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English Synonyms and Antonyms

by James Champlin Fernald

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AIM ( page 26 ).

Questions.

1. What is an aim? How does it differ from mark? from goal? 2. How do end and object compare? 3. To what does aspiration apply? How does it differ in general from design, endeavor, or purpose? 4. How does purpose compare with intention? 5. What is design?

Examples.

In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
For miserable —— that end with self.

O yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final —— of ill.

How quickly nature falls into revolt,
When gold becomes her ——.

It is not ——, but ambition that is the mother of misery in man.

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