English Synonyms and Antonyms

Synopsis

English Synonyms and Antonyms is a Practical and Invaluable Guide to Clear and Precise Diction for Writers, Speakers, Students, Business and Professional Men to use the rich in synonymous English language. The English language is peculiarly rich in synonyms, as, with such a history, it could not fail to be. From the time of Julius Cæsar, 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.

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