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End, 259

EFFECTIVE — INEFFECTIVE

EFFECTIVENESS — INEFFECTIVENESS

EFFECTUAL — INEFFECTUAL

EFFECTUALLY — INEFFECTUALLY

It would have been equally ineffective... to convince him that she spent not one farthing upon her own person­ al expenses...

Hatter's, 319

Silly, ineffective irritating bills really get drafted and messed about with and passed on the strength of it.

The drunk, ignorant of the world, again made an in­ effectual farewell.

Hullo, 31

...her eyes fell upon his weak, daunted countenance,

striving ineffectually against discouragement...

Hatter’s, 92

EMOTIONAL — UNEMOTIONAL

EMOTIONALLY — UNEMOTIONALLY

The sense of publicity, of people coming and going about them, kept them both unemotional.

Ann, 293

A shrewd observer might have remarked that the emo­ tional temperature rather rose at so unemotional an interruption.

Brown, 368

“ It looks bad,” Pettinger confirmed unemotionally.

Crusaders, 568

ENCOU RAGE — DISCOU RAGE

ENCOURAGEMENT — DISCOURAGEMENT

Roberta turned, conscious that now was the time to decide whether she would encourage or discourage any attention on his part.

Tragedy, 279

Thus, the editorial sought to encourage fascist elements in the community and to discourage all who might fear violence.

Tomorrow, 219

He struggled in the dark, without advice, without en­ couragement, and in the teeth of discouragement.

Eden, 139

ENCUMBER — DISENCUMBER

ENCUMBERED — UNENCUMBERED

Disencumbering himself of a barrel-organ... he came up to the fire to dry himself and entered into conver­ sation.

Curiosity, 166

He responded strongly to his own suggestion that, dis­ encumbered of his wife, ...a new and more impor­ tant book of his life was beginning.

Hatter's, 476

Nessie, confronted by the unencumbered fable... glanced first at the engrossed figure of her mother...

Hatter's, 40

The estate contained too much covert to be profitable, and, though unencumbered, brought in but a few hundreds a year of net revenue.

End, 33

ENDING — UNENDING

He felt the weariness of two sleepless nights, the unend­ ing tension of waiting...

Tomorrow, 169

...the fear of the eternal blackness, the nothing around you, the great, great, great unending emptiness.

Crusaders, 59

ENDURABLE — UNENDURABLE

My cabin being close and unendurable...

Hatter's, 141

...his manner was thaf of a man suffering under almost unendurable provocation.

Invisible, 35

ENGAGE — DISENGAGE

ENGAGEMENT — DISENGAGEMENT

...that all his governors were engaged and never expect­ ed to be disengaged any more.

Dombey, 296

Apple, 57

The cage of a plighted woman hungering for her dis­ engagement has two keepers, a noble and a vile...

Egoist, 123

Their lives were lives of intimate disengagement.

Marriage, 391

ENLIGHTENED — UNENLIGHTENED

But as to me, left alone with the solitary candle, I re­ mained strangely unenlightened.

Jim , 183

...they were finally brought into his presence by Jarkins and Randolph, equally unenlightened as to their part in the matter.

S toic, 83

ENTANGLE — DISENTANGLE

ENTANGLEMENT — DISENTANGLEMENT

Farrish stood before the schoolhouse and watched De Jeannenet’s units disentangle themselves from his own.

Crusaders, 168

These things generally disentangle themselves.

End, 96

She was ready to expatiate on the gravity of her fault, so long as the humiliation assisted to her disentangle­ ment.

Egoist, 477

Rex strolled towards the cigars, with disentanglement obviously in his mind.

Marriage, 342

EQUAL — UNEQUAL

EQUALLY — UNEQUALLY

EQUALITY — INEQUALITY

I hope to achieve a peaceful settlement of the unequal situation in Iran.

Diplomat, 127

Pianist, thinking of his wife and family, gives up the

unequal contest and retires...

He attacked the subject of Social Inequality with un­ bounded enthusiasm.

Octopus, 291

But spiritually, there is pure difference and neither equality nor inequality counts.

Women, 95

EQUIVOCAL — UNEQUIVOCAL

EQUIVOCALLY — UNEQUIVOCALLY

...manifesting one month’s after marriage unequivocal

symptoms of the tiger...

Crusaders, 488

Piece, 261

...there was that ineradicable and possibly censurable, yet very human and almost unescapable desire for something more...

...a round object, thrown with unerring accuracy, struck her upon the shoulder...

Hatter’s, 183

EVEN — UNEVEN

EVENLY — UNEVENLY

They kept round it' on the hillside over grass rougher and more uneven.

End, 227

She gripped his hand because of the dark uneven walk­ ing.

Diplomat, 159

The hole a flying coal had burnt in the unevenly faded dark-blue carpet looked larger than it had ever done before...

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EXHAUSTIBLE — INEXHAUSTIBLE

...they bore in their own hearts an inexhaustible well* spring of affection and devotion.

Posthumous, 456

...this was your inexhaustible mine of gold, your Eldo­ rado, eh?

Curiosity, 92

EXPECTED — UNEXPECTED

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Ideal, 238

If came by second post, which made its advent more unexpected.

The city of magic was to become to Martin neither a city nor any sort of magic, but merely a route: their

flat, the subway, the institute, a favoured inexpen­ sive restaurant.

Arrowsmith, 281

••.some way to make her get herself out of if inexpen­ sively and without any real trouble to him.

Tragedy, 417

EXPERIENCED — INEXPERIENCED

EXPERIENCE — INEXPERIENCE

But you are young and inexperienced, and that’s your excuse for asking such a question.

Yet, because of her inexperience, youth and faith thus

The proposal was monstrous, inexplicable, or explicable only by the assumption that his mind, while not un­ hinged, had temporarily lost its balance.

Arrowsmith, 52