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English Synonyms and Antonyms Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the English Synonyms and Antonyms novel. A total of 196 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : English Synonyms and Antonyms.by James Champlin Fernald.PREFACE.The English language is
English Synonyms and Antonyms.by James Champlin Fernald.PREFACE.The English language is peculiarly rich in synonyms, as, with such a history, it could not fail to be. From the time of Julius Caesar, Britons, Romans, Northmen, Saxons, Danes, and Normans fi
- 196 _hireling_? 2. How are _mercenary_ and _venal_ discriminated from _hireling_?EXAMPLES.The closing quarter of the nineteenth century may be termed the ---- era of American politics. Never before has legislation been so universally, so unscrupulously, and u
- 195 TRANSACT, TRANSACTION (page 360).QUESTIONS.1. How does _transact_ differ from _do_? 2. How does _transact_ differ from _treat_ and _negotiate_? 3. How does _negotiate_ compare with _treat_? 4. How do _transactions_ differ from _proceedings_?EXAMPLES.In th
- 194 1. What is the literal meaning of _term_? 2. Is this meaning retained in the figurative uses of the word? 3. What are the _articles_ of a contract? the _terms_ of a contract? 4. What is a _condition_? 5. What is a _term_ in the logical sense? 6. How does
- 193 It was something altogether ----, as when G.o.d said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.With an imagination of intense vividness and ---- activity, Choate was as practical as the most sordid capitalist that ever became an "incarnati
- 192 STATE, _v._ (page 341).QUESTIONS.1. From what is _state_ derived? What does it mean? 2. What is the significance of _a.s.sert_? What element is prominent in this word? 3.What is the relative force of _affirm_ and _a.s.sert_? _a.s.severate_?_aver_? _a.s.su
- 191 QUESTIONS.1. What does _skilful_ signify? 2. How does _dexterous_ compare with _skilful_? 3. How does a _skilled_ compare with a _skilful_ workman?EXAMPLES.So ---- seamen ken the land from far, Which shows like mists to the dull pa.s.senger.Thousands of -
- 190 But ----, in the technical and limited sense of the term, is appropriated to the knowledge of material objects, and of the external world. This knowledge is gained or acquired by means of the ----s, and hence, to be more exact, we call it sensible ----, o
- 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. Ill give t
- 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 -
- 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 _r
- 186 REFINEMENT (page 305).QUESTIONS.1. To what does _civilization_ apply, and what does it denote? 2. What is _refinement_? 3. What is the primary meaning of _cultivation_? the derived meaning? 4. By what word is _cultivation_ now largely superseded? 5. What
- 185 And what is so ---- as a day in June?Then, if ever, come perfect days.REACH (page 300).QUESTIONS.1. What is it to _reach_ in the sense here considered? 2. What is it to _arrive_? 3. What does _attain_ add to the meaning of _arrive_? What does _gain_ add?E
- 184 EXAMPLES. A ----, shy man was this pastor--a sort of living mummy, dried up and bleached by Icelandic snows. In setting a hen, says Grose, the good women hold it an indispensable rule to put an ---- number of eggs. Only a man of undoubted genius can affor
- 183 EXAMPLES.I know, indeed, the evil of that I ----, but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.Man ----s, but G.o.d disposes.PROTRACT (page 293).QUESTIONS.1. What is it to _protract_? 2. What is the significance of _defer_ and _delay_, and how do the
- 182 PROGRESS (page 289).QUESTIONS.1. What is _progress_? 2. What do _attainment_, _proficiency_, and _development_ imply? 3. What is _advance_? How does it differ from _progress_?EXAMPLES.What is thy ---- compared with an Alexander's, a Mahomet's, a Napoleo
- 181 The contrary supposition is obviously ----.When the Siberian Pacific Railway is finished, what is there to ---- Russia from annexing nearly the whole of China?There appears to be no way to ---- the difficulty.PREVIOUS (page 285).QUESTIONS.1. What does _an
- 180 Hesiod exhorted the husbandman to ---- for a harvest, but to do so with his hand upon the plow. I kneel, and then ---- her blessing. PRECARIOUS (page 282). QUESTIONS. 1. To what is the term _uncertain_ applied? 2. What did _precarious_ originally signify?
- 179 He hasted, and opposed the rocky orb Of tenfold adamant, his ---- s.h.i.+eld.POETRY (page 277).QUESTIONS.1. What is _poetry_? 2. Does _poetry_ involve _rime_? Does it require _meter_? 3. What is imperatively required beyond _verse_, _rime_, or _meter_ to
- 178 EXAMPLES.---- punishment is practically abandoned in the greater number of American schools.Man has two parts, the one ---- and earthly, the other immaterial and spiritual.These races are all clearly differentiated by other ---- traits than the color of t
- 177 For her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for ---- clothing.PERMISSION (page 269).QUESTIONS.1. What is _authority_? 2. What is _permission_? 3. How does _permission_ compare with _allowance_? 4. What is a _
- 176 QUESTIONS.1. What is _patience_? 2. What is _endurance_? 3. How does _patience_ compare with _submission_ and _endurance_? 4. To what are _submission_ and _resignation_ ordinarily applied? 5. What is _forbearance_? How does it compare with _patience_?EXAM
- 175 To each his ----s; all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's ----, The unfeeling for his own.The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ----, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature.PALLIATE (page 261).QUESTIONS.1.
- 174 OPERATION (page 258).QUESTIONS.1. What does _operation_ denote? and by what kind of agent is it effected? 2. What do _performance_ and _execution_ denote? and by what kind of agents are they effected? 3. How does _performance_ differ from _execution_?EXAM
- 173 OATH (page 254).QUESTIONS.1. What is an _oath_? an _affidavit_? How does the _affidavit_ differ from the _oath_? 2. What is an _adjuration_? 3. What is a _vow_? How does it differ from an _oath_? 4. Of what words is _oath_ a popular synonym? 5. In what do
- 172 EXAMPLES. As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is ---- for you in a book. The ideas of s.p.a.ce and time are called in philosophy ---- ideas. NECESSITY (page 250). QUESTIONS. 1. What is _necessity_? 2. What do _need_ and _want_
- 171 EXAMPLES.That ---- is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.There is no death! What seems so is ----; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.The Copernican theory first clea
- 170 1. What is _misfortune_? Is the sufferer considered blameworthy for it? 2. What is _calamity_? _disaster_? 3. In what special sense are the words _affliction_, _chastening_, _trial_, and _tribulation_ used? How are these four words discriminated the one f
- 169 Sweetest ---- Are those that are by distance made more sweet.----, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory.Ring out ye crystal spheres And with your ninefold ---- Make up full consort to the angelic ----.MEMORY (page 239).QUESTIONS.1. What is _memory
- 168 The mason ----, the architect ----. I a.s.sert confidently that it is in the power of one American mother to ---- as many gentlemen as she has sons. Newton discovered, but did not ---- the law of gravitation. The river flows over a bed of pebbles like tho
- 167 LITERATURE (page 233).QUESTIONS.1. What is _literature_ in the most general sense? in more limited sense? 2. What does _literature_, used absolutely, denote? 3. How may _literature_ include _science_? How is it ordinarily contrasted with _science_?EXAMPLE
- 166 LAW (page 229).QUESTIONS.1. What is the definition of _law_ in its ideal? What does it signify in common use? 2. What are the characteristics of _command_ and _commandment_? of an _edict_? 3. What is a _mandate_? a _statute_? an _enactment_? 4. In what sp
- 165 QUESTIONS.1. What is it to _kill_? 2. To what are _a.s.sa.s.sinate_, _execute_, and _murder_ restricted? 3. What is the specific meaning of _murder_?_execute_? _a.s.sa.s.sinate_? To what cla.s.s of persons is the latter word ordinarily applied? 4. What is
- 164 Dion, his brother, ---- for him and his life was saved. Nature has ---- a natural barrier between England and the continent. INVOLVE (page 223). QUESTIONS. 1. From what language is _involve_ derived, and with what primary meaning? 2. How does _involve_ co
- 163 QUESTIONS.1. From what language is _injury_ derived? What is its primary meaning?Its derived meaning? 2. How inclusive a word is _injury_? 3. From what is _damage_ derived, and with what original sense? _detriment_? How do these words compare in actual us
- 162 Perhaps the widest and best known ---- of Biology, is that organisms grow.INDUSTRIOUS (page 215).QUESTIONS.1. How does _busy_ differ from _industrious_? 2. What is the implication if we say one is _industrious_ just now? 3. What does _diligent_ add to the
- 161 EXAMPLES. Trust no Future, howeer pleasant! Let the dead Past ---- its dead. The s.h.i.+ps of war, Congress and c.u.mberland, were ---- by the Merrimac. When food can not be swallowed, life may be prolonged by ---- the body in nutritive fluids. IMMINENT (
- 160 Every man has at times in his mind the ---- of what he should be, but is not.IDIOCY (page 207).QUESTIONS.1. What is _idiocy_? 2. What is _imbecility_? How does it compare with _idiocy_? 3. How does _insanity_ differ from _idiocy_ or _imbecility_?4. How do
- 159 1. What is a _hunt_? 2. For what is a _chase_ or _pursuit_ conducted? a _search_? 3. What does _hunt_ ordinarily include? 4. Is it correct to use _hunt_ when _search_ only is contemplated? 5. How are these words used in the figurative senses?EXAMPLES.Amon
- 158 QUESTIONS. 1. What is _history_? How does it relate events? To what cla.s.s of events does it apply? 2. How does _history_ differ from _annals_ or _chronicles_? EXAMPLES. Happy the people whose ---- are dulled. ---- is little else than a picture of human
- 157 4. Which implies the seconding of another's exertions? Do we _aid_ or _help_ the helpless? 5. How do _cooperate_ and _a.s.sist_ differ? 6. To what do _encourage_ and _uphold_ refer? _succor_ and _support_?EXAMPLES.He does not prevent a crime when he
- 156 _return_? 5. Is _harvest_ capable of figurative use, and in what sense?6. What is the special meaning of _harvest-home_? _harvest-tide_?_harvest-time_?EXAMPLES.Just tickle the earth with a hoe, and she laughs with an abundant ----.And the ripe ---- of the
- 155 HAPPEN (page 188).QUESTIONS.1. What does _happen_ signify? 2. How does it differ from _chance_? 3.What is the distinctive meaning of _betide_? 4. How do both _befall_ and _betide_ differ from _happen_ in grammatical construction? 5. What is the meaning of
- 154 GIVE (page 185).QUESTIONS.1. What is the primary meaning of _give_? the secondary meaning? 2. Can we _give_ what is undesired? 3. Can we _give_ what we are paid for? 4.How is _give_ always understood when there is no limitation in the context? 5. Is it co
- 153 EXAMPLES.The maternal relation naturally and necessarily divides the work of the ----s giving to woman the indoor life, and to man, the work of the outer world.While in French every word is either of the masculine or feminine ----, the language sometimes
- 152 EXAMPLES. ---- doth never prosper: whats 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 (pag
- 151 QUESTIONS. 1. What is it to _follow_? 2. How does _follow_ compare with _chase_ and _pursue_? 3. As regards succession in time, what is the difference between _follow_ and _ensue_? _result_? EXAMPLES. Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, ---- the tri
- 150 In a ---- panic, many a sound business house goes down for want of power to realize instantly on valuable securities.FINE (page 172).QUESTIONS.1. From what is _fine_ derived, and what is its original meaning? 2.How, from this primary meaning does _fine_ b
- 149 1. How are _female_ and _feminine_ discriminated? 2. What is the difference between a _female_ voice and a _feminine_ voice? 3. How are _womanly_ and _womanish_ discriminated in use?EXAMPLES.Notice, too, how precious are these ---- qualities in the sick r
- 148 QUESTIONS.1. What is _fanaticism_? _bigotry_? 2. What do _fanaticism_ and _bigotry_ commonly include? 3. What is _intolerance_? 4. What is the distinctive meaning of _superst.i.tion_? 5. What is _credulity_? Is it distinctively religious?EXAMPLES.---- is
- 147 QUESTIONS.1. What is the derivation, and what is the original meaning of _exterminate_? _eradicate_? _extirpate_? 2. To what are these words severally applied?EXAMPLES.Since the building of the Pacific railroads in the United States, the buffalo has been
- 146 More of the present woes of the world are due to ---- than to any other single cause. ---- of language often weakens the impression of what would be impressive in sober statement. EXECUTE (page 161). QUESTIONS. 1. What is the meaning of _execute_? of _adm
- 145 Men are the sport of ---- when The ---- seem the sport of men.Coming ---- cast their shadows before.Where an equal poise of hope and fear Does arbitrate the ----, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion.EVE
- 144 QUESTIONS.1. To what does _entrance_ refer? 2. What do _admittance_ and _admission_ add to the meaning of _entrance_? 3. To what does _admittance_ refer? To what additional matters does _admission_ refer?Ill.u.s.trate. 4. What is the figurative use of _en
- 143 ENEMY (page 151).QUESTIONS.1. What is an _enemy_? an _adversary_? 2. What distinction is there between the two words as to the purpose implied? 3. What is an _antagonist_? an _opponent_? a _compet.i.tor_? a _rival_? 4. How does _foe_ compare with _enemy_?
- 142 The church was then ready to ---- a pastor.What one has, one ought to ----: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.END, _v._ (page 148).QUESTIONS.1. What is it to _end_, and what reference does _end_ have to intention or expectation? 2. What
- 141 1. What is the distinctive meaning of _education_? _instruction_?_teaching_? 2. How is _instruction_ or _teaching_ related to _education_? 3. How does _training_ differ from _teaching_? 4. What is _discipline_? _tuition_? 5. What are _breeding_ and _nurtu
- 140 I ---- that man from the outset. DOUBT, _n._ (page 138). QUESTIONS. 1. To what cla.s.s of objects do we apply _disbelief_? _doubt_? _hesitation_? _misgiving_? 2. Which of these words most commonly implies an unfavorable meaning? 3. What meaning has _skept
- 139 ---- the upright man. Let us minutely ---- the color of the goods. DISCOVER (page 133). QUESTIONS. 1. What is the distinctive meaning of _detect_? _discover_? _invent_? 2. How do _discover_ and _invent_ differ? 3. Is _detect_ often used in a favorable sen
- 138 EXAMPLES. The architects ---- involved much detail. h.e.l.l is paved with good ----. It is the ---- of the voter that decides how his ballot shall be counted. The ---- of the Almighty can not be thwarted. The adaption of means to ends in nature clearly in
- 137 DECEPTION (page 123). QUESTIONS. 1. How is _deceit_ distinguished from _deception_? from _guile_? _fraud_? _lying_? _hypocrisy_? 2. Do all of these apply to conduct as well as to speech? 3. Is _deception_ ever innocent? 4. Have _craft_ and _cunning_ alway
- 136 QUESTIONS. 1. To what is _contagion_ now limited by the best medical usage? 2. To what is the term _infection_ applied? EXAMPLES. During the plague in London persons walked in the middle of the streets for fear of the ---- from the houses. The mob thinks
- 135 Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be ----; Do n.o.ble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make life, death, and the vast forever One grand, sweet song. COMPANY (page 110). QUESTIONS. 1. From what is _company_ derived? What is its primary mean
- 134 We often fail to recognize the actor who ---- his costume between the acts.CHARACTER (page 102).QUESTIONS.1. How do you distinguish between _character_ and _reputation_?_const.i.tution_ and _disposition_? 2. Is _nature_ a broader word than any of the prec
- 133 CARRY (page 96).QUESTIONS.1. To what sort of objects do we apply _bear_? _carry_? _move_? _take_?2. What kinds of force or power do we indicate by _convey_, _lift_, _transmit_, and _transport_? 3. What is the distinction between _bring_ and _carry_? betwe
- 132 I ---- my servant and he came.The captain ---- in a voice of thunder to the helmsman, "Put your helm hard aport!"CALM (page 91).QUESTIONS.1. To what cla.s.ses of objects or states of mind do we apply _calm_?_collected_? _quiet_? _placid_? _seren
- 131 QUESTIONS.1. In what sense are _bluff_, _frank_, and _open_ used? 2. In what sense are _blunt_, _brusk_, _rough_, and _rude_ employed?EXAMPLES.There are to whom my satire seems too ----.Stout once a month they march, a ---- band And ever but in times of n
- 130 In the ---- G.o.d created the heaven and the earth. BEHAVIOR (page 79). QUESTIONS. 1. How do _behavior_ and _conduct_ differ? 2. What is the special sense of _carriage_? of _bearing_? _demeanor_? 3. What is _manner_? _manners_? EXAMPLES. Our thoughts and
- 129 1. What is the meaning of _barbarian_? 2. What is the added significance of _barbaric_? 3. How does _barbarous_ in general use differ from both the above words? 4. What special element is commonly implied in _savage_? 5. In what less opprobrious sense may
- 128 QUESTIONS. 1. To what matters should _awful_ properly be restricted? 2. Is _awful_ always interchangeable with _alarming_ or _terrible_? with _disagreeable_ or _annoying_? EXAMPLES. Then must it be an ---- thing to die. The silent falling of the snow is t
- 127 ATt.i.tUDE (page 65).QUESTIONS.1. How does _position_ as regards the human body differ from _att.i.tude_, _posture_, or _pose_? 2. Do the three latter words apply to the living or the dead? 3. What is the distinctive sense of _att.i.tude_? Is it conscious
- 126 EXAMPLES. Wherefore do I ---- These royalties, and not refuse to reign. ---- a virtue if you have it not. For well we know no hand of blood and bone Can gripe the sacred handle of our scepter, Unless he do profane, steal, or ----. a.s.sURANCE (page 61). Q
- 125 1. To what kind of proceedings do _indict_ and _arraign_ apply? 2. How is one _indicted_? How _arraigned_? 3. How do these words differ from _charge_? _accuse_? _censure_?EXAMPLES.The criminal was ---- for trial for his offenses.Religion does not ---- or
- 124 EXAMPLES. It is not ---- that the students will attempt to break the rules again. It is not yet ---- what his motive could have been in committing such an offense. It is ---- that something has been omitted which was essential to complete the construction
- 123 The happy ---- of a renewed existence in company with the spirits of the just. ANTIPATHY (page 48). QUESTIONS. 1. How is _antipathy_ to be distinguished from _dislike_? from _antagonism_? from _aversion_? 2. What is _uncongeniality_? How does it differ fr
- 122 QUESTIONS.1. What are the especial characteristics of _anger_? How does it differ from _indignation_? _exasperation_? _rage_? _wrath_? _ire_?EXAMPLES.My enemy has long borne me a feeling of ----.Christ was filled with ---- at the hypocrisy of the Jews.I w
- 121 He was in Logic a great ---- Profoundly skill'd in a.n.a.lytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.The greatest works in poetry, painting, and sculpture have not been done by ----.The mere ---- who produces
- 120 The cruelty and envy of the people ---- by our dastard n.o.bles, who Have all forsook me, hath devoured the rest. State churches have ever been unwilling to ---- dissent. ALLUDE (page 36). QUESTIONS. 1. What is the distinctive sense of _allude_? of _adver
- 119 ALLEGE (page 31). QUESTIONS. 1. Which is the primary and which the secondary word, _allege_ or _adduce_? Why? 2. How much of certainty is implied in _allege_? 3. How much does one admit when he speaks of an _alleged_ fact, doc.u.ment, signature, or the li
- 118 AIRY (page 27).QUESTIONS.1. How does _airy_ agree with and differ from _aerial_? Give instances of the uses of the two words. 2. What does _ethereal_ signify?_sprightly_? 3. Are _lively_ and _animated_ used in the favorable or unfavorable sense?EXAMPLES.-
- 117 EXAMPLES. It is safer to ---- some people than to oblige them; for the better a man deserves, the worse they will speak of him. Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches ---- the brain. The petty desire to ---- is simply a pervers
- 116 ADEQUATE (page 21). QUESTIONS. 1. What do _adequate_, _commensurate_, and _sufficient_ alike signify? How does _commensurate_ specifically differ from the other two words? Give examples. 2. To what do _adapted_, _fit_, _suitable_, and _qualified_ refer? 3
- 115 He who does the truth will need no instruction as to individual ----s. ---- is the truth of thought. The ---- is done. ACTIVE (page 17). QUESTIONS. 1. With what two sets of words is _active_ allied? 2. How does _active_ differ from _busy_? from _industrio
- 114 ACCESSORY, _n._ (page 13).QUESTIONS.1. Which words of this group are used in a good, and which in a bad sense? 2. Which are indifferently either good or bad? 3. To what does _ally_ generally apply? _colleague_? 4. How does an _a.s.sociate_ compare in rank
- 113 QUESTIONS.1. When is a fluid said to be _absorbed_? 2. Is the substance of the _absorbing_ body changed by that which it _absorbs_? Give instances. 3.How does _consume_ differ from _absorb_? 4. Give instances of the distinctive uses of _engross_, _swallow
- 112 The law, which had long been ---- by the revolutionists, was at last ---- by the legislature.The ancient statute was found to have been ---- by later enactments, though never formally ----.The Supreme Court ---- the adverse decision of the inferior tribun
- 111 ABBREVIATION (page 4).QUESTIONS.1. Is an _abbreviation_ always a _contraction_? 2. Is a _contraction_ always an _abbreviation_? Give instances. 3. Can we have an _abbreviation_ of a book, paragraph, or sentence? What can be _abbreviated_? and what _abridg
- 110 Compare synonyms for OLD.SUGGESTIONS TO THE TEACHER.The following exercises have been prepared expressly and solely to accompany the preceding text in which the distinctions of synonyms have been carefully pointed out. It is not expected, intended, or des
- 109 Synonyms: deviate, diverge, go astray, range, rove, swerve, digress, err, ramble, roam, stray, veer.To _wander_ (AS. _windan_, wind) is to move in an indefinite or indeterminate way which may or may not be a departure from a prescribed way; to _deviate_ (
- 108 Aside from its technical ecclesiastical use, _venial_ is always understood as marking some fault comparatively _slight_ or _trivial_. A _venial_ offense is one readily overlooked; a _pardonable_ offense requires more serious consideration, but on delibera
- 107 Antonyms: disadvantage, futility, inadequacy, inutility, uselessness, folly, impolicy, inexpediency, unprofitableness, worthlessness.VACANT.Synonyms: blank, leisure, unfilled, untenanted, void, empty, unemployed, unoccupied, vacuous, waste.That is _empty_
- 106 footstep, memorial, sign, A _memorial_ is that which is intended or fitted to bring to remembrance something that has pa.s.sed away; it may be vast and stately. On the other hand, a slight _token_ of regard may be a cherished _memorial_ of a friend; eithe
- 105 Synonyms: affidavit, attestation, deposition, proof, affirmation, certification, evidence, witness._Testimony_, in legal as well as in common use, signifies the statements of witnesses. _Deposition_ and _affidavit_ denote _testimony_ reduced to writing; t
- 104 confusion, TACITURN.Synonyms: close, mute, reticent, speechless, dumb, reserved, silent, uncommunicative._Dumb_, _mute_, _silent_ and _speechless_ refer to fact or state; _taciturn_ refers to habit and disposition. The talkative person may be stricken _du
- 103 SUPERNATURAL.Synonyms: miraculous, preternatural, superhuman.The _supernatural_ (_super_, above) is above or superior to the recognized powers of nature; the _preternatural_ (_preter_, beyond) is aside from or beyond the recognized results or operations o
- 102 STUPIDITY.Synonyms: apathy, insensibility, slowness, stupefaction, dulness, obtuseness, sluggishness, stupor._Stupidity_ is sometimes loosely used for temporary _dulness_ or partial _stupor_, but chiefly for innate and chronic _dulness_ and _sluggishness_
- 101 SPONTANEOUS.Synonyms: automatic, impulsive, involuntary, voluntary, free, instinctive, unbidden, willing.That is _spontaneous_ which is freely done, with no external compulsion and, in human actions, without special premeditation or distinct determination
- 100 Synonyms: cant, colloquialism, vulgarism, vulgarity.A _colloquialism_ is an expression not coa.r.s.e or low, and perhaps not incorrect, but below the literary grade; educated persons are apt to allow themselves some _colloquialisms_ in familiar conversati
- 99 SIN.Synonyms: crime, fault, misdeed, vice, criminality, guilt, offense, viciousness, delinquency, ill-doing, transgression, wickedness, depravity, immorality, unG.o.dliness, wrong, evil, iniquity, unrighteousness, wrong-doing._Sin_ is any lack of holiness
- 98 _Sensation_ is the mind's consciousness due to a bodily affection, as of heat or cold; _perception_ is the cognition of some external object which is the cause or occasion of the _sensation_; the _sensation_ of heat may be connected with the _percept
- 97 check, disappoint, restrain, starve, straiten, deny, refuse, restrict, stint, tantalize.Prepositions: Satisfy _with_ food, _with_ gifts, etc.; satisfy one (in the sense of make satisfaction) _for_ labors and sacrifices; satisfy oneself _by_ or _upon_ inqu