English Synonyms and Antonyms

Description

In its full title: English Synonyms and Antonyms – A Practical and Invaluable Guide to Clear and Precise Diction for Writers, Speakers, Students, Business and Professional Men – Connectives of English Speech. Synonyms are generally understood terms that match or closely match in various parts of their implication, and might therefore within some restrictions be used reciprocally, while outside of those restrictions they might vary much significantly in definition and use. It is the function of a work on synonyms to indicate these similarities and dissimilarities, that language might have the litheness that comes from openness of miscellany within the restrictions, with the fluency and accuracy that result from precise selection of the most suitable words to articulate every tinge of implication outside of the restrictions.

The guide book consists of: Part I. Synonyms, Antonyms and Prepositions; and Part II. Questions and Answers.

The English language is massively plentiful in synonyms, as, with such a record, it could not be unsuccessful. From the ancient times of Julius Cæsar, Britons, Romans, Northmen, Saxons, Danes, and Normans battling, enriching, and living in the land of England, with Scotch and Irish fighting for prowess or survival in the borders of the mountain and the Channel, and all encompassed in as one by the waters, could not but guide one another’s verbal communication. English traders, mariners, soldiers, and nomads, merchandising, combating, and traversing in all seasons, of stipulation took back up to date words of sea and shore, of shop and camp and battlefield. English scholastics have learned Greek and Latin for centuries, and the vernaculars of the Continent and of the Orient in more present years. English churchmen have presented terms from Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, by the Bible and prayer-book, homily and treatise.
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