A Practical and Invaluable Guide to Clear and Precise Diction
for Writers, Speakers, Students, Business and Professional Men.
is one of the most common of errors, and one of the most
difficult to avoid, while their right use gives to style
cohesion, firmness, and compactness, and is an important aid to
perspicuity. To the text of the synonyms is appended a set of
Questions and Examples to adapt the work for use as a text-book.
Aside from the purposes of the class-room, this portion will be
found of value to the individual student. Excepting those who
have made a thorough study of language most persons will
discover with surprise how difficult it is to answer any set of
the Questions or to fill the blanks in the Examples without
referring to the synonym treatment in Part I., or to a
dictionary, and how rarely they can give any intelligent reason
for preference even among familiar words. There are few who can
study such a work without finding occasion to correct some
errors into which they have unconsciously fa