Adv. affirmatively &c adj.; in the affirmative. with emphasis, ex-cathedra, witho ut fear of contradiction.

as God is my witness, I must say, indeed, i' faith, le t me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you t o know; upon my word, upon my honor; by my troth, egad, I assure you; by jingo, by Jove, by George, &c.; troth, seriously, sadly; in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest; of a truth, truly, perdy[obs3], in all conscience, upon oa th; be assured &c (belief) 484; yes &c (assent) 488; I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll engage, I'll answer for it, I'll be bound, I'll venture to say, I'll t ake my oath; in fact, forsooth, joking apart; so help me God; not to mince the m atter. Phr. quoth he; dixi[Lat]. #536. Negation. N. negation, abnegation; denial; disavowal, disclaimer; abjurati on; contradiction, contravention; recusation[obs3][Law], protest; recusancy &c ( dissent) 489; flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, demen ti[Lat]. qualification &c 469; repudiation &c 610; retraction &c 607; confutatio n &c 479; refusal &c 764; prohibition &c 761. V. deny; contradict, contravene; c ontrovert, give denial to, gainsay, negative, shake the head. disown, disaffirm, disclaim, disavow; recant &c 607; revoke &c (abrogate) 756. dispute; impugn, tr averse, rebut, join issue upon; bring in question, call in question &c. (doubt) 485; give (one) the lie in his throat. deny flatly, deny peremptorily, deny emph atically, deny absolutely, deny wholly, deny entirely; give the lie to, belie. r epudiate &c 610; set aside, ignore &c 460; rebut &c. (confute) 479; qualify &c 4 69; refuse &c 764. recuse[Law]. Adj. denying &c.v.; denied &c.v.; contradictory; negative, negatory; recusant &c (dissenting) 489; at issue upon. Adv. no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at all, nohow, not in the lea st, not so; negative, negatory; no way [coll.]; no such thing; nothing of the ki nd, nothing of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire[Fr], far from it; tant s'en faut[Fr]; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively. [negative with respect to time] never, never in a million years; at no time. Phr. there never was a greater mistake; I know better; non haec in fae dera[Lat]; a thousand times no. < p. 163 > #537. Teaching. N. teaching &c.v.; instruction; edification; education; tuition; tutorage, tutelage; direction, guidance; opsimathy[obs3]. qualification, prepara tion; training, schooling &c. v.; discipline; excitation. drill, practice; book exercise. persuasion, proselytism, propagandism[obs3], propaganda; indoctrinatio n, inculcation, inoculation; advise &c. 695. explanation &c (interpretation) 522 ; lesson, lecture, sermon; apologue[obs3], parable; discourse, prolection[obs3], preachment; chalk talk; Chautauqua [U.S.]. exercise, task; curriculum; course, course of study; grammar, three R's, initiation, A.B.C. &c (beginning) 66. eleme ntary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, co llege education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational edu cation, moral education, secular education; propaedeutics[obs3], moral tuition. gymnastics, calisthenics; physical drill, physical education; sloyd[obs3]. [meth ods of teaching] phonics; rote, rote memorization, brute memory; cooperative lea rning; Montessori method, ungraded classes. [measuring degree of learning of pup ils] test, examination, exam; final exam, mid-term exam grade[result of measurem ent of learning], score, marks; A,B,C,D,E,F; gentleman's C; pass, fail, incomple te. homework; take-home lesson; exercise for the student; theme, project. V. tea ch, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach; enlighten &c (i nform) 527. inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft[ obs3], infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds of, dissemin ate. given an idea of; put up to, put in the way of; set right. sharpen the wits , enlarge the mind; give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, "teach the you ng idea how to shoot" [Thomson]; improve &c. 658. expound &c (interpret) 522; le cture; read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a disco urse; incept[obs3]; hold forth, preach; sermonize, moralize; point a moral. trai

n, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare, qualify; drill, exe rcise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse[obs3], breed, re ar, take in hand; break, break in; tame; preinstruct[obs3]; initiate; inure &c ( habituate) 613. put to nurse, send to school. direct, guide; direct attention to &c. (attention) 457; impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory; beat into, beat into the head; convince &c (belief) 484. [instructional materials] book, w orkbook, exercise book. [unnecessary teaching] preach to the wise, teach one's g randmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs; preach to the converted. Adj . teaching &c.v; taught &c.v.; educational; scholastic, academic, doctrinal; dis ciplinal[obs3]; instructive, instructional, didactic; propaedeutic[obs3], propae deutical[obs3]. Phr. the schoolmaster abroad; a bovi majori disscit arare minor[ Lat]; adeo in teneris consuecere multum est [Lat][Vergil]; docendo discimus[Lat] ; quaenocent docent[Lat]; qui docet discit[Latin]; "sermons in stones and good i n everything" [As You Like It]. #538. Misteaching. N. misteaching[obs3], misinformaton, misintelligence[obs3], misguidance, misdirection, mispersuasion[obs3], misinstruction[obs3], misleading &c.v.; perversion, false teaching; sophistry &c 477; college of Laputa; the blind leading the blind. [misteaching by government agents] propaganda, disinformation, agitprop; indoctrination. V. misinform, misteach[obs3], misdescribe[obs3], misinstruct[obs3], miscorrect[obs3]; misdirect, misguide; pervert; put on a false scent, throw off the scent, throw off the trail; deceive &c 545; mislead &c (error) 495; misrepresent; lie &c 544; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat][Vergil]. propagandize, disinform. render unintelligible &c 519; bewilder &c (uncertainty) 475; mystify &c. (conceal) 528; unteach. [person or government agent who misteaches] propagandist. Adj. misteaching &c.v[obs3]; unedifying. Phr. piscem natare doces [Lat]; the blind leading the blind. < p. 164 > #539. Learning N. learning; acquisition of knowledge &c 490, acquisition of skil l &c 698; acquirement, attainment; edification, scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information; self- instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry &c 451. apprenticeship, prenticeship[obs3]; pupilage, pupilarity[obs3]; tutelage, novitiate, matriculation. docility &c (willingness) 602; aptitude &c 6 98. V. learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in know ledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge , get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean inf ormation, glean learning. acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, le arn by rote. read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through; dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves. study; b e studious &c adj. [study intensely] burn the midnight oil, consume the midnight oil, mind one's book; cram. go to school, go to college, go to the university; matriculate; serve an (or one's) apprenticeship, serve one's time; learn one's t rade; be informed &c 527; be taught &c 537. [stop going to school voluntarily (i ntransitive)] drop out, leave school, quit school; graduate; transfer; take a le ave. [cause to stop going to school (transitive)] dismiss, expel, kick out of sc hool. [stop going to school involuntarily] flunk out; be dismissed &c. Adj. stud ious; scholastic, scholarly; teachable; docile &c (willing) 602; apt &c 698, ind ustrious &c 682. Adv. at one's books; in statu pupillari &c (learner) 541[Lat]. Phr. "a lumber-house of books in every head" [Pope]; ancora imparo[Lat][obs3]! " hold high converse with the mighty dead" [Thomson]; "lash'd into Latin by the ti ngling rod" [Gay].

#540. Teacher. N. teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don; governor, bear leader; governess, duenna[Sp]; disciplinarian. professor, lecturer, reader, prelector[obs3], prolocutor, preacher; chalk talker, khoja[obs3]; pastor &c (clergy) 996; schoolmaster, dominie[Fr], usher, pedagogue, abecedarian; schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher. expositor &c 524; preceptor, guide; guru; mentor &c (adviser) 695; pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi[obs3], example &c (model for imitation) 22. professorship &c (school) 542. tutelage &c (teaching) 537. Adj. professorial. Phr. qui doet discet[Lat]. #541. Learner. N. learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice, prentice[obs3], journeyman; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, amateur, rank amateur; abecedarian, alphabetarian[obs3]; alumnus, eleve[Fr]. recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor[obs3], catechumen, probationer; seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner; debutant. [apprentice medical doctors] intern; resident. schoolboy; fresh, freshman, frosh; junior soph[obs3], junior; senior soph[obs3], senior; sophister[obs3], sophomore; questionist[obs3]. [college and university students] undergraduate; graduate student; law student; medical student; pre-med; post-doctoral student, post-doc; matriculated student; part-time student, night student, auditor. [group of learners] class, grade, seminar, form, remove; pupilage &c (learning) 539. disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte; fellow-student, condisciple[obs3]. [place of learning] school &c. 542. V. learn; practise. Adj. in statu pupillari[Lat], in leading strings. Phr. practise makes perfect. #542. School. N. school, academy, university, alma mater, college, seminary, Lyce um; institute, institution; palaestra, Gymnasium, class, seminar. day school, bo arding school, preparatory school, primary school, infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board school, denominational school, Natio nal school, British and Foreign school, collegiate school, art school, continuat ion school, convent school, County Council school, government school, grant-in-a id school, high school, higher grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary sc hool, school; school of art; kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory. pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo[obs3], lecture room, theater, audito rium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform, hustings, tribune. school b ook, horn book, text book; grammar, primer, abecedary[obs3], rudiments, manual, vade mecum; encyclopedia, cyclopedia; Lindley Murray, Cocker; dictionary, lexico n. professorship, lectureship, readership, fellowship, tutorship; chair. School Board Council of Education; Board of Education; Board of Studies, Prefect of Stu dies; Textbook Committee; propaganda. Adj. scholastic, academic, collegiate; edu cational. Adv. ex cathedra[Lat]. < p. 165 > #543. Veracity. N. veracity; truthfulness, frankness, &c. adj.; truth, sincerity, candor, unreserve|!, honesty, fidelity; plain dealing, bona fides[Lat]; love of truth; probity &c. 939; ingenuousness &c (artlessness) 703. the truth the whole

truth and nothing but the truth; honest truth, sober truth &c (fact) 494; unvar nished tale; light of truth. V. speak the truth, tell the truth; speak by the ca rd; paint in its true colors, show oneself in one's true colors; make a clean br east &c (disclose) 529; speak one's mind &c. (be blunt) 703; not lie &c 544, not deceive &c. 545. Adj. truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous &c (hono rable) 939; sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open hear ted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy; undissembling &c (dissem ble &c 544)[obs3]; guileless, pure; truth-loving; unperjured[obs3]; true blue, a s good as one's word; unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide; outspoken, ingenuous &c (artless) 703; undisguised &c (real) 494. uncontrived. Adv. truly &c (really) 49 4; in plain words &c 703; in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth; as th e dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole; honor bright; troth; in good sooth [obs3], in good earnest; unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth[obs3], sooth to say[obs3], bona fide, in foro conscientiae[Lat]; without equivocation; cartes s ur table, from the bottom of one's heart; by my troth &c (affirmation) 535. Phr. di il vero a affronterai il diavolo[It][obs3]; Dichtung und Wahrheit[Ger]; esto quod esse videris[Lat]; magna est veritas et praevalet[Lat]; "that golden key t hat opes the palace of eternity" [Milton]; veritas odium parit[Lat]; veritatis s implex oratio est[Lat]; verite sans peur[Fr]. < should clarify distinction between untruth generally (objectively false) and un truth in communication (lie, deception) > #544. Falsehood. N. falsehood, falsenes s; falsity, falsification; deception &c. 545; untruth &c 546; guile; lying &c. 4 54; untruth &c 546; guile; lying &c. v. misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, f alse swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption[obs3]; covin[obs3]. p erversion of truth, suppression of truth; suppressio veri[Lat]; perversion, dist ortion, false coloring; exaggeration &c 549; prevarication, equivocation, shuffl ing, fencing, evasion, fraud; suggestio falsi &c (lie) 546[Lat]; mystification & c (concealment) 528; simulation &c (imitation) 19; dissimulation, dissembling; d eceit; blague[obs3]. sham; pretense, pretending, malingering. lip homage, lip se rvice; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere outside; duplicity, double deali ng, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug; jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machi avelism, "organized hypocrisy"; crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness[obs3], quacke ry; charlatanism[obs3], charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum[obs3], bumcombe, flam; bam* [obs3], flimflam, cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy &c (bad faith) 940; il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti[It]. unfairness &c (dishonesty) 940; artfulnes s &c (cunning) 702; misstatement &c (error) 495. V. be false &c adj., be a liar &c 548; speak falsely &c adv.; tell a lie &c. 546; lie, fib; lie like a trooper; swear false, forswear, perjure oneself, bear false witness. misstate, misquote, miscite[obs3], misreport, misrepresent; belie, falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon &c. (misinterpret) prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; pa lter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand[Fr]; trim, shuffle, fence , mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose. garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a gloss, put fa lse coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider; varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate &c 549; blague[obs3]. invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake,