English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 187

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _regret_? 2. What does _penitence_ add to _regret_? 3. How does _repentance_ surpa.s.s the meaning of _penitence_, _regret_, _sorrow_, etc.? 4. What is _compunction_? _contrition_? 5. What is _remorse_, and how does it compare with _repentance_?

EXAMPLES.

What then? what rests?

Try what ---- can: what can it not?

Forgive me, Valentine, if hearty ---- Be a sufficient ransom for offense, I tender't here.

So writhes the mind ---- has riven, Unmeet for earth, undoomed to heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.

REPROOF (page 311).

QUESTIONS.

1. Are _blame_, _censure_, and _disapproval_ spoken or silent? 2. Are _comment_, _criticism_, _rebuke_, _reflection_, _reprehension_, and _reproof_ expressed or not? 3. How of _admonition_ and _animadversion_?

4. Are _comment_ and _criticism_ favorable or unfavorable? Do they imply superiority on the part of commentator or critic? 5. Do _reflection_ and _reprehension_ imply such superiority? How are these two words discriminated? 6. What does _rebuke_ literally signify? To what kind of person is a _rebuke_ administered? 7. To what kind of person is _reproof_ administered? 8. What do _rebuke_ and _reproof_ imply on the part of him who administers them? 9. What is _animadversion_?

_admonition_?

EXAMPLES.

A ---- is intolerable when it is administered out of pride or hatred.

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful ---- of a friend.

Open ---- is better than secret love.

REPROVE (page 312).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _censure_? to _reprove_? to _reprimand_ 2. How does _admonish_ compare with the other words in the group? Is its reference to the past or to the future? 3. What is it to _reproach_? Does this word imply authority or superiority? 4. What is the force of _expostulate_ and _remonstrate_?

EXAMPLES.

He that oppresseth the poor ----eth his Maker.

Her answer ----ed me; for she said, "I never ask their crimes, for we have all come short."

Moses was ----ed of G.o.d when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, see, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

This witness is true. Therefore ---- them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.

REST (page 313).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _ease_? _quiet_? _rest_? 2. What is _recreation_, and how is it related to _rest_? 3. What is _repose_ in the primary, and what in the derived, sense? 4. How does _repose_ compare with _rest_? 5. What is a _pause_? 6. How does _sleep_ compare with _repose_ and _rest_?

EXAMPLES.

Seek out, less often sought than found, A soldier's grave--for thee the best; Then look around, and choose thy ground, And take thy ----.

Her manners had not that ---- That stamps the cast of Vere de Vere.

Shall I not take mine ---- in mine inn?

RESTRAIN (page 315).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is it to _restrain_? 2. How does _constrain_ differ from _restrain_? 3. How does _restrain_ differ from _restrict_? 4. How does _repress_ compare with _restrain_? _suppress_?

EXAMPLES.

The English Puritans, ----ed at home, fled for freedom to America.

In no political system is it so necessary to ---- the powers of the government as in a democratic state.

REVENGE (page 316).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is _revenge_? 2. How does _retaliation_ compare with _revenge_?

3. What did _vengeance_ formerly mean, and what does it now imply? 4.

What is a _requital_? 5. How do _avenging_ and _retribution_ differ from _retaliation_, _revenge_, and _vengeance_? 6. What difference may be noted between _avenging_ and _retribution_?