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"The Century Vocabulary Builder"


You have a good _repute_ for gentleness and wisdom.
_Celebrity_ sells dearly what we think she gives.
Kings climb to _eminence_
Over men's graves.
_Notoriety_ is short-lived; _fame_ is lasting.

malice, malevolence, malignity, rancor, resentment, dudgeon, grudge,
spite>.
The _hatred_ we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than
our own.
_Hate_ is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.
He generously forgot all feeling of _animosity_, and determined to go
in person to his succor.
That thereby he may gather
The ground of your _ill-will_, and so remove it.
No place is so propitious to the formation either of close friendships or
of deadly _enmities_ as an Indiaman.
There need be no _hostility_ between evolutionist and theologian.
Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks,
His fits, his frenzy, and his _bitterness?_
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in _malice_.
Every obstacle which partisan _malevolence_ could create he has had
to encounter.
His flight is occasioned rather by the _malignity_ of his countrymen
than by the enmity of the Egyptians.


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