Purdon's Vocabulary of Words Constantly Needed: With Illustrations of Their Proper UseHarr Wagner Publishing Company, 1923 - 295 páginas |
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... meaning of each word included in the collection which is the outcome of many years ' observation and study on the part of the author of this excellent book . Having myself been a teacher of English for more than half a century , I have ...
... meaning of each word included in the collection which is the outcome of many years ' observation and study on the part of the author of this excellent book . Having myself been a teacher of English for more than half a century , I have ...
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... meaning . The ambiguous nature of his speech rendered compre- hension difficult . Even these instructions are ambiguous . The remark seemed ambiguous . The title of the poem is ambiguous . ambiguity ( ăm - bi - gū ' - ĭ - ti ) , n . An ...
... meaning . The ambiguous nature of his speech rendered compre- hension difficult . Even these instructions are ambiguous . The remark seemed ambiguous . The title of the poem is ambiguous . ambiguity ( ăm - bi - gū ' - ĭ - ti ) , n . An ...
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... meanings ; equivocal . They failed to solve the amphibolous problem . amplify ( ăm ' - pli - fi ) , v . t . also i . To render larger or more in- tense ; to enlarge by adding illustrations or particulars . This has amplified our ...
... meanings ; equivocal . They failed to solve the amphibolous problem . amplify ( ăm ' - pli - fi ) , v . t . also i . To render larger or more in- tense ; to enlarge by adding illustrations or particulars . This has amplified our ...
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... meaning as apposite . We perceived the immediate appositeness . He was admired for beauty of language and appositeness of imagery . apprehension ( ǎp - rē - hen ' - shun ) , n . Act of apprehending ; mental grasp ; dread concerning the ...
... meaning as apposite . We perceived the immediate appositeness . He was admired for beauty of language and appositeness of imagery . apprehension ( ǎp - rē - hen ' - shun ) , n . Act of apprehending ; mental grasp ; dread concerning the ...
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... meaning in a certain relation to the subject . The idea is humorous in its connotations . The word has many interesting connotations . This could not be qualified by the connotation of the word " high - brow . " It has a more formal ...
... meaning in a certain relation to the subject . The idea is humorous in its connotations . The word has many interesting connotations . This could not be qualified by the connotation of the word " high - brow . " It has a more formal ...
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action adroit amusing ancient animals antinomian Appian artists atavism attitude attributed beatific beauty became become brummagem called capable caused character Characterized clever condition conduct connotes considered coruscation depilation deviation discourse doctrine duty effect euphuistic evanescent evidence evil ex cathedra existence expression facetious fallacious false feeling flowers force French give habit hence humor hypochondria idea incubus influence interest jujutsu knowledge lack language Latin LESSON ONE HUNDRED literary living manner meaning ment mental metonymy mind misanthropy moral motive nature Nirvana nutation object offense one's opinion passed peace period periphrasis person or thing Pertaining phrase pleasing pleasure pleonasm plural poem position relating remarks render replete result Rubáiyát rule seemed sense sentiment similar import sound speak speech spirit spoke statement story style sudorific sweet thought tion truth tumulus utter verse women Word of similar writing
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Página 295 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea ! " OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, The Chambered Nautilus.
Página 71 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Página 111 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 263 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ; and the only rational mode of judging of any educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Página 64 - ... has a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come...
Página 256 - It is very certain that it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love. If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.
Página 94 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 61 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Página 142 - The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Página 287 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.