Insert the proper word in each blank, and give the reason for your choice:—­

ACCREDIT, CREDIT. 1.  Mr. Lowell was ——­ed as Minister Plenipotentiary to England. 2.  These reasons will ——­ his opinion. 3.  He did not ——­ the strange report. 4.  The contribution of five dollars previously ——­ed to Mr. Williams came
   from Mr. Brown.
5.  Mr. Sherman is well ——­ed as a writer on finance. 6.  The bank has not ——­ed me with the interest on the deposit.

ARISE, RISE. 7.  The court ——­ at four o’clock. 8.  At the discharge of a gun whole flocks of quail would ——. 9.  The idea of a reward did not ——­ in his mind. 10.  Most of these appalling accidents ——­ from negligence. 11.  The men ——­ against their officers. 12.  Other cases of mutiny may ——.

CAPTIVATE, CAPTURE. 13.  Her husband was ——­d in the battle of Gettysburg. 14.  Mr. S. was ——­d by the young widow’s beauty. 15.  Let us attack them now and try to ——­ the whole squad. 16.  It is not merely what Chaucer has to say, but even more the agreeable
    way he has of saying it, that ——­s our attention and gives him an
    assured place in literature.

DEPRECIATE, DEPRECATE. 17.  Financial panics are likely to follow a—­d currency. 18.  His purpose was—­d by all who knew it. 19.  Both parties—­war. 20.  It is natural for those who have not succeeded to—­the work of those
    who have.
21.  He—­s his daughter’s desire to earn her own living. 22.  An injurious consequence of asceticism was a tendency to—­the
    character and the position of woman.

IMPUGN, IMPUTE. 23.  We cannot deny the conclusion of a proposition of Euclid without—­ing
    the axioms which are the basis of its demonstration.
24.  The gentleman—­s my honesty. 25.  The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the
    happy—­all their success to prudence and merit.
26.  Mr.X. is uncharitable; he always—­s bad motives.

II.  A RESEMBLANCE IN SENSE MISLEADS.[94]

ANTAGONIZE, OPPOSE.—­To antagonize means properly “to struggle against,” “to oppose actively,” or “to counteract.”  “In England, antagonizing forces must be of the same kind, but in the political phraseology of the United States a person may antagonize (i.e., oppose) a measure."[95]

CALCULATE, INTEND.—­To calculate means properly “to compute mathematically,” or “to adjust or adapt” for something.  In the sense of intend it is not in good use.

CARRY, BRING, FETCH.—­To carry means “to take along in going;” to bring means “to take along in coming;” to fetch means “to go, get, and bring.”

CHAMPION, SUPPORT.—­The word champion is very much overworked, being often used in the general sense of “support.”  It should be restricted to cases in which there is the idea of entering the lists as champion of a cause.