MAKE ( page 236 ).
Questions.
1. What is the essential idea of make? 2. How is make allied with create? 3. How is make allied with compose or constitute? 4. What are some chief antonyms for make? 5. What are the prepositions chiefly used with make, and how employed?
Examples.
In the beginning God —— the heaven and the earth.
The mason ——, the architect ——.
I assert confidently that it is in the power of one American mother to —— as many gentlemen as she has sons.
Newton discovered, but did not —— the law of gravitation.
The river flows over a bed of pebbles like those that —— the beach and the surrounding plains.
A hermit and a wolf or two
My whole acquaintance ——.
If we were not willing, they possessed the power of —— us to do them justice.
The lessons of adversity sometimes soften and ——, but as often they indurate and pervert.