Sentence : The old man felt a pang every time he tried to walk fast.
Synonym : Spasm, Shooting Pain
WORD : Pang
A sudden, sharp feeling of pain
Context: Page 215-He saw that his wife was coming to join him, and he saw with a pang that she too walked as if she were old.
Antonym : ease, comfort

Sentence : A great orator is a person who is a good public speaker
Synonym : Speaker, spokesperson
WORD : Orator
A person who delivers a speech
Context: Page 220- They are simple people, and they do not know that this is one of the country’s greatest orators, with one thing lacking.
Antonym : Quiet

Sentence : Early leaders were unscrupulous and would exploit the poor people and laborers.
Synonym : Corrupt
WORD : Unscrupulous
To be corrupt, dishonest
Context: But a man called a spokesman has pointed out that the African
Miners are simple souls, hardly qualified in the art of negotiation, and an easy tool for unscrupulous agitators.
Antonym : Scrupulous

Sentence : The lawyer argued cogently the case of the defendant.
Synonym : Clearly, logically
WORD : Cogently
To be reasonable or convincing.
Context: Page 233- He has dealt profoundly with the disaster that has overwhelmed our native tribal society, and has argued cogently the case of our own complicity in this disaster.
Antonym : Blindly

Sentence : Construction workers wrought the building.
Synonym : Created
WORD : Wrought
To create or to have been prepared somehow.
Context: Page 233- But even if it be true that we have, out of fear and selfishness and thoughtlessness, wrought a destruction that we have done little to repair…”
Antonym : Destroy

Sentence : He cannot trifle with the math problem because then it would be incorrect.
Synonym : Mess with
WORD : Trifle
Spend time inefficiently on something. To mess or change around something.
Context: Page 233- But a judge may not trifle with the Law because the society is defective.
Antonym :

Sentence : They got into a quarrel for the money.
Synonym : Disagree, argument
WORD : Quarrel
An angry dispute
Context: page 247- Kumalo made a speech too, but it was stumbling and uncertain, for the lie and the quarrel were uppermost in his mind.
Antonym: Agreement

Sentence : I forswear all the homework that is given to me.
Synonym : Reject, Deny
WORD : Forswear
Reject or deny with great emphasis
Context: Page 248- He was retiring into a community, and would forswear the world and all possessions, and this was the first time that a black man had done such a thing in South Africa.
Antonym : Allow, agree

Sentence : No school would countenance the act of skipping school.
Synonym : Allow, tolerate
WORD : Countenance
To give permission to, to allow
Context: Page 234- But no court of Justice could countenance such a view.
Antonym : Disapprove, ban

Sentence : I once saw a parson in the street preaching about religion.
Synonym : Priest, Reverend
WORD : Parson
A person authorized to conduct religious worship.
Context: page 211- While he was reading there was a knock at the kitchen door, and he went out to find a native parson standing on the pave stone at the foot of the three stone steps that led up to the kitchen.
Antonym :