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She sprang to her feet, wringing her hands in impotent

wrath.

Lodging, 87

PRACTICAL — IMPRACTICAL

PRACTICABLE — IMPRACTICABLE

For Clyde’s parents had proved impractical in the matter of the future of their children.

T r a g e d y , 17

Would it be possible to gear down a gas turbine for use in automobiles, or was that impracticable.

PREDICTABLE — UNPREDICTABLE

For a long time he had been rated as more or less unpre­

J im , 258

Kent nodded his head approvingly, intent on humour­ ing his strange visitor, but wholly unprepared for the outburst which was to follow his effort to be agree­ able.

Gash, 69

PRESENTABLE — UNPRESENTABLE

...the absurdity of introducing' to his friends a heavy unpresentable senior as the celebrated gallant Lieu­ tenant of Marines...

E g o is t, 31

PRESSED — UNPRESSED

This particular collection were men in their unpressed best suits.

D ip lo m a t, 124

was old-fashioned and low, unpretentious without, comfortable within.

E n d , 4 0 9

The trouble with ski-trousers is that they are so unpre­

tentiously masculine urbane...

E n d , 33

P R O B A B L E 213 P R O P E R

It seems most improbable. You were mistaken.

T o m orrow , 309

PROFESSIONAL — UNPROFESSIONAL

All of them had at one time or another gone over to the laboratory for advice or medicine or simply for unpro­ fessional company.

PROFITABLE — UNPROFITABLE

PROFITABLY — UNPROFITABLY

...the work proving highly unprofitable...

T r a g e d y , 32

He... directed a certain portion of his capital to largely

indecisive but on the whole unprofitable speculations...

M a r r ia g e , 32

She thought of the strange flaccid daily life of those two women whose hours seemed to slip unprofitably

away...

W iv es, 408

PROPER — IMPROPER

PROPERLY — IMPROPERLY

PROPRIETY — IMPROPRIETY

This was not a proper form of mind to approach under­ taking; an improper frame of mind not only for him, I said, but for any man.

J i m , 2 2 5

He never does a proper thing without giving an improp­ er reason for it.

M a jo r , 79

It might be that alkali in an improperly cleaned flask had caused the clearing of the culture.

A rro w sm ith , 3 1 0

A dim sentiment of impropriety in unburdening his overcharged mind... restrained him from defending himself.

E g o is t, 475

In the three social visits which were made after Mr. Galbraith had ceased to be Civil Lord... there was no impropriety at all.

D . W ., F e b r . 6 , 1963

PROPORTIONATE — DISPROPORTIONATE PROPORTIONATELY — DISPROPORTIONATELY

His dimunitive intellect, so disproportionate to his

gigantic body, could not direct him towards safety...

H a t t e r ’s, 335

...he was standing nearest to the lady, where indeed he might have been found during a disproportionate part of the time.

Who K n ew , 79

And what big paws it has — disproportionately big!

M a r r ia g e , 498

C ru sa d e rs, 583

PROVE — DISPROVE

What’s the good of believing a lot of old tales nobody can prove or disprove?

C olon el, 283

... that would either prove or disprove what she suspect­ ed.

So m e C am e, 1107

PROVOKED — UNPROVOKED

I was anxious to end this scene on grounds of decency, just as one is anxious to cut short some unprovoked and abominable confidence.

J i m , 89

Langner made an unprovoked attack on a police officer.

Tom orrow . 2 1 0

PRUDENT — IMPRUDENT

PRUDENCE — IMPRUDENCE

In the square she was understood to be quite without common sense, hopelessly imprudent...

W ives, 3 4 2

...she tittered spitefully, filled by a heady, rancorous imprudence.

H a t t e r ’s, 5 1 4

PUBLISHED — UNPUBLISHED

They savour of the heretical views of the Anabaptists,

views that I have completely refuted in four of my unpublished sermons.

1 m p o rian ce, 344

P U B L I S H E D — 216 — Q U ES T IO N ED

M a u p a s s a n t, 66

PURE — IMPURE

PURITY — IMPURITY

... her motive in leaving Miss Chetwynd’s and joining the shop had been, at the best, very mixed, very impure.

The skin was unable longer to cast off the impurity of the blood, and the result was that the body began to swell.

N o rth w e st, 116

QUALIFIED — UNQUALIFIED

... anxiety gave way to consideration, and finally unqualified acceptance of the idea.

did all the rough work and worked the most awkward hours.

D ip lo m a t, 6 2 0

Q U E S T I O N A B L E 217 — R A V E L

He was not properly awake, and had a notion of being very civil in these extraordinary circumstances, of showing his unquestioning, devoted readiness.

J im , 2 7 6

RATIONAL — IRRATIONAL

RATIONALLY — IRRATIONALLY

He pondered this statement a while with his head drawn back, and then, disregarding it as irrational began to kiss her again.

H u llo , 102

Thorpe was always, well, kind of irrational...

C ru sa d e rs, 232

Irrationally enough the absence of the hat, as well as the greyness of the hair, made her feel that this man also improved on acquaintance.

Who K n e w , 2 4 6

She was dancing with him in the back room to a jazz melody most irrational !y hammered out upon the piano.

T r a g e d y , 71

RAVEL — UNRAVEL

They reported that it was nothing but unravelled lace.

T o m orrow , 265

... he might still unravel the whole untidy mass.

C ru sa d e rs, 286

READABLE — UNREADABLE

Willoughby appeared to her scarce human, unreadable, safe by the key that she could supply.

E g o is t, 508

Nowadays it is only the unreadable that occurs.

Here it was once more to startle him out of his soul flight into a realization of the real or unreal imme­ diate problem... that lay before him.

T ra g e d y , 512

...there was the unreality of a dream about it.

P ic tu re , 122

... she stopped reading to gaze at the unreality.

E n d , 40

REASONABLE — UNREASONABLE

REASONABLY — UNREASONABLY

REASON — UNREASON

Now it seemed one of the most reasonable things in the world that I should have come, and now one of the most unreasonable.

Bleak, 636

“ The whole business — it’s unreasonable from begin­ ning to end.” — “ Quite reasonable,” said the invisible man; “ perfectly reasonable.”

I n v is ib le , 96

He treats her so peculiarly, not unkindly, but forcing

her so unreasonably to work at her lessons...

H a tt e r 's , 592

... she could perfectly well see the unreason of the exemption he was claiming,

E n d , 2 7 2

... the border-line look between reason and unreason...

T r a g e d y , 471

RECLAIMABLE — IRRECLAIMABLE

... he was not supposed to be utterly depraved and

irreclaimable...

RECOGNIZABLE — UNRECOGNIZABLE

RECOGNIZED — UNRECOGNIZED

He was unrecognizable, something quite beyond the ken of honest, ordinary revolutionists...

M e x ic a n , 3 1 4

Dr. Sommervill had borrowed the idea from the Marx­ ists, turned it inside out so as to make it unrecogniz­ able, and then adjusted it to his basic theory.

T o m o rrow , 71

Miss Pearl Robbins... was wickedly unrecognized and had to make up a uniform for herself.

A rro w sm ith , 301

... people, critical of her pretensions to rise from an

unrecognized sphere to be Mistress of Patterne Hall...

E g o i s t , 46

REGARD — DISREGARD

Brodie... had now resumed with an utter disregard for business, his habits of scrupulous punctuality.

' H a tt e r 's , 364

... in utter disregard of their plain duty...

Irregular and with a good deal of character, their faces refused generalization.

E n d , 3 6 0

But these footsteps were so odd that one could not de­ cide them regular or irregular.

B ro w n , 63

... his heart was beating and pounding furiously and

irregularly...

Here is one verse. The metrical irregularity is inten­

tional...

A n n , 5 7