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    JD OM DOUBLE DUTY WORDS

    RICHARD LEDERER
    Concord, New Hampshire

    .ongest Eng­ The vocabulary of English contains anywhere from three-quarters


    N'ord therein of a million to one million words - by far the largest in the his­
    inadvertent tory of humankind. Despite this impressive accomplishment, many
    ). Professor words in English have to do double duty and convey more than
    tch example one meani ng. As a result, one word can function as the opposite
    ); however, of two very different words.
    perchance, To see this process at work, try the following quiz. Fill in each
    blank with a word that is opposite in meaning to the word in the
    ~r ad naus­ left-hand column and the different word in the right-hand column.
    ng humdrum The'n check your responses against those that appear in Answers
    1 with bold­ and Solutions. Example: light is the opposite of heavy and of dark.
    1. loud hard
    astefulness, 2. young new
    Similari ties 3. wrong left
    n prefixing 4. tall long
    10wn above? 5. smooth gentle
    ,; are their 6. even norma I
    nust always 7. sharp interesting
    8. costly enslaved
    9. bring give
    I, free from 10. rich exce llent
    11. win find
    12. soft easy
    13. past absent
    14. foul dark
    15. stop come
    16. sharp bumpy
    17. spend imperil
    18. good healthy
    19. thick fat
    20. major adult
    21. common well done
    22. coarse sick
    23. loose slow
    24. stale polite
    25. unbiased complete
    26. front forth
    27. sane happy
    28. rise spring

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