English Synonyms and Antonyms Part 188

EXAMPLES.

According to the wish of Sulla himself, ... his monument was erected in the Campus Martius, bearing an inscription composed by himself: "No friend ever did me a kindness, no enemy a wrong, without receiving full ----."

By the spirit of ----, as we sometimes express it, we generally understand a disposition, not merely to return suffering for suffering, but to inflict a degree of pain on the person who is supposed to have injured us, beyond what strict justice requires.

In all great religions we find one G.o.d, and in all, personal immortality with ----.

REVOLUTION (page 317).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is the essential idea of _revolution_? 2. Does a _revolution_ necessarily involve war? 3. What is _anarchy_? _insubordination_?

_sedition_? _revolt_? _rebellion_? 4. How does _rebellion_ differ from _revolution_? 5. By what cla.s.s of persons is _insurrection_ made?

_mutiny_?

EXAMPLES.

----s are not made; they come.

---- to tyrants is obedience to G.o.d.

Since government is of G.o.d, ---- must be contrary to his will.

REVOLVE (page 318).

QUESTIONS.

1. When is a body said to _roll_? to _rotate_? to _revolve_? 2. In what sense may the earth be said to _revolve_? and in what sense to _rotate_?

3. What are some of the extended uses of _roll_? 4. What kind of a word is _turn_, and what is its meaning?

EXAMPLES.

Any bright star close by the pole is seen to ---- in a very small circle whose center is the pole itself.

The sun ----s on an axis in the same direction in which the planets ---- in their orbits.

Human nature can never rest; once in motion it ----s like the stone of Sisyphus every instant when the resisting force is suspended.

RIGHT (page 319).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a _right_? Is it general or special? 2. What is a _privilege_? an _exemption_? an _immunity_? 3. What is a _franchise_? a _prerogative_?

EXAMPLES.

Friends.h.i.+p gives no ---- to make ourselves disagreeable.

All men are created equal, and endowed with certain inalienable ----s.

RUSTIC (page 321).

QUESTIONS.

1. From what are _rural_ and _rustic_ alike derived? How do the two words agree in general signification? How are they discriminated in use?

2. What is the meaning of _pastoral_? of _bucolic_?

EXAMPLES.

How still the morning of the hallowed day!

Mute is the voice of ---- labor, hush'd The plowboy's whistle and the milkmaid's song.

The ---- arbor which the summit crowned Was woven of s.h.i.+ning smilax, trumpet-vine, Clematis, and the wild white eglantine.

When hunting tribes begin to domesticate animals, they enter usually upon the ---- stage.

SACRAMENT (page 321).

QUESTIONS.

1. What is a religious _service_ in the extended sense? 2. What is a _sacrament_? 3. What is an _observance_? an _ordinance_? 4. How do _sacrament_ and _ordinance_ differ? 5. What is a _rite_?

EXAMPLES.

Religion will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ----s.

Nothing tends more to unite men's hearts than joining together in the same prayers and ----s.