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English Synonyms and Antonyms

by James Champlin Fernald

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FEUD ( page 170 ).

Questions.

1. What is a feud? Of what is it used? 2. Is a quarrel in word or act? contention? strife? contest? 3. How does quarrel compare in importance with the other words cited? 4. What does an affray always involve? To what may a brawl or broil be confined? 5. How do these words compare in dignity with contention, contest, controversy, and dissension?

Examples.

Could we forbear —— and practise love
We should agree as angels do above.

"Between my house and yours," he answered,
"There is a —— of five hundred years."

Beware of entrance to a ——.

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