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Timely aid is that which comes before it is too late; Seasonable aid, that which meets the nature of the occasion.

The difference is slight between these and Opportune, which seems to express more the occurrence of that which, by its timeliness, aids some particular project or specific course of things. Like Timely and unlike Seasonable, it qualifies a case rather than a class of cases. Things are opportune for the occasion, and not as a rule. The shower which falls seasonably and in timely preservation of a crop may be inopportune as regards a party of pleasure.

EXERCISE XLIII.

DIRECTION.—Give the meaning which the synonyms grouped below have in common; give the meaning which belongs to each separately; and write sentences, using each word correctly:

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8. Battle-combat-engagement. 24. Journey-tour-excursion

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12. Adorn-decorate-embellish. 28. Manifest-evident-plain

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33. Novel-new.

34. Abundance-plenty.

35. Pleasing-pleasant―agree

able.

36. Pillage-plunder.

38. Poison-venom.

39. Rest-repose.

40. Resign-relinquish.
41. Sensible-intelligent.
42. Gain-win.

37. Poverty-indigence-pauper-43. Slight-neglect.

ism.

44. Tall-high-lofty.

EXERCISE XLIV.

DIRECTION.-Supply precise words in the following sentences:

1. Hope-Expect. (a) Such was the violence of the storm that none of the passengers the vessel could outlive the gale.

(b) The father had

that his son would be eminent.

2. Lonely-Solitary. (a) It appeared to the misled and

traveler.

(b) Hie home unto my chamber, where thou shalt find me sad and

3. Ask-Beg-Request. (a) What shall you

deny?
(b) In

and modest.

(c)

of me that I'll

other inferior things it may become us to be reserved

him to accept the same as a testimony of their tender ness towards him.

4. Admit—Allow. (a) The ruined spendthrift claimed kindred there, and had his claim

(b) Even a real miracle can not be

as such by those who are not assured that the event is contradictory to the course of nature. 5. Excite Incite. (a) Can the sons of Greece in Achilles' mind?

compassion

(b) The concurrence of many circumstances, resembling those which had been so favorable to the late monarch,

similar attempt.

him to a

6. Poison-Venom. (a) As souls, they say, by our first touch take in the of original sin.

(b) The God of truth defend you and all others that maintain his truth from the

(c) The

of liars.

of asps is under their tongues.

7. Modern-Recent. (a) Yet was much taxed, by that age precise, times not strange have thought.

for faults which

(b) Amphitryon,

from the nether sphere.

8. Curious-Prying — Inquisitive. (a) Bacon says, some have been so as to remark the times and seasons, when the stroke

of an envious eye is most effectually pernicious.

(b) Man is read in his face, God in his creatures, but not as the philosopher, the creature of his glory, reads him, but as the divine, the servant of humility; yet he must take care not to be too

9. years.

(c) So close in poplar shades, her children gone,

The mother nightingale laments alone,
Whose nest some

Tedious-Irksome. (a) The

(b) It was perhaps less

churl has found.

length of nine revolving

to live the life of a hermit in a sol

itary den than to submit to the humors of a bigot.

10. Defend-Protect. (a) God

the right.

(b) How poor a thing is man, whom death itself can not

from injuries.

11. Glance-Glimpse. (a) The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.

doth

(b) In His face the

12. Persuade-Convince.

house is guilty of the sin he

of His Father's glory shine.

(a) He that

him to.

a man to rob a

them

(b) Wise men desire to discover such evident marks of superior wisdom, power, and goodness in the frame of it, as may that it is truly divine.

13. Timely-Seasonable-Opportune. (a) Mercy is

time of affliction.

in the

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15. Impostor-Deceiver. (a) If these things prove true, let me be

registered not only for a most notorious

as never trod upon the earth before.

but such an hypocrite

(6) Our Savior wrought his miracles frequently, and for a long time together; a time sufficient to have detected any

in.

16. Propose-Purpose. (a) The ship a helpless hull is left; she quits her

way.

(6) There are but two plans on which any man can

duct himself through the dangers and distresses of human life.

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17. Mutual — Reciprocal.

(a) But as He framed a whole, the whole to bless,

On

wants built

(b) Life can not subsist in society but by

happiness.

concessions.

18. Pillage-Plunder. (a) I took away from our men the with which they were loaded, and gave it to the owners.

(b) For the

to con

of malignants, I answer that I think the parlia

ment never yet approved the

any man by any of their forces.

-, or, in plain English, robbing of

19. Resolution-Determination—Decision. (a) Be it with then, to fight.

(b) The will is said to be

when, in consequence of some

action or influence, its choice is fixed upon a particular object. of dying to end our miseries does not show such a to bear them.

(c) The

degree of magnanimity, as a
20. Gratitude-Thankfulness. (a)

is the lively and power

ful reaction of a well-disposed mind upon whom benevolence has conferred something important.

(b) Give us that due sense of all Thy mercies, that our hearts may be unfeignedly

21. Difficulty-Obstacle—Impediment-Obstruction. were all night removing the

road.

(b) Was ever any

(a) They

that had been placed across the

overcome by a sudden cast of thought?

(c) The want of a life conformable to the religion which we profess,

hath been an

(d) Because an

to the progress of Christianity.

the pure clearness of light

by nature earthly and foul doth not receive

22. Exceed-Excel. (a) Man's boundless avarice

his neighbors round about him feeds.

and on

(b) The Power that shuts within its seed the future flower, bids these in elegance of form

23. Defamation-Calumny - Slander-Libel. (a) Their aim is

only men's

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not their reformation, since they proclaim men's vices unto others, not lay them open to themselves.

(b) Whether we speak evil of a man to his face or behind his back; the former way indeed seems to be the most generous, but yet is a great fault, and that which we call reviling. The latter is more mean and base, and that which we call

(c) "The way to silence

says Bias, "is to be always exer

cised in such things as are praiseworthy."

(d) We have in a -; (1) the writing; (2) the communication; (3) the application to persons and facts; (4) the intent and tendency; (5) the matter-diminution of fame.

24. Bashful-Modest-Diffident. (a) A man is so only in the presence of others.

(b) — is a kind of shame or bashfulness proceeding from the sense a man has of his own defects, compared with the perfections of him whom he comes before.

(c)

and presumption both arise from the want of knowing,

or rather endeavoring to know, ourselves.

25. Scheme-Plan-Design. (a) The vigor of a boundless imagination told him how a might be disposed that would embel

lish Nature and restore Art to its proper office.

(b) The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates by its construction, contrivance, and

(c) The idea of the possibility of multiplying paper money to almost any extent was the real foundation of what is called the Mississippi the most extravagant project, both of banking and

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stock-jobbing, that perhaps the world ever saw.

26. Linger-Lag-Saunter-Loiter. (a) We must proceed speedily, and persist constantly, nowhere staying or

(b) Yet not content, more to increase his shame, when so she

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as she needs mote so, he with his spear would thump her

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(d) Upon the first suspicion a father has that his son is of a temper, he must carefully observe him whether he be listless and indifferent in all his actions, or whether in some things he be slow and sluggish, but in others vigorous and eager.

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