the meaning is affected.
(So many of the quotations are from poetry that these will be printed as verse rather than, as in the preceding exercises, in continuous lines like prose.)
A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill notaffrontme,—and no other can.An oldaffrontwill stir the heartThrough years of rankling pain.
The way to procureinsultsis to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
It is often better not to see aninsultthan to avenge it.
Even a hare, the weakest of animals, mayinsulta dead lion.
To a native of rank, arrest was not merely a restraint, but a foul personalindignity.
His honor rooted indishonorstood,And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament,—the unhappy man who sinks under the sense of hisdishonor, or him who survives it.
Could he with reason murmur at his caseHimself sole author of his owndisgrace?
Whateverdisgracewe may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
When indisgracewith fortune and men's eyesI all alone beweep my outcast state.
Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours withignominyafter conquest.
Wilful perpetuations of unworthy actions brand with most indelible characters ofinfamythe name and memory to posterity.
And when his long public life, so singularly chequered with good and evil, with glory andobloquy, had at length closed forever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die.
Greatopprobriumhas been thrown on her name.
Letfame, that all hunt after in their lives,Live register'd upon our brazen tombs.
Men have a solicitude aboutfame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.
Fameis no plant that grows on mortal soil, . . . . . . . . But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so muchfamein heaven expect thy meed.
When faith is lost, whenhonordies,The man is dead.
The Athenians erected a large statue of Aesop, and placed him, though a slave, on a lasting pedestal, to show that the way tohonorlies open indifferently to all.
I could not love thee, dear, so much,Loved I nothonormore.
That nation is worthless which does not joyfully stake everything on herhonor.
By heaven methinks it were an easy leapTo pluck brighthonorfrom the pale-fac'd moon.
That merit which gives greatness andrenowndiffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast.
Speak no more of hisrenown,Lay your earthly fancies down,And in the vast cathedral leave him,God accept him, Christ receive him.
The young warrior did not fly; but met death as he went forward in his strength. Happy are they who dies in youth, when theirrenownis heard!
The paths ofglorylead but to the grave.
Glorylong has made the sages smile; 'tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind.
Not once or twice in our rough island-storyThe path of duty was the way toglory.
He was a charming fellow, clever, urbane, free-handed, with all that fortunate quality in his appearance which is known asdistinction.
Never get areputationfor a small perfection if you are trying forfamein a loftier area.
One may be better than hisreputationor his conduct, but never better than his principles.
I see myreputationis at stakeMyfameis shrewdly gor'd.
CASSIO.Reputation, reputation, reputation!O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation! IAGO. As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound.
You have a goodreputefor gentleness and wisdom.Celebritysells dearly what we think she gives.
Kings climb toeminenceOver men's graves.
Notorietyis short-lived;fameis lasting.
Thehatredwe bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
Hateis like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.
He generously forgot all feeling ofanimosity, and determined to go in person to his succor.
That thereby he may gatherThe ground of yourill-will, and so remove it.
No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or of deadlyenmitiesas an Indiaman.
There need be nohostilitybetween evolutionist and theologian.
Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks,His fits, his frenzy, and hisbitterness?
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,Nor set down aught inmalice.
Every obstacle which partisanmalevolencecould create he has had to encounter.
His flight is occasioned rather by themalignityof his countrymen than by the enmity of the Egyptians.
Where the soul sours, and gradualrancorgrows,Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day.
Peace in their mouthes, and allrancorand vengeance in their hartes [hearts].
For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd;Putrancorsin the vessel of my peaceOnly for them.
Herresentmentagainst the king seems not to have abated.
Mrs. W. was in highdudgeon; her heels clattered on the red-tiled floor, and she whisked about the house like a parched pea upon a drum-head.
If I can catch him once upon the hip,I will feed fat the ancientgrudgeI bear him.
Men of this character pursue agrudgeunceasingly, and never forget or forgive.
And since you ne'er provoked theirspite,Depend upon't their judgment's right.
Marriagesare made in heaven.
Hastymarriageseldom proveth well.
A man finds himself seven years older the day after hismarriage.
Let me not to themarriageof true mindsAdmit impediments.
Marriageis the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.
Matrimony—the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Wedlock'sa lane where there is no turning.
What iswedlockforced, but a hell,An age of discord and continual strife?
Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see;ThatmercyI to others show,Thatmercyshow to me.
The quality ofmercyis not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd;It blesseth him that gives and him that takes;* * * * *And earthly power doth then show likest God'sWhenmercyseasons justice.
Clemencyis the surest proof of a true monarch.
Lenitywill operate with greater force, in some instances, than vigor.
All the fellows tried to persuade the Master to greaterleniency, but in vain.
It will be necessary that this acceptance should be followed up by measures of the utmostlenience.
There is however a limit at whichforbearanceceases to be a virtue.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan,Hispitygave ere charity began.
Forpitymelts the mind to love.
Forpiteerenneth [runneth] soon in gentle herte [heart].
Oursympathyis cold to the relation of distant misery.
Man may dismisscompassionfrom his heart, but God will never.
It is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and hope, and brotherlycommiseration.
Their congratulations and theircondolencesare equally words of course.
Is there for honestpovertyThat hings [hangs] his head, and a' that?
Not to be able to bearpovertyis a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
Stitch! stitch! stitch!Inpoverty, hunger, and dirt,And still with a voice of dolorous pitch,Would that its tone could reach the Rich,She sang this "Song of the Shirt!"
Povertyis dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.
Wantis a bitter and hateful good,Because its virtues are not understood;Yet many things, impossible to thought,Have been byneedto full perfection brought.
Hundreds would never have knownwantif they had not first known waste.
O! reason not theneed; our basest beggarsAre in the poorest thing superfluous:Allow not nature more than nature needs,Man's life is cheap as beast's.
The Christian inhabitants of Thessaly would be reduced todestitution.
It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal theirindigencefrom the rest.
Chillpenuryrepress'd their noble rage,And froze the genial current of the soul.
Chillpenuryweighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
Wherepenuryis felt the thought is chain'd,And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
Regretsover the past should chasten the future.
He acknowledged his disloyalty to the king with expressions of greatcompunction.
Through no disturbance of my soul,Or strongcompunctionin me wrought,I supplicate for thy control.
God speaks to our hearts through the voice ofremorse.
To err is human; butcontritionfelt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
Christianpenitenceis something more than a thought or an emotion or a tear; it is action.
Repentancemust be something more than mereremorsefor sins; it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
For fools arestubbornin their way,As coins are harden'd by th' allay;Andobstinacy'sne'er so stiffAs when 'tis in a wrong belief.
They may also laugh at theirpertinaciousand incurable obstinacy.
He who isintractable, he whom nothing can persuade, may boast himself invincible.
There is a law in each well-order'd nationTo curb those raging appetites that areMost disobedient andrefractory.
He then dissolved Parliament, and sent its mostrefractorymembers to the Tower.
If he werecontumacious, he might be excommunicated, or, in other words, be deprived of all civil rights and imprisoned for life.
The following list of synonyms is given for the convenience of those who wish additional material with which to work. This is a selected list and makes no pretense to completeness. It is suggested that you discriminate the words within each of the following groups, and use each word accurately in a sentence of your own making.
Abettor, accessory, accomplice, confederate, conspirator.Acknowledge, admit, confess, own, avow.Active, agile, nimble, brisk, sprightly, spry, bustling.Advise, counsel, admonish, caution, warn.Affecting, moving, touching, pathetic.Agnostic, skeptic, infidel, unbeliever, disbeliever.Amuse, entertain, divert.Announce, proclaim, promulgate, report, advertise, publish, bruit, blazon,trumpet, herald.Antipathy, aversion, repugnance, disgust, loathing.Artifice, ruse, trick, dodge, manoeuver, wile, stratagem, subterfuge,finesse.Ascend, mount, climb, scale.Associate, colleague, partner, helper, collaborator, coadjutor, companion,helpmate, mate, team-mate, comrade, chum, crony, consort, accomplice,confederate.Attach, affix, annex, append, subjoin.Attack, assail, assault, invade, beset, besiege, bombard, cannonade,storm.
Begin, commence, inaugurate, initiate, institute, originate, start, found.Belief, faith, persuasion, conviction, tenet, creed.Belittle, decry, depreciate, disparage.Bind, secure, fetter, shackle, gyve.Bit, jot, mite, particle, grain, atom, speck, mote, whit, iota, tittle,scintilla.Bluff, blunt, outspoken, downright, brusk, curt, crusty.Boast, brag, vaunt, vapor, gasconade.Body, corpse, remains, relics, carcass, cadaver, corpus.Bombastic, sophomoric, turgid, tumid, grandiose, grandiloquent,magniloquent.Boorish, churlish, loutish, clownish, rustic, ill-bred.Booty, plunder, loot, spoil.Brittle, frangible, friable, fragile, crisp.Building, edifice, structure, house.
Call, clamor, roar, scream, shout, shriek, vociferate, yell, halloo,whoop.Calm, still, motionless, tranquil, serene, placid.Care, concern, solicitude, anxiety.Celebrate, commemorate, observe.Charm, amulet, talisman.Charm, enchant, fascinate, captivate, enrapture, bewitch, infatuate,enamor.Cheat, defraud, swindle, dupe.Choke, strangle, suffocate, stifle, throttle.Choose, pick, select, cull, elect.Coax, wheedle, cajole, tweedle, persuade, inveigle.Color, hue, shade, tint, tinge, tincture.Combine, unite, consolidate, merge, amalgamate, weld, incorporate,confederate.Comfort, console, solace.Complain, grumble, growl, murmur, repine, whine, croak.Confirmed, habitual, inveterate, chronic.Connect, join, link, couple, attach, unite.Continual, continuous, unceasing, incessant, endless, uninterrupted,unremitting, constant, perpetual, perennial.Contract, agreement, bargain, compact, covenant, stipulation.Copy, duplicate, counterpart, likeness, reproduction, replica, facsimile.Corrupt, depraved, perverted, vitiated.Costly, expensive, dear.Coterie, clique, cabal, circle, set, faction, party.Critical, judicial, impartial, carping, caviling, captious, censorious.Crooked, awry, askew.Cross, fretful, peevish, petulant, pettish, irritable, irascible, angry.Crowd, throng, horde, host, mass, multitude, press, jam, concourse.Curious, inquisitive, prying, meddlesome.
Dainty, delicate, exquisite, choice, rare.Danger, peril, jeopardy, hazard, risk.Darken, obscure, bedim, obfuscate.Dead, lifeless, inanimate, deceased, defunct, extinct.Decay, decompose, putrefy, rot, spoil.Deceit, deception, double-dealing, duplicity, chicanery, guile, treachery.Deceptive, deceitful, misleading, fallacious, fraudulent.Decorate, adorn, ornament, embellish, deck, bedeck, garnish, bedizen,beautify.Decorous, demure, sedate, sober, staid, prim, proper.Deface, disfigure, mar, mutilate.Defect, fault, imperfection, disfigurement, blemish, flaw.Delay, defer, postpone, procrastinate.Demoralize, deprave, debase, corrupt, vitiate.Deportment, demeanor, bearing, port, mien.Deprive, divest, dispossess, strip, despoil.Despise, contemn, scorn, disdain.Despondency, despair, desperation.Detach, separate, sunder, sever, disconnect, disjoin, disunite.Determined, persistent, dogged.Devout, religious, pious, godly, saintly.Difficulty, hindrance, obstacle, impediment, encumbrance, handicap.Difficulty, predicament, perplexity, plight, quandary, dilemma, strait.Dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, squalid.Discernment, perception, penetration, insight, acumen.Disgraceful, dishonorable, shameful, disreputable, ignominious,opprobrious, scandalous, infamous.Disgusting, sickening, repulsive, revolting, loathsome, repugnant,abhorrent, noisome, fulsome.Dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter.Dissatisfied, discontented, displeased, malcontent, disgruntled.Divide, distribute, apportion, allot, allocate, partition.Doctrine, dogma, tenet, precept.Dream, reverie, vision, fantasy.Drip, dribble, trickle.Drunk, drunken, intoxicated, inebriated.Dry, arid, parched, desiccated.
Eat, bolt, gulp, gorge, devour.Encroach, infringe, intrench, trench, intrude, invade, trespass.End, conclude, terminate, finish, discontinue, close.Enemy, foe, adversary, opponent, antagonist, rival.Enough, adequate, sufficient.Entice, inveigle, allure, lure, decoy, seduce.Erase, expunge, cancel, efface, obliterate.Error, mistake, blunder, slip.Estimate, value, appreciate.Eternal, everlasting, endless, deathless, imperishable, immortal.Examination, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, inspection,scrutiny, research, review, audit, inquest, autopsy.Example, sample, specimen, instance.Exceed, excel, surpass, transcend, outdo.Expand, dilate, distend, inflate.Expel, banish, exile, proscribe, ostracize.Experiment, trial, test.Explicit, exact, precise, definite.
Faculty, gift, endowment, aptitude, attribute, talent, predilection, bent.Failing, shortcoming, defect, fault, foible, infirmity.Famous, renowned, celebrated, noted, distinguished, eminent, illustrious.Fashion, mode, style, vogue, rage, fad.Fast, rapid, swift, quick, fleet, speedy, hasty, celeritous, expeditious,instantaneous.Fasten, tie, hitch, moor, tether.Fate, destiny, lot, doom.Fawn, truckle, cringe, crouch.Feign, pretend, dissemble, simulate, counterfeit, affect, assume.Fiendish, devilish, diabolical, demoniacal, demonic, satanic.Fertile, fecund, fruitful, prolific.Fit, suitable, appropriate, proper.Flame, blaze, flare, glare, glow.Flat, level, even, plane, smooth, horizontal.Flatter, blandish, beguile, compliment, praise.Flexible, pliable, pliant, supple, limber, lithe, lissom.Flit, flutter, flicker, hover.Flock, herd, bevy, covey, drove, pack, brood, litter, school.Flow, pour, stream, gush, spout.Follow, pursue, chase.Follower, adherent, disciple, partisan, henchman.Fond, loving, doting, devoted, amorous, enamored.Force, strength, power, energy, vigor, might, potency, cogency, efficacy.Force, compulsion, coercion, constraint, restraint.Free, liberate, emancipate, manumit, release, disengage, disentangle,disembarrass, disencumber, extricate.Freshen, refresh, revive, renovate, renew.Friendly, amicable, companionable, hearty, cordial, neighborly, sociable,genial, complaisant, affable.Frighten, affright, alarm, terrify, terrorize, dismay, appal, daunt,scare.Frown, scowl, glower, lower.Frugal, sparing, saving, economical, chary, thrifty, provident,prudent.
Game, play, amusement, pastime, diversion, fun, sport, entertainment.Gather, accumulate, amass, collect, levy, muster, hoard.Ghost, spirit, specter, phantom, apparition, shade, phantasm.Gift, present, donation, grant, gratuity, bequest, boon, bounty, largess,fee, bribe.Grand, magnificent, gorgeous, splendid, superb, sublime.Greet, hail, salute, address, accost.Grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, trouble, tribulation, woe.Grieve, lament, mourn, bemoan, bewail, deplore, rue.Guard, defend, protect, shield, shelter, screen, preserve.
Habitation, abode, dwelling, residence, domicile, home.Harmful, injurious, detrimental, pernicious, deleterious, baneful,noxious.Have, possess, own, hold.Headstrong, wayward, wilful, perverse, froward.Help (noun), aid, assistance, succor.Help (verb), assist, aid, succor, abet, second, support, befriend.Hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver.Hide, conceal, secrete.High, tall, lofty, elevated, towering.Hint, intimate, insinuate.Hopeful, expectant, sanguine, optimistic, confident.Hopeless, despairing, disconsolate, desperate.Holy, sacred, hallowed, sanctified, consecrated, godly, pious, saintly,blessed.
Impolite, discourteous, inurbane, uncivil, rude, disrespectful, pert,saucy, impertinent, impudent, insolent.Importance, consequence, moment.Impostor, pretender, charlatan, masquerader, mountebank, deceiver,humbug, cheat, quack, shyster, empiric.Imprison, incarcerate, immure.Improper, indecent, indecorous, unseemly, unbecoming, indelicate.Impure, tainted, contaminated, polluted, defiled, vitiated.Inborn, innate, inbred, congenital.Incite, instigate, stimulate, impel, arouse, goad, spur, promote.Inclose, surround, encircle, circumscribe, encompass.Increase, grow, enlarge, magnify, amplify, swell, augment.Indecent, indelicate, immodest, shameless, ribald, lewd, lustful,lascivious, libidinous, obscene.Insane, demented, deranged, crazy, mad.Insanity, dementia, derangement, craziness, madness, lunacy, mania,frenzy, hallucination.Insipid, tasteless, flat, vapid.Intention, intent, purpose, plan, design, aim, object, end.Interpose, intervene, intercede, interfere, mediate.Irreligious, ungodly, impious, godless, sacrilegious, blasphemous,profane.Irritate, exasperate, nettle, incense.
Join, connect, unite, couple, combine, link, annex, append.
Kindle, ignite, inflame, rouse.
Lack, want, need, deficiency, dearth, paucity, scarcity, deficit.Lame, crippled, halt, deformed, maimed, disabled.Large, great, big, huge, immense, colossal, gigantic, extensive, vast,massive, unwieldy, bulky.Laughable, comical, comic, farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous, funny, droll.Lead, guide, conduct, escort, convoy.Lengthen, prolong, protract, extend.Lessen, decrease, diminish, reduce, abate, curtail, moderate, mitigate,palliate.Lie (noun), untruth, falsehood, falsity, fiction, fabrication, mendacity,canard, fib, story.Lie (verb), prevaricate, falsify, equivocate, quibble, shuffle, dodge,fence, fib.Likeness, resemblance, similitude, similarity, semblance, analogy.Limp, flaccid, flabby, flimsy.List, roll, catalogue, register, roster, schedule, inventory.Loud, resonant, clarion, stentorian, sonorous.Low, base, abject, servile, slavish, menial.Loyal, faithful, true, constant, staunch, unwavering, steadfast.Lurk, skulk, slink, sneak, prowl.
Make, create, frame, fashion, mold, shape, form, forge, fabricate, invent,construct, manufacture, concoct.Manifest, plain, obvious, clear, apparent, patent, evident, perceptible,noticeable, open, overt, palpable, tangible, indubitable, unmistakable.Many, various, numerous, divers, manifold, multitudinous, myriad,countless, innumerable.Meaning, significance, signification, import, purport.Meet, encounter, collide, confront, converge.Meeting, assembly, assemblage, congregation, convention, conference,concourse, gathering, mustering.Melt, thaw, fuse, dissolve, liquefy.Memory, remembrance, recollection, reminiscence, retrospection.Misrepresent, misinterpret, falsify, distort, warp.Mix, compound, amalgamate, weld, combine, blend, concoct.Model, pattern, prototype, criterion, standard, exemplar, paragon,archetype, ideal.Motive, incentive, inducement, desire, purpose.Move, actuate, impel, prompt, incite.
Near, nigh, close, neighboring, adjacent, contiguous.Neat, tidy, orderly, spruce, trim, prim.Needful, necessary, requisite, essential, indispensable.Negligence, neglect, inattention, inattentiveness, inadvertence,remissness, oversight.New, novel, fresh, recent, modern, late, innovative, unprecedented.Nice, fastidious, dainty, finical, squeamish.Noisy, clamorous, boisterous, hilarious, turbulent, riotous, obstreperous,uproarious, vociferous, blatant, brawling.Noticeable, prominent, conspicuous, salient, signal.
Order (noun), command, mandate, behest, injunction, decree.Order (verb), command, enjoin, direct, instruct.Oversight, supervision, direction, superintendence, surveillance.
Pale, pallid, wan, colorless, blanched, ghastly, ashen, cadaverous.Patience, forbearance, resignation, longsuffering.Penetrate, pierce, perforate.Place, office, post, position, situation, appointment.Plan, design, project, scheme, plot.Playful, mischievous, roguish, prankish, sportive, arch.Plentiful, plenteous, abundant, bounteous, copious, profuse, exuberant,luxuriant.Plunder, rifle, loot, sack, pillage, devastate, despoil.Pretty, beautiful, comely, handsome, fair.Profitable, remunerative, lucrative, gainful.Prompt, punctual, ready, expeditious.Pull, draw, drag, haul, tug, tow.Push, shove, thrust.Puzzle, perplex, mystify, bewilder.
Queer, odd, curious, quaint, ridiculous, singular, unique, bizarre, fantastic, grotesque.
Rash, incautious, reckless, foolhardy, adventurous, venturous,venturesome.Rebellion, insurrection, revolt, mutiny, riot, revolution, sedition.Recover, regain, retrieve, recoup, rally, recuperate.Reflect, deliberate, ponder, muse, meditate, ruminate.Relate, recount, recite, narrate, tell.Replace, supersede, supplant, succeed.Repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, grewsome.Requital, retaliation, reprisal, revenge, vengeance, retribution.Responsible, answerable, accountable, amenable, liable.Reveal, disclose, divulge, manifest, show, betray.Reverence, veneration, awe, adoration, worship.Ridicule, deride, mock, taunt, flout, twit, tease.Ripe, mature, mellow.Rise, arise, mount, ascend.Rogue, knave, rascal, miscreant, scamp, sharper, villain.Round, circular, rotund, spherical, globular, orbicular.Rub, polish, burnish, furbish, scour.
Sad, grave, sober, moody, doleful, downcast, dreary, woeful, somber,unhappy, woebegone, mournful, depressed, despondent, gloomy, melancholy,heavy-spirited, sorrowful, dismal, dejected, disconsolate, miserable,lugubrious.Satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, glut, gorge.Scoff, jeer, gibe, fleer, sneer, mock, taunt.Secret, covert, surreptitious, furtive, clandestine, underhand, stealthy.Seep, ooze, infiltrate, percolate, transude, exude.Sell, barter, vend, trade.Shape, form, figure, outline, conformation, configuration, contour,profile.Share, partake, participate, divide.Sharp, keen, acute, cutting, trenchant, incisive.Shore, coast, littoral, beach, strand, bank.Shorten, abridge, abbreviate, curtail, truncate, syncopate.Show (noun), display, ostentation, parade, pomp, splurge.Show, exhibit, display, expose, manifest, evince.Shrink, flinch, wince, blench, quail.Shun, avoid, eschew.Shy, bashful, diffident, modest, coy, timid, shrinking.Sign, omen, auspice, portent, prognostic, augury, foretoken, adumbration,presage, indication.Simple, innocent, artless, unsophisticated, naive.Skilful, skilled, expert, adept, apt, proficient, adroit, dexterous, deft,clever, ingenious.Skin, hide, pelt, fell.Sleepy, drowsy, slumberous, somnolent, sluggish, torpid, dull, lethargic.Slovenly, slatternly, dowdy, frowsy, blowzy.Sly, crafty, cunning, subtle, wily, artful, politic, designing.Smile, smirk, grin.Solitary, lonely, lone, lonesome, desolate, deserted, uninhabited.Sour, acid, tart, acrid, acidulous, acetose, acerbitous, astringent.Speech, discourse, oration, address, sermon, declamation, dissertation,exhortation, disquisition, harangue, diatribe, tirade, screed, philippic,invective, rhapsody, plea.Spruce, natty, dapper, smart, chic.Stale, musty, frowzy, mildewed, fetid, rancid, rank.Steep, precipitous, abrupt.Stingy, close, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, sordid,Storm, tempest, whirlwind, hurricane, tornado, cyclone, typhoonStraight, perpendicular, vertical, plumb, erect, upright.Strange, singular, peculiar, odd, queer, quaint, outlandish.Strong, stout, robust, sturdy, stalwart, powerful.Stupid, dull, obtuse, stolid, doltish, sluggish, brainless, bovine.Succeed, prosper, thrive, flourish, triumph.Succession, sequence, series.Supernatural, preternatural, superhuman, miraculous.Suppose, surmise, conjecture, presume, imagine, fancy, guess, think,believe.Surprise, astonish, amaze, astound.Swearing, cursing, profanity, blasphemy, execration, imprecation.
Teach, instruct, educate, train, discipline, drill, inculcate, instil,indoctrinate.Thoughtful, contemplative, meditative, reflective, pensive, wistful.Tire, weary, fatigue, exhaust, jade, fag.Tool, implement, instrument, utensil.Trifle, dally, dawdle, potter.Try, endeavor, essay, attempt.Trust, confidence, reliance, assurance, faith.Turn, revolve, rotate, spin, whirl, gyrate.
Ugly, homely, uncomely, hideous.Unwilling, reluctant, disinclined, loath, averse.
Watchful, vigilant, alert.Wave (noun), billow, breaker, swell, ripple, undulation.Wave (verb), brandish, flourish, flaunt, wigwag.Weariness, languor, lassitude, enervation, exhaustion.Wearisome, tiresome, irksome, tedious, humdrum.Wet (adjective), humid, moist, damp, dank, sodden, soggy.Wet (verb), moisten, dampen, soak, imbrue, saturate, drenchWhim, caprice, vagary, fancy, freak, whimsey, crotchet.Wind, breeze, gust, blast, flaw, gale, squall, flurry.Wind, coil, twist, twine, wreathe.Winding, tortuous, serpentine, sinuous, meandering.Wonderful, marvelous, phenomenal, miraculous.Workman, laborer, artisan, artificer, mechanic, craftsman.Write, inscribe, scribble, scrawl, scratch.
Yearn, long, hanker, pine, crave.
Write three synonyms for each of the following words. Discriminate the three, and embody each of them in a sentence.
Accomplish Conduct (noun) Humble ScreamAgree Conspicuous Indifferent ShrewdAnger Cringe Misfortune ShudderAttempt Difficult Obey SkillBig Disconnect Object (noun) SoftBrute Erratic Object (verb) SplashBusiness Flash Obligation SuccessCareless Fragrant Occupied SweetClimb Gain Oppose TrickCollect Generous Persist WashCommanding Grim Revise WorshipCompel Groan Room
Supply eight or ten intervening words between each of the following pairs.Arrange the intervening words in an ascending scale.
Dark, bright Wet, drySavage, civilized Beautiful, uglyFriend, enemy Hope, despairWise, foolish Love, hateEnormous, minute Admirable, abominableCurse, bless Pride, humility