Part 109 (1/2)

Synonye, rove, swerve, digress, err, ramble, roam, stray, veer

To _wander_ (AS _windan_, wind) is to move in an indefinite or indeterminate hich may or may not be a departure from a prescribed way; to _deviate_ (L _de_, froht way, physically, mentally, or e_ (L _di_, apart, and _vergo_, incline, tend) is to turn fro else follows, and has no unfavorable iradior_, step) is used only with reference to speaking or writing; to _err_ is used of intellectual or moral action, and of the moral with pri viewed as in soe_, _roa of considerable, often of vast, distances of land or sea; _range_ coe_ for food; a hunting-dog _ranges_ a field for game _Roam_ and _rove_ are often purposeless, and alithout definite aim To _swerve_ or _veer_ is to turn suddenly from a prescribed or previous course, and often but momentarily; _veer_ is more capricious and repetitious; the horse _swerves_ at the flash of a sword; the wind _veers_; the shi+p _veers_ with the wind To _stray_ is to go in a soular path or usual limits or abode, usually with unfavorable implication; cattle _stray_ from their pastures; an author _strays_ from his subject; one _strays_ frohter word than _wander_ _Raestion, but in its figurative use always so_ talk

WAY

Synonyms:

alley, course, lane, path, route, avenue, driveway, pass, pathway, street, bridle-path, highroad, passage, road, thoroughfare, channel, highway, passageway, roadway, track

Wherever there is room for one object to pass another there is a _way_

A _road_ (originally a ride_way_) is a prepared _way_ for traveling with horses or vehicles, always the latter unless the contrary is expressly stated; a _way_ suitable to be traversed only by foot-passengers or by animals is called a _path_, _bridle-path_, or _track_; as, the _roads_ in that country are hway_ or _highroad_ is public, _highway_ being a specific naally set apart for the use of the public forever; a _highway_ may be over water as well as over land A _route_ is a line of travel, and may be over many _roads_ A _street_ is in soe; when it passes between rows of dwellings the country _road_ beco, broad, and inification; we speak of a goat-_track_ on a mountain-side, a railroad-_track_, a race-_track_, the _track_ of a co of hoofs and wheels in either direction is called the _track_ A _passage_ is between any two objects or lines of enclosure, a _pass_ corounds, as of a private residence A _channel_ is a water_way_ A _thoroughfare_ is a _way_ through; a _road_ or _street_ temporarily or permanently closed at any point ceases for such tihfare_ Compare AIR; DIRECTION

WISDOM

Synonyment, reason, discerne, sagacity, enlightenht, profundity, understanding

inforhten_, and _skill_ are acquired, as by study or practise _Insight_, _judgacity_, _sense_, and _understanding_ are native qualities of mind, tho capable of increase by cultivation The other qualities are on the border-line _Wisdoe_,” or ”the use of thethe best ends,” _wisdoe_ for its very existence and exercise _Wisdo upon the ives in the most effective way There may be what is termed ”practical _wisdom_”

that looks only to material results; but in its full sense, _wisdohest and noblest exercise of all the faculties of the moral nature as well as of the intellect _Prudence_ is a lower andoutward and practicalloss and injury; _wisdom_ transcends _prudence_, so that while the part of _prudence_ is ordinarily also that of _wisdoencies of business or of hen the highest _wisdo decisions, especially correct decisions, is broader andone to do, as readily as to refrain froe and less exalted in character than _wisdoment_ is much less than to say that he manifested _wisdoely in the practical application of acquired _knowledge_, power, and habitual processes, or in the ingenious contrivance thatperfectly useless there reat _skill_, but no _wisdom_

Compare AcumEN; ASTUTE; KNOWLEDGE; MIND; PRUDENCE; SAGACIOUS; SKILFUL

Antonyms:

absurdity, folly, imbecility, miscalculation, senselessness, error, foolishness, iment, silliness, fatuity, idiocy, indiscretion, nonsense, stupidity

Compare synonyms for ABSURD; IDIOCY

WIT

Synonyery, burlesque, huishness, drollery, jest, pleasantry, witticism

facetiousness, jocularity, raillery,