7. Cultivate the society of those who use good language.
Exercise 86
Look up the meaning of each of the words in the following groups of synonyms. Construct sentences in which each word is used correctly:
- Love, like.
- Wit, humor.
- Discover, invent.
- Observe, watch.
- Pride, vanity, conceit.
- Proof, evidence, testimony.
- Balance, rest, remainder.
- Word, term, expression.
- Bring, fetch, carry.
- Abandon, desert, forsake.
- Propose, purpose, intend.
- Healthful, healthy, wholesome.
- Student, pupil, scholar.
- Capacity, power, ability.
- Blame, censure, criticism.
- Accede, agree, yield, acquiesce.
- Trickery, cunning, chicane, fraud.
- Instruction, education, training, tuition.
- Hardship, obstacle, hindrance, difficulty.
- Maxim, precept, rule, law
- Multitude, crowd, throng, swarm.
- Delight, happiness, pleasure, joy.
- Work, labor, toil, drudgery, task.
- Silent, mute, dumb, speechless.
- Kill, murder, assassinate, slay.
- Hatred, enmity, dislike, ill-will.
- Example, pattern, sample, model.
- Obvious, plain, clear, apparent.
- Noted, eminent, famous, prominent, notorious.
- Old, aged, antique, ancient, antiquated, obsolete.
Spelling
198. The following is a list of words that are frequently misspelled or confused. Where possible, an effort has been made to arrange them in groups in order that they may be more easily remembered. The word with an added ending has been used in most cases in place of the bare word itself as, occasional instead of occasion. A few rules have been included.
199. Words ending in a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, if monosyllables, or if the last syllable is accented, double the final consonant before the ending -ed and -ing, but not before -ence; as,
| rob, robbed, robbing, robbers. |
| confer, conferred, conferring, conference. |
| transmit, transmitted, transmitting, transmission. |
| impel, impelled, impelling, impulsion. |
Similar to the above are.