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English Synonyms and Antonyms

by James Champlin Fernald

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Chagrin ( page 100 ).

Questions.

1. What feelings are combined in chagrin? 2. How do you distinguish between chagrin, disappointment, humiliation, mortification, and shame? 3. Which involves a sense of having done wrong?

Examples.

The king's —— at the limitations imposed upon him was painfully manifest.

He is not wholly lost who yet can blush from ——.

Hope tells a flattering tale,
Delusive, vain, and hollow.
Ah! let not hope prevail,
Lest —— follow.

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