ogmatic assertion; in the second place, it
contains copious examples from good authors, which should guide aright
the person investigating any word, if he is thoroughly conversant with
English."--_The Sun_, New York.

_STANDARD EDUCATIONAL SERIES_

ENGLISH SYNONYMS
AND ANTONYMS

WITH NOTES ON THE
CORRECT USE OF PREPOSITIONS

DESIGNED AS A COMPANION FOR THE STUDY
AND AS A
TEXT-BOOK FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS

BY

JAMES C. FERNALD, L.H.D.
_Editor of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Prepositions
in the Standard Dictionary_

_NINETEENTH EDITION_

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON

_Copyright, 1896, by FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY._

_Registered at Stationers' Hall, London, Eng._

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES

Transcriber's Note:

Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst
a list of significant amendments can be found at the end of the
text. Inconsistent hyphenation and conflicting variant spellings
have been standardised, except where used for emphasis. Non-standard
characters have been represented as follows:

[=a] _a_ with upper macron;
[=o] _o_ with upper macron.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

PREFACE vii

PART I.
SYNONYMS, ANTONYMS AND PREPOSITIONS 1

PART II.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 377

INDEX 509

PREFACE.

The English language is peculiarly rich in synonyms, as, with such a
history, it could not fail to be. From the time of Julius Caesar,
Britons, Romans, Northmen, Saxons, Danes, and Normans fighting,
fortifying, and settling upon the soil of England, with Scotch and Irish
contending for mastery or existence across the mountain border and the
Channel, and all fenced in together by the sea, could not but influence
each other's speech. English merchants, sailors, soldiers, and
travelers, trading, warring, and exploring in every clime, of necessity
brought back new terms of sea and shore, of shop and camp and
battlefield. English scholars have studied Greek and Latin for a
thousand years, and the languages of the Continent and of the Orie