Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated Synonyms with Antonyms and Analogous and Contrasted WordsMerriam-Webster, 1984 - 940 էջ Good communication starts with choosing the right word--not always an easy task when the choise is between words of closely related meaning. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms makes the task easier by providing full discussions of synonymous terms and by describing the subtle distinctions that make one word more appropriate than another in a particular context. |
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... question puzzles a man , and a variety of choice perplexes him : one is confounded by a loud and sudden dissonance of sounds or voices in a still night ; embarrassed by a weight of clothes or valuables , if making escape from fire ...
... question puzzles a man , and a variety of choice perplexes him : one is confounded by a loud and sudden dissonance of sounds or voices in a still night ; embarrassed by a weight of clothes or valuables , if making escape from fire ...
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... question or prob- lem needing determination and perplex a variety of choices ) . The danger of her work is not in the falsity of the example , for it is usually true or just , but in its inadequacy in suggesting other instances of good ...
... question or prob- lem needing determination and perplex a variety of choices ) . The danger of her work is not in the falsity of the example , for it is usually true or just , but in its inadequacy in suggesting other instances of good ...
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... question is , not what ought to be , or formerly was , the meaning of a word , but what it now is ; nor can we be completely guided by quotations from Shakespeare or Milton , or even from Addison or Johnson . Language has under- gone ...
... question is , not what ought to be , or formerly was , the meaning of a word , but what it now is ; nor can we be completely guided by quotations from Shakespeare or Milton , or even from Addison or Johnson . Language has under- gone ...
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... question that he thought word - finding lists of synonyms and of " apparently synonymous " terms would be too meager to suit the purposes he had in mind . As for the discrimination of synonyms , that was entirely foreign to the purpose ...
... question that he thought word - finding lists of synonyms and of " apparently synonymous " terms would be too meager to suit the purposes he had in mind . As for the discrimination of synonyms , that was entirely foreign to the purpose ...
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... question of adequacy may never arise . Harmony in its musical sense may be related to accord , concord , consonance , in its aesthetic sense to symmetry and other terms not in this list ; but what relation there is between it and amity ...
... question of adequacy may never arise . Harmony in its musical sense may be related to accord , concord , consonance , in its aesthetic sense to symmetry and other terms not in this list ; but what relation there is between it and amity ...
Common terms and phrases
action active actual agitation animals antonym applied chiefly artist association attack autarky basic beauty body carries cation cause character close synonyms color common commonly comparable when meaning condition confusion connotes corre corresponding adjectives corresponding nouns corresponding verbs coruscate critical debase definite deliquesce denote designate desire Dictionary DISCOMPOSE discriminated distinction distinguished divergent effect Eliot emotional epicene especially expression extended faith favor fear feeling force formal frequently give hermaphrodite honor human idea intent interchangeable involved lack less light living Macaulay maladroit ment mental mind moral nature ness object offensive one's oneself onyms opposed opposite passion person or thing phrase physical political reference regarded relation result Rose Macaulay sangfroid sense skill sometimes specifically speech spirit sponding adjectives sponding verbs stresses T. S. Eliot term thought tion tive truth usually implies usually suggests words
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Էջ 31 - What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Էջ 315 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Էջ 266 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their...
Էջ 159 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Էջ 317 - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Էջ 144 - And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...
Էջ 236 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Էջ 255 - Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
Էջ 296 - There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity.
Էջ 208 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...