How to Use Words-Exercises for Daily Practice-Methods of Combination-Studies in Selection-Thinking while SpeakingSuggestion-How to Acquire Forcible Style-Word PicturesTopics for Extemporaneous Speaking.

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E have thus far been studying the materials forming the foundations for extemporaneous speaking. We will now put them into service, uniting them into a solid base upon which to rest our system.

Word Lists.

From the words formed in the exercise in which you combined affixes with roots, form lists containing twenty words. Select in the second case twenty antonyms in order from your book on synonyms, or twenty important words from your dictionary. Words must be taken in order without regard for meanings or qualities. Write these words. Memorize the lists. You will, of course, remember the synonyms and meanings of selected words. It is well to prepare the lists to cover one week or a longer period. But the words selected for each day need not be memorized until

that day. A model series of lists for one week would be as follows:

I. Abandon.

Synonyms: Forsake, Desert, Relinquish.
Meaning: As in dictionary or book on

synonyms.

II. Abandoned.

Method of

Study.

Synonyms: Profligate, Reprobate, Unprincipled, Depraved.

Meaning: As in dictionary or book on synonyms.

WORD LIST I

ABACK, back, backward, rearward, regressively, to the rear.

ABAFT, aft, astern, behind, back, rearward, in the

rear.

ABALIENATION, alienation, transfer, demise, con

veyance.

ABANDON, leave, relinquish, quit, forsake, desert, evacuate, drop, abjure, forswear, give over, cast off, retire from, withdraw from.

ABANDONED, relinquished, deserted, forsaken, cast away, rejected, discarded, given up, given over, cast off, cast aside, thrown overboard, demitted.

ABANDONMENT, abandoning, relinquishment, desertion, derelection.

ABASE, depress, detrude, lower, reduce, drop, sink, stoop, cast down, let down, throw down, let fall. ABASEMENT, depression, detrusion, reduction, low

ering, fall, deterioration, degradation, debase

ment, degeneracy, degeneration, vitiation, perversion, depravation.

ABASH, shame, mortify, confuse, confound, disconcert, discompose, cow, humiliate, humble, snub, put to shame, make ashamed, put down, put out of countenance, take down, send away with a flea in one's ear.

ABASHMENT, confusion, shame, mortification, embarrassment.

ABATE, lessen, diminish, decrease, reduce, lower, relax, slacken. ABATEMENT, diminution, decrease, decrement, lessening, mitigation, assuagement, extenuation, remission, moderation.

ABATTOIR, slaughter-house, slaughter-pen, shambles. ABBEY, monastery, convent, cloister, priory, nunnery.

ABBREVIATE, shorten, curtail, reduce, contract, retrench, condense, compress, epitomize, cut short, cut down. ABBREVIATION, shortening, curtailment, contraction, reduction, condensation, compression, brief, compend, compendium, abstract, epitome. ABDICATE, resign, surrender, cede, forego, renounce, relinquish, abandon, quit, vacate, give up, part with, lay down, renounce all claim to.

ABDICATION, abdicating, resignation, surrender, renunciation, abandonment.

ABDUCTION, withdrawing, withdrawal, drawing away, withdrawment.

ABERRATION, wandering, rambling, diverging, erratic, out of the right way.

WORD LIST II

BABBLE, prattle, jabber, chatter, gibber, talk inarticulately.

BABE, infant, baby, nursling, little one.

BABEL, confusion, disorder, tumult, din, discord, jargon, clamor, hubbub, hurly-burly.

BACCHANAL, reveller, carouser, bacchanalian, roysterer, debauchee, bacchant.

BACKWARD, unwilling, reluctant, loath, disinclined, indisposed, wavering, hesitating.

BAD, evil, ill, baneful, baleful, deleterious, permischievous, noxious, hurtful, in

nicious,

jurious, detrimental, unwholesome.

BADGE, token of office, shield of office, official star or emblem.

BAGGAGE, luggage, personal effects, travelling effects,

traps.

BALANCE, pair of scales, equipoise, equality of weight.

BALD, without hair, hairless, destitute of hair.
BALDRIC, shoulder-belt, bawdrick.

BALL, globe, sphere, round body, round or rounded

or roundish part.

BALLAST, weight, ballasting, filling, packing.

BALM, ointment, fragrant or precious ointment, unguent.

BAN, proclamation, edict.

BAND, cord, chain, fetter, manacle, shackle, bond. BANDIT, outlaw, robber, brigand, freebooter, footpad, highwayman, marauder.

BANG, beat, thump, pound, strike, knock, maul,

pommel, thrash, cudgel, handle roughly, deal roughly with.

BANK, mound, knoll, rising ground, heap, pile, tumulus, dike.

BANNER, flag, standard, streamer, ensign, pennon,

colors.

WORD LIST III

CABAL, clique (for some sinister purpose), junto, coterie, set, party, gang, faction, combination, league, confederacy, camarilla.

CABIN, hut, hovel, shed, cot, cottage, humble dwell

ing.

CADENCE, tone, intonation, modulation of the voice.

CAITIFF, villain, wretch, miscreant, coward, sneak, traitor, knave, rascal, scoundrel, mean fellow, vagabond, bezonian.

CAJOLERY, deceit, deception, imposture, imposition. CALAMITY, disaster, misfortune, catastrophe, mis

hap, mischance, reverse, visitation, trial, blow, stroke, trouble, affliction, adversity.

CALCULATION, expectation, anticipation, contemplation, prospect.

CALL, cry, outcry, voice.

CALM, still, compose, hush, smooth, allay, lull, becalm, tranquillize.

CANAILLE, populace, rabble, mob, the vulgar, the crowd, vulgar herd, low people, lowest class of people.

CANDIDATE, aspirant, solicitant.

CANDOR, fairness, impartiality, justness, freedom from prejudice, freedom from bias.