4. The excited voice went [calling, crying, clamoring] along the staircase.
5. I was [tired, fatigued, exhausted] with traveling and want of rest.
6. I made a most [awkward, ridiculous, absurd, grotesque] appearance.
7. A man is sometimes more [generous, liberal, open-handed] when he has but a little money than when he has plenty.
8. Dost thou love life? Then do not [squander, waste, spend] time.
9. He [continued, admonished, warned, counseled, advised] me not to let so good an offer pass.
10. The eagle listens to every sound, [looking, gazing, glancing] now and then to the earth beneath.
Exercise 50.—Fill the blanks below with words from the following groups of synonyms:—
I. Large, colossal, great, big, commodious, huge, vast, capacious, immense, spacious, huge.
1. Joan of Arc rode at the head of a —— body of troops. 2. Our world itself is a very —— place. 3. If a —— giant could travel all over the universe and gather worlds, all as ---- as ours, and were to make first a heap of merely ten such worlds, how —— it would be. 4. I pushed aside the heavy leathern curtain at the entrance, and stood in the ---- nave. The —— cupola alone is sixty-five feet higher than the Bunker Hill Monument, and the four —— pillars on which it rests are each one hundred and thirty-seven feet in circumference. The awe I felt in looking up at the —— arch of marble and gold did not humble me. 5. The old lady drew a package of peppermints from her —— pocket. 6. He lived in a —— mansion with —— rooms.