English Synonyms and Antonyms

Chapter 189

SALE (page 323).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _change_ or _exchange_? 2. What is _barter_? _sale_? 3. What is a _bargain_ in the strict sense? 4. What is _trade_ in the broad and in the limited sense?

EXAMPLES.

Honor sits smiling at the ---- of truth.

I"ll give thrice as much land to any well-deserving friend, But in the way of ----, mark ye me, I"ll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.

Stamps G.o.d"s own name upon a lie just made To coin a penny in the way of ----.

SAMPLE (page 323).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _sample_? a _specimen_? 2. How do _sample_ and _specimen_ compare as indications of the quality of that which they respectively represent?

EXAMPLES.

There is, therefore, in this country, an implied warranty that the goods correspond to the ----.

Curzola is a perfect ---- of a Venetian town.

SCHOLAR (page 324).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the primary sense of _scholar_? the derived sense? 2. What does _pupil_ signify? How is it technically used in educational work? 3.

In what sense is _student_ employed?

EXAMPLES.

The accent or turn of expression of a single sentence will at once mark a ----.

The State of New York supplies all needed text-books free of charge to the ----s in the public schools.

The ----s in American colleges have taken up athletics with intense enthusiasm.

SCIENCE (page 325).

QUESTIONS.

1. How does _science_ compare with _knowledge_? 2. How does _art_ compare with _science_? 3. What two senses of _art_ must be discriminated from each other? 4. In which sense is _art_ a system of rules? 5. In which sense does _art_ transcend rule?

EXAMPLES.

Beethoven took his ---- as seriously as a saint and martyr takes his religion.

Modern ---- may be regarded as one vast miracle, whether we view it in relation to the Almighty Being, by whom its objects and its laws were formed, or to the feeble intellect of man, by which its depths have been sounded, and its mysteries explored.

Printing has been aptly termed the ---- preservative of all other ----s.

SECURITY (page 326).

QUESTIONS.

1. Of what kind of value or property must an _earnest_ consist? 2. How do _pledge_ and _security_ differ from _earnest_? 3. How does _security_ differ from _pledge_? 4. What is _bail_? _gage_?

EXAMPLES.

The ---- for a national or state debt is the honesty of its people.

The surest ---- of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

And for an ---- of a greater honor, He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor.

SENSATION (page 328).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _sensation_? a _perception_? 2. How does an _emotion_ differ from a _sensation_? 3. How does the popular term _feeling_ compare with _sensation_ and _emotion_? 4. What is a _sense_?

EXAMPLES.