The Cup of Humanity |
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Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the | |
eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite (1) ... . | AMUSE |
The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism- | |
Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the (2) ... of the beautiful among the | ADORE |
sordid facts of everyday (3) ... .It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery | EXIST |
of mutual charity, the (4) ... of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the | ROMANTIC |
(5) ..., as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this | PERFECT |
impossible thing we know as life. The Philosophy of Tea is not mere | |
aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses (6) ... | CONJOIN |
with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. | |
It is hygiene, for it enforces (7) ... ; it is economics, for it shows comfort in | CLEAN |
(8) ... rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch | SIMPLE |
as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. | |
ANSWERS
VERB TO NOUN | AMUSE => AMUSEMENT |
SUFFIX (-MENT) A suffix of nouns, often concrete, denoting an action or resulting state: REFRESHMENT |
VERB TO NOUN | ADORE => ADORATION |
SUFFIX (-TION) A suffix occurring in words of Latin origin, used to form abstract nouns from verbs: REVOLUTION |
VERB TO NOUN | EXIST => EXISTENCE |
SUFFIX (-ENCE) A suffix forming nouns indicating an action, state, condition, or quality: PATIENCE |
ADJECTIVE TO NOUN | ROMANTIC => ROMANTICISM |
SUFFIX (-ISM) A suffix forming nouns indicating a doctrine, system, or body of principles and practices: LENINISM |
ADJECTIVE TO NEGATIVE | PERFECT => IMPERFECT |
PREFIX (-IM) The form used for in - before b, m, or p: IMPOSSIBLE |
VERB TO ADVERB | CONJOIN => CONJOINTLY |
SUFFIX (-LY) A suffix forming adverbs from adjectives: GLADLY |
ADJECTIVE TO NOUN | CLEAN => CLEANLINESS |
SUFFIX (-NESS) A native English suffix attached to adjectives and participles, forming abstract nouns denoting quality and state: DARKNESS |
ADJECTIVE TO NOUN | SIMPLE => SIMPLICITY |
SUFFIX (-ITY) A suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing state or condition: CIVILITY |