The Scholar's Companion: Containing Exercises in the Orthography, Derivation, and Classification of English Words |
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accent agreeable ance ancient ancient Rome animal appearance artium magister Attic style Audi alteram partem belonging body Calabria called calm censure Cephalonia cheat cious color Compounded deceit denoting diphthong discerning discourse disease divine draw ence English words engravings exact feast Fête champêtre fixed French Geography give Greece Greek alphabet Greek words hinder incite insect insep instrument Julius Cæsar kind language Latin Latin word letter Literally living manner mark mean ment mind mode Mount Helicon Mount Parnassus native ness origin pain Peloponnesus person pertaining Phoenicia Pictorial History plant plural praise prefix pronounced pupil relating reproach resembling sacred Schools separate signifies sion sort sound speech style substance suffixes syllable taining thing tion utter vessel vowel weight WORDS DERIVED writing yield
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Page v - It is the first characteristic of a well-dressed man that his clothes fit him: they are not too small and shrunken here, too large and loose there. Now it is precisely such a prime characteristic of a good style that the words fit close to the thoughts...
Page 46 - Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, ending with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, double that consonant, when they take another syllable beginning with a vowel : as, wit, witty ; thin, thinnish ; to abet, an abettor ; to begin, a beginner.
Page 160 - TRADI'TION, that which is handed down from age to age by oral communication. TRAI'TOR, (Fr. traitre~), one who delivers his country to its enemy. 547. Tra'ho, (trac'tum), to draw. AB'STRACT, a. separate; existing in the mind only. ABSTRACT', v. to draw from ; to separate. ATTRACT', to draw to ; to allure. ATTRACTIVE, engaging. CONTRACT', to draw together. DETRACT', to take from the reputation or value of anything.
Page 217 - GOR'DIAN, a. intricate, difficult; from Gordius, a Phrygian husbandman, who, on being made king by the oracle of Apollo, tied the yoke of his chariot to the pole, in a knot so intricate, that no one could find out where it began or ended. It was pretended, that whoever should loose this knot should be king of all Asia. Alexander cut it with his sword.
Page 272 - OFFENCE — affront, insult, outrage, indignity ; misdeed, trespass, transgression, misdemeanour. To OFFEND — despise, vex. OFFENDER — delinquent, culprit. OFFENSIVE — rude, saucy, impertinent, insolent, abusive, reproachful, scurrilous, opprobrious, insulting, obnoxious. To OFFER — present, exhibit, bid, tender, propose. OFFERING — oblation, presentation. OFFICE — business, function, duty, charge ; benefit, service. OFFICIOUS — active, busy. OFFSPRING — issue, progeny. OFTEN —...
Page 261 - INBRED — unborn, inherent, innate. INCAPABLE. See INADEQUATE. INCESSANTLY — unremittingly, unceasingly, always, continually, perpetually. INCIDENT — circumstance, fact, event, occurrence, adventure ; accident, casualty, contingency. INCIDENTAL — accidental, casual, fortuitous, contingent. To INCITE — excite, provoke, stimulate, aggravate, move ; encourage, animate, urge. INCLINATION — disposition, tendency, bent, bias, prepossession, predilection, propensity, proneness ; affection, attachment....
Page 268 - MATERIAL, corporeal ; important, momentous. MATRIMONY, marriage, wedlock, nuptials. MATTER, affair, business, concern; material. MATURE, ripe, perfect, complete. MAXIM, adage, aphorism, apophthegm, proverb, saying. MAZE, labyrinth ; uncertainty, perplexity. MEAGRE, lean ; poor, hungry.. MEAN, low, abject, vulgar, vile, contemptible, despicable ; sordid, penurious, niggardly. To MEAN, design, purpose, intend, contemplate ; signify, imply, import, express, denote. MEANING, signification, import, sense....
Page 281 - ABLE, rational, just, honest, equitable, fair. Void of REASON, irrational, foolish, silly, unreasonable, absurd, preposterous, ridiculous. REBELLION, insurrection, sedition, revolt ; contumacy. To REBOUND, recoil, reverberate. To REBUFF, repel, reject, beat back, oppose. To REBUKE, reprimand, reprove, check, chide.
Page 230 - ATTENTION, heed, care; application, study. ATTENTIVE, careful, mindful. ATTITUDE, posture, gesture, action, gesticulation. To ATTRACT, draw, allure, entice. ATTRACTIONS, charms, allurements. To ATTRIBUTE, ascribe, impute. ATTRIBUTE, quality, property. AUDACITY, boldness, effrontery, hardihood. AUGMENTATION, accession, addition, increase. AUGUR, forebode, betoken, presage, portend. AUGUST, majestic, magisterial, dignified, stately, pompous. AUSPICIOUS, favorable, propitious.
Page 284 - RERTRIBUTION — requital, repayment. To RETRIEVE — recover, repair, recruit, regain. To RETROCEDE. See RETIRE. To RETROGRADE — go backward. See RETIRE. RETROSPECT — review, survey. To RETURN — revert ; restore, repay. To REVEAL — divulge, disclose, make known, communicate, open, impart. To REVENGE — avenge, vindicate. REVENGEFUL — vindictive, resentful. To REVERBERATE — rebound, recoil. To REVERE — reverence, adore, venerate. REVERENCE — awe, dread ; honour, respect. REVERIE...