A First Book in Writing English

by Edwin Herbert Lewis

Each of these words contains the idea to take. In what sense may this be said?

Access, accession.

1. Access to the director is easy.

2. The library has received an accession of books.

3. She was seized with an access of grief.

4. The Tsar celebrated his accession to the throne.

Each of these words contains the idea of entrance. Access means the entrance of a person into a room or into the presence of another; also the entrance of a flood of emotion into the mind. Accession means the entrance of a person into the rights of a position; also the entrance of books or other objects to a collection,—an addition to the collection.

Act, action.

1. Character is developed by action.