One syllable words:

* air * care * stare * dare

* pair * pare * ware * wear * fair * hair * bare * bear * snare * glare * rare * square * spare * there * their * flare * chair * where * mare * prayer

* swear

Two syllable words:

* aware * contrary

* affair * compare * despair

* declare * unfair * repair * forswear Three syllable words:

* solitaire

* unaware Four syllable words:

* millionaire
care, bear, where,were,lair,hair A LOT OF THINGS

Here is the Google definition for the 2 words

Abjure: 1. to renounce, repudiate, or retract, esp. with formal solemnity; recant: to abjure ones errors. 2. to renounce or give up under oath; forswear: to abjure allegiance. 3. to avoid or shun. Abdicate:
--verb (used without object)
1. to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, esp. in a formal manner: The aging founder of the firm decided to abdicate.
--verb (used with object) 2. to give up or renounce (authority, duties, an office, etc.), esp. in a voluntary, public, or formal manner: King Edward VIII of England abdicated the throne in 1936.

It is from this speech by Desdemona in Othello Act IV Scene 2

• O good Iago,
  What shall I do to win my lord again?
  Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven,
  I know not how I lost him. Here I kneel:
  If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love,
  Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,
  Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense,
  Delighted them in any other form;
  Or that I do not yet, and ever did.
  And ever will—though he do shake me off
  To beggarly divorcement—love him dearly,
  Comfort forswear me! Unkindness may do much;
  And his unkindness may defeat my life,
  But never taint my love.

affair air airfare armchair aware bare bear beware blare bugbear care carfare coheir compare cookware corsair cudbear dare daycare, declare despair eclair elsewhere ensnare fair faire fanfare fare flair flare flatware footwear forbear forebear foreswear forswear foursquare glare glassware hair hardware hare heir horsehair impair knitwear lair longhair mare menswear midair mohair neckwear nightmare nightwear nowhere outwear pair pare pear plowshare prayer prepare quare rare repair scare share shorthair snare software somewhere spare sportswear square stair stare stemware stoneware swear tare tear their there they're threadbare tinware unfair voltaire ware warfare wear welfare wheelchair where wirehair

bear,scare,pair,dare,care,fair and a lot more but the best out of the ones i named are pair and fair

Hair

Bear

Bare

Air

Fair

Fare

Mare

Stare

Stair

Wear

Ware

Flare

Dare

affair air airfare armchair aware bare bear beware blare bugbear care carfare coheir compare cookware corsair cudbear dare daycare, declare despair eclair elsewhere ensnare fair faire fanfare fare flair flare flatware footwear forbear forebear foreswear forswear foursquare glare glassware hair hardware hare heir horsehair impair knitwear lair longhair mare menswear midair mohair neckwear nightmare nightwear nowhere outwear pair pare pear plowshare prayer prepare quare rare repair scare share shorthair snare software somewhere spare sportswear square stair stare stemware stoneware swear tare tear their there they're threadbare tinware unfair voltaire ware warfare wear welfare wheelchair where wirehair

affair air airfare armchair aware bare bear beware blare bugbear care carfare coheir compare cookware corsair cudbear dare daycare, declare despair eclair elsewhere ensnare fair faire fanfare fare flair flare flatware footwear forbear forebear foreswear forswear foursquare glare glassware hair hardware hare heir horsehair impair knitwear lair longhair mare menswear midair mohair neckwear nightmare nightwear nowhere outwear pair pare pear plowshare prayer prepare quare rare repair scare share shorthair snare software somewhere spare sportswear square stair stare stemware stoneware swear tare tear their there they're threadbare tinware unfair voltaire ware warfare wear welfare wheelchair where wirehair

Hair

Pair

Pear

Wear

Tear

affair, air, airfare, armchair, aware,

bare (nude), bear, beware, blare, bugbear,

care, carfare, coheir, compare, cookware, corsair, cudbear, Claire (name),

dare, daycare, declare, despair,

eclair, elsewhere, ensnare,

fair, faire, fanfare, fare, flair, flare, flatware, footwear, forbear, forebear, foreswear, forswear, foursquare,

glare (stare), glassware,

hair, hardware, hare (kind of rabbit), heir, horsehair,

impair,

knitwear,

lair,

mare,

nair, ne'er,

outwear, outerwear, ovenware,

pare, pair, pear plowshare, prayer, prepare,

quare,

rare, repair,

scare, share, shorthair, snare, software, somewhere, spare, sportswear, square, stair, stare, stemware, stoneware, swear,

tare, tear their, there, they're, threadbare, tinware,

underwear, unfair,

Voltaire,

ware, warfare, wear, welfare, wheelchair, where, wirehair,

Words that Rhyme with Scare

words that end in -air (fair, hair)

words that end in -eir (heir, their)

words that end in -are (bare, care)

words that end in -ear (bear, pear)

words that end in -ere (there)

other words and contractions (faire, ne'er, they're)
aware, beware, blare
bear, care, hare, pair, rare, stare, tair, wear

1. Thou shalt not rely on the compiler-generated methods for construction, destruction, copy construction, or assignment for any but the simplest of classes. Thou shalt implement these "big four" methods for any nontrivial class.
2. Thou shalt declare and define the destructor as virtual such that others may become heir to the fruits of your labors.
3. Thou shalt not violate the "is-a" rule by abusing the inheritance mechanism for thine own twisted perversions.
4. Thou shalt not rely on any implementation-dependent behavior of a compiler, operating system, or hardware environment, lest thy code be forever caged within that dungeon.
5. Thou shalt not augment the interface of a class at the lowest level without most prudent deliberation. Such ill-begotten practices imprison thy clients unjustly into thy classes and create unrest when code maintenance and extension are required.
6. Thou shalt restrict thy friendship to truly worthy contemporaries. Beware, for thou art exposing thyself rudely as from a trenchcoat.
7. Thou shalt not abuse thy implementation data by making it public or static except in the rarest of instances. Thy data are thine own; share it not with others.
8. Thour shalt not suffer dangling pointers or references to be harbored within thy objects. These are nefarious and precarious agents of random and wanton destruction.
9. Thou shalt make use of available class libraries as conscientiously as possible. Code reuse, not thine own but that of thy clients as well, is the holy grail of OO.
10. Thou shalt forever forswear the use of the vile printf/scanf, rather favoring the flowing streams. Cast off thy vile C cloak and partake of the wondrous fruit of flexible and extensible I/O.

By Phin Straite, taken from "Practical C++ Programming".

Frizzy hair, underwear, grizzly bear, are we there, care bear, double dare, county fair

Anywhere

Fair

Hair

Bear

Care

Rare

Lair

aer, air, ayre, baehr, baer, bahr, bair, bare, bear, behr, blair,blare, caire, care, chair, cher, clair, claire, clare, dare, darr, derr,dreher, err, eyre, fair, faire, fare, fehr, fer, ferre, flair, flare, fraire,freyre, gair, gare, gehr, glare, guerre, hair, haire, hairr, hare, hehr,heir, herr, herre, kahre, kehr, khmer, klare, knerr, kreher, lair, lare,lehr, mair, maire, mare, mehr, mer, nair, ne'er, pair, pare, pear,phair, plair, prayer, rare, reher, sare, sayre, scare, schehr, scherr,sehr, serr, share, sherr, skare, snare, spare, square, stair, stare,stehr, sterr, swear, tear, their, there, they're, traer, ware, wear,wehr, werre, zehr abair, adair, adaire, addair, affair, alair, allaire, astaire, auclair,aware, bancaire, beaufrere, belair, belaire, beware, bezaire,boisclair, coderre, comair, compare, convair, corriere, declare,delair, despair, dispair, ensnare, finnair, forswear, foursquare,frontiere, geniere, gisclair, glenayre, impair, kenmare, laware,leclaire, lefrere, lemaire, macnair, mcnair, midair, moliere, montclair,o'hare, opere, pentair, pershare, pierre, praxair, prepare, repair,santerre, sinclair, swissair, takecare, terre, trosclair, unfair,voltaire, westair, whitehair almaguer, bellemare, billionaire, canadair, debonair, disrepair,doctrinaire, icelandair, javier, jeanpierre, larosiere, laterriere,maxicare, microware, millionaire, nationair, questionnaire, solitaire,unaware, usair concessionaire euromobiliare, multimillionaire

underwear, scary bear, frizzy hair, double-dare

anywhere freeware he/she/we wear

hardware bus fare over there big chair
Underwear
rimes? If you're saying "rhymes," then lots of things. Dare, scare, hair, there, underwear, etc.

There are 77 references of passover but actual Passovers there are 26 actual occurrences of passover mentioned. Through the entire timeline of the bible there would of been about 6,000. However long it was from Adam's awakening to 50 years after Jesus died in years is how many there were. Passover is the fourteenth day of the first month aka January 14th.

Fourteenth day of the JEWISH year. 14th Nisan. Jewish year is a lunar year with corrections. 14th Nisan varies from year to year in the Gregorian calendar. It occurs sometime in March or April.

Some passover occurrences are duplicated in Kings and Chronicles, for example. These are instances where the celebration is specifically mentioned. It happened every year - in theory.

The first Passover is in Exodus 12 (Egypt) . The second is Numbers 9. (Sinai) . The third is Joshua 5 (Gilgal). The fourth is 2 Chronicles 30 (Jerusalem - Hezekiah). The fifth is 2 Kings 23 (Jerusalem - Josiah also 2 Chronicles 35). The sixth is in Ezra 6 ( Return from Exile)

In the New Testament there is seventh Passover mentioned only in John 2. This appears to be a deliberate transposition by John in order to show that Jesus must be understood by what happened at the seventh Passover.

The seventh Passover is in all Four Gospels and is a major part of all accounts. It is also referred to by Paul in 1 Corinthians 11.

Finally, Jesus refers to an eighth Passover which is yet to be celebrated once the Kingdom of God is established. He appears to forswear wine until then. This seems to be a Nazirite vow on His part.

Jews may wish to dispute the last two but the numeric significance when taken together is awesome.

Yes, it is to most people. Some people say they promise on the Bible instead, but either way its God's choice to figure if it's wrong or not, so I really do not know, but I would say "Promise on the Bible"

Answer

There is no group that would profit by swearing on a Bible, except those wishing to use superstitious belief as a lever to get others to believe them:

• Christians are enjoined not to swear (promise to tell he truth) in their own Bible. In the Epistle of James 5:12 it states "Above all, my brothers, do not swear--not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. Let your "Yes" be yes, and your "No," no, or you will be condemned."
• Atheists would see no purpose to swearing on any book - Bible, phonebook or Dictionary
• Other religions would see nothing special about a Bible as an "anchor" for their truthfulness
• The ancient Romans gave us the word "testify" by holding their testicles while swearing to tell the truth

Speaking of the U.S. Constitution, it would seem so yet I don't know if that issue has ever been challenged and addressed before the U.S. Supreme Court since most courts no longer use the Bible itself during the "swearing in" ceremony. Most legal oaths in American history ended with the phrase "so help you God." This too has been eliminated from swearing of witnesses to avoid religious connotations.

For those who conscientiously object to "swearing an oath" based on sincerely held religious beliefs or objections to religious oaths, U.S. courts will typically allow the witness to make an "affirmation" stating that they understand the penalties of perjury. However, this often does not resolve the problem of the objection to affirming before testifying as to what will occur. One can not be forced to swear an oath, and even affirmations that predict future testimony could still be objected to on religious grounds:

The Bible - King James Version (KJV) - Mathew 5:33-37 "33 Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself , but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: 34 But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: 35 Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool : neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. 36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. 37 But let your communication be , Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."

The objection here is that only God knows the future, so people who "swear" (affirm or vow) as to future events are falsely taking the powers of God upon themselves and what they say then comes from evil (or the Devil). Religious followers are instructed to simply answer with a truthful reply of "yes" or "no" when each question is posed, and not attempt to predict what will happen in the near or distant future.

Laws that punish for perjury of false testimony or filing false legal statements do not necessarily need an oath to convict. The act of deception itself or the harm caused by false statements is punishable without an oath.

Swearing or affirming "before" giving testimony is like putting the cart before the horse (meaning backwards from what it is logical). When offering a written statement of fact or affidavit, you typically would not sign at the bottom first, affirming that the above statements are true, and then fill in the document. Instead, you fill in the written statement first, then sign at the bottom. One possible alternative in the courtroom might be to give testimony with the presumption that you are telling the truth, then state the affirmation that the testimony you have already given is true to the best of your knowledge.

Before dismissing a witness, the judge could simply ask "Is the testimony that you have just given today the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?" Then the witness could truthfully answer "yes" without having to predict the future or perform any religious ceremony.

1 syllable:

aer, air, ayre, baehr, baer, bahr, bair, bare, bear, behr, Blair, blare, caire, chair, Cher, Clair, Claire, clare, dare, darr, derr, dreher, err, Eyre, fair, faire, fare, fehr, fer, ferre, flair, flare, fraire, freyre, gair, gare, gehr, glare, guerre, hair, haire, hairr, hare, hehr, heir, herr, herre, kahre, kehr, Khmer, klare, knerr, kreher, lair, lare, lehr, mair, maire, mare, mehr, mer, nair, ne'er, pair, pare, pear, phair, plair, prayer, rare, reher, sare, sayre, scare, schehr, scherr, sehr, serr, share, sherr, skare, snare, spare, square, stair, stare, stehr, sterr, swear, tear, their, there, they're, traer, ware, wear, wehr, werre, where, zehr

2 syllables:

abair, adair, adaire, addair, affair, alair, allaire, ant bear, astaire, auclair, au pair, aware, bancaire, bath chair, beach chair, beaufrere, belair, belaire, beware, bezaire, black bear, black maire, blue air, boisclair, brown bear, bus fare, cab fare, calm air, camp chair, cat bear, coderre, comair, compare, convair, coon bear, corriere, cross hair, death chair, deck chair, declare, delair, despair, dispair, ensnare, false hair, finnair, forswear, foursquare, frontiere, geniere, gisclair, glenayre, great bear, guard hair, hot air, ice bear, impair, kenmare, laware, lawn chair, leclaire, lefrere, lemaire, light air, lord's prayer, lounge chair, macnair, marsh hare, mcnair, midair, moliere, montclair, mouse hare, o'hare, opere, pentair, pershare, Pierre, praxair, prepare, red scare, repair, root hair, santerre, sea hare, set square, side chair, sinclair, skunk bear, sloth bear, straight chair, stud mare, st Clair, st Claire, swamp hare, swissair, takecare, terre, times square, train fare, trosclair, try square, unfair, voltaire, westair, whitehair, white maire, wing chair, word square, yacht chair

3 syllables:

almaguer, arctic hare, balsam pear, barber chair, bartlett pear, belgian hare, bellemare, bevel square, billionaire, bill of fare, bring to bear, camel's hair, canadair, captain's chair, compressed air, croix de guerre, debonair, disrepair, doctrinaire, easy chair, evening prayer, feeding chair, flying mare, folding chair, garden chair, grizzly bear, have been there, head of hair, honey bear, house of prayer, icelandair, in the air, javier, jeanpierre, laissez faire, larosiere, laterriere, latin square, leisure wear, liquid air, little bear, love affair, magic square, mal de mer, market square, maxicare, microware, millionaire, morning prayer, Morris chair, nationair, native bear, native pear, nom de guerre, open air, panda bear, polar bear, polar hare, potty chair, prickly pear, pubic hair, public square, puff of air, questionnaire, river pear, rocking chair, seckel pear, sedan chair, snowshoe hare, solar flare, solitaire, stinging hair, st Pierre, subway fare, swivel chair, take a dare, taxi fare, teddy bear, unaware, usair, walk on air, wear and tear, windsor chair, woody pear, woolly bear

4 syllables:

anchovy pear, carpenter's square, ceramic ware, cinnamon bear, concessionaire, earning per share, electric chair, gala affair, in disrepair, kangaroo bear, kangaroo hare, koala bear, kodiak bear, little chief hare, out of thin air, overstuffed chair, reclining chair, sensory hair, social affair, syrian bear, up in the air, vanity fair, varying hare, walking on air

5 syllables:

Alaskan brown bear, alligator pear, avocado pear, book of common prayer, castle in the air, euromobiliare, European hare, multimillionaire

6 syllables:

American black bear, asiatic black bear, inspection and repair

--RhymeZone

dare, tear, and hair ryme with bare!
Snare, pair, pear, e.t.c

Hint: check the dictionary

1 syllable:

aer, air, ayre, baehr, baer, bahr, bair, bare, bear, behr, Blair, blare, caire, care, chair, Cher, Clair, Claire, clare, dare, darr, derr, dreher, err, Eyre, fair, faire, fare, fehr, fer, ferre, flair, flare, fraire, freyre, gair, gare, gehr, glare, guerre, hair, haire, hairr, hare, hehr, heir, herr, herre, kahre, kehr, Khmer, klare, knerr, kreher, lair, lare, lehr, mair, maire, mehr, mer, nair, ne'er, pair, pare, pear, phair, plair, prayer, rare, reher, sare, sayre, scare, schehr, scherr, sehr, serr, share, sherr, skare, snare, spare, square, stair, stare, stehr, sterr, swear, tear, their, there, they're, traer, ware, wear, wehr, werre, where, zehr

2 syllables:

abair, adair, adaire, addair, affair, alair, allaire, ant bear, astaire, auclair, au pair, aware, bancaire, bath chair, beach chair, beaufrere, belair, belaire, beware, bezaire, black bear, black maire, blue air, boisclair, brown bear, bus fare, cab fare, calm air, camp chair, car care, cat bear, child care, coderre, comair, compare, convair, coon bear, corriere, cross hair, day care, death chair, deck chair, declare, delair, despair, dispair, due care, ensnare, false hair, finnair, forswear, foursquare, frontiere, geniere, gisclair, give care, glenayre, great bear, great care, guard hair, hair care, health care, hot air, ice bear, impair, kenmare, laware, lawn chair, leclaire, lefrere, lemaire, light air, lord's prayer, lounge chair, macnair, marsh hare, mcnair, midair, moliere, montclair, mouse hare, o'hare, opere, pentair, pershare, Pierre, praxair, prepare, red scare, repair, root hair, santerre, sea hare, set square, side chair, sinclair, skin care, skunk bear, slight care, sloth bear, straight chair, st Clair, st Claire, swamp hare, swissair, takecare, take care, terre, times square, train fare, trosclair, try square, unfair, voltaire, westair, whitehair, white maire, wing chair, word square, yacht chair

3 syllables:

almaguer, arctic hare, balsam pear, barber chair, bartlett pear, belgian hare, bellemare, bevel square, billionaire, bill of fare, bring to bear, camel's hair, canadair, captain's chair, compressed air, croix de guerre, debonair, dental care, disrepair, doctrinaire, easy chair, evening prayer, feeding chair, folding chair, garden chair, grizzly bear, have been there, head of hair, honey bear, house of prayer, icelandair, in the air, javier, jeanpierre, laissez faire, larosiere, laterriere, latin square, leisure wear, liquid air, little bear, love affair, magic square, mal de mer, market square, maxicare, microware, millionaire, morning prayer, Morris chair, nationair, native bear, native pear, nom de guerre, nursing care, open air, panda bear, polar bear, polar hare, potty chair, prickly pear, pubic hair, public square, puff of air, questionnaire, river pear, rocking chair, seckel pear, sedan chair, snowshoe hare, solar flare, solitaire, stinging hair, st Pierre, subway fare, swivel chair, take a dare, taxi fare, teddy bear, unaware, usair, walk on air, wear and tear, windsor chair, with great care, woody pear, woolly bear

4 syllables:

anchovy pear, camera care, carpenter's square, ceramic ware, cinnamon bear, concessionaire, earning per share, electric chair, gala affair, hospital care, in disrepair, kangaroo bear, kangaroo hare, koala bear, kodiak bear, little chief hare, medical care, out of thin air, overstuffed chair, reclining chair, sensory hair, social affair, syrian bear, up in the air, vanity fair, varying hare, walking on air

5 syllables:

Alaskan brown bear, alligator pear, avocado pear, book of common prayer, castle in the air, euromobiliare, European hare, multimillionaire, ordinary care, reasonable care, tender loving care

6 syllables:

American black bear, asiatic black bear, inspection and repair
Scare

It's also suitable for the mood of nightmare.

altar, for one.
jar, far, superstar, car, memoir, ajar, (handle)bar, radar, czar, guitar, flatcar
burglar, circular, scholar, beggar, singular, popular, stellar, endear, forswear
annular, auricular, binocular, bipolar, cellular, circumlunar... to name a few...
Insular

Modular

Popular

Tubular
* cedar * vulgar * burglar * annular * binocular * glandular * similar * solar * secular * lunar * irregular * nuclear * oracular * polar * regular * stellar * cellular * vascular
acellular acetabular acicular acinar afar agar ajar alar alcazar alegar allobar almemar altar alular alveolar ampullar anear angular annular anovular antbear antennular antiar antiburglar anticar antimacassar antinuclear antipopular antiradar antisolar antitubercular antiwar antiwear appear appendicular ar areolar arrear arteriolar articular ashlar astylar atrioventricular attar aurar auricular avascular avatar avicular avuncular axillar bacillar bar basilar bazaar bazar beachwear bear beggar besmear bezoar bifilar bilinear bimolecular binocular biomolecular biovular bipolar blear boar bolar bolivar boxcar boyar briar bronchiolar budgerigar bugbear bulbar burglar bursar busbar caesar calamar calcar calcspar calendar canalicular canicular cannular capitular capsular car carbuncular cardiovascular caterpillar caviar cedar cellar cellular cerebellar cerebrovascular chadar char cheddar chimar chuddar chukar chukkar cigar cinnabar circular circumlunar circumpolar circumstellar cislunar clavicular clear coappear cochlear cocurricular colinear collar collinear columellar columnar commissar conciliar condylar consular coplanar copular corpuscular costar cottar cougar crepuscular crossbar crowbar cudbear cultivar cupular curricular curvilinear cuticular cyclecar cymar czar damar dammar daystar dear debar denar deodar desugar dewar dinar dipolar disappear disbar dissimilar diverticular dogear dollar drawbar drear durbar ear earthstar eggar embar endear epicuticular equiangular equimolar escar eschar escolar eskar exemplar extracellular extracurricular extranuclear extravascular extravehicular eyebar eyewear fabular facular familiar far fascicular fear feldspar felspar feuar fiar fibrillar fibrovascular fibular filar fistular flagellar flatcar fluorspar foliar follicular footgear footwear forbear forebear foreswear formalwear forswear foveolar friar fulmar funicular furcular gangliar gar gastrovascular gastrular gazar gear glabellar glandular globular glomerular gnar grammar granular grossular guar guitar gular haar hamular handcar handlebar hangar headgear hear hepatocellular hexaplar hilar hoar homonuclear homopolar horsecar hospodar hussar infundibular insofar instar insular intercellular intergranular interlaminar interlinear interlobular interlunar intermolecular internuclear interstellar interventricular interwar intracellular intramolecular intramuscular intraocular intravascular intraventricular invar irregular isallobar isobar izar jacamar jaguar jar jemadar jemidar jocular jowar jugular justiciar kabar kantar kbar kebar khaddar kilobar knar knitwear kyar labiovelar lacunar lahar lamellar laminar lar lascar lashkar lazar lear leisurewear lekvar lenticular liar lidar ligular linear liquidambar loadstar lobar lobular locular lodestar loungewear lumbar lunar lunisolar lunular lupanar maar macromolecular macronuclear macular majuscular makar malar mandibular manipular mar medlar medullar megabar megastar menswear micellar microbar microfibrillar micromolar micropylar microtubular microvascular microvillar midyear millibar millimolar mimbar minibar minicar mishear modular molar molecular monocular monomolecular mononuclear monovular mortar morular motorcar muggar multicar multicellular multimolecular multinuclear multipolar multiyear muscular mutular myofibrillar navar navicular near nebular neckwear nectar neuromuscular nightjar nightwear nodular noncellular noncircular noncollinear noncoplanar nondollar nongranular nonlinear nonmolecular nonnuclear nonpar nonplanar nonpolar nonsolar nonspectacular nonsugar nonvascular nonwar nucellar nuclear nucleolar nummular oar ocellar ocular opercular oracular orbicular orthomolecular osar oscular osmolar ossicular ostiolar ottar outerwear outhear outroar outsoar outswear outwar outwear overbear overclear overdear overfamiliar overfar overfear overhear overnear overparticular overwear ovular pabular palikar palmar papillar papular par particular patamar patellar pattamar pear peculiar pedlar peduncular pendular peninsular perpendicular petiolar petrodollar photonuclear phylar piacular pilar pillar pilular pinnular planar plantar planular playwear plumular polar polestar polymorphonuclear polynuclear poplar popular postwar preclear premolar prewar proconsular pronuclear proseminar protostar provascular prowar psywar pulsar pulvinar pupilar pustular qindar qintar quadrangular quasar quintar radar radicular radular railcar rainwear realgar reappear rear rebar rectangular rectilinear redear regear registrar regular rehear renovascular retear reticular retinular ricercar roar roseolar rostellar rubeolar saccular saggar saltcellar sambar sambhar samovar sandbar sangar sansar sardar sarsar scalar scapular scar schmear scholar scimetar scimitar scutellar sear secpar secular seggar semicircular semilunar seminar semipopular sewar shear shikar shmear shofar shophar sidebar sidecar simar similar simitar simular singular sirdar sitar sizar skiwear sleepwear smear soar sofar solar sonar soucar sowar sowcar spar spatular spear spectacular specular spicular spiracular sportswear sporular star stelar stellar stereoregular stipular stockcar streetcar stylar subadar subahdar subalar subcapsular subcellar subcellular sublunar submandibular subnuclear suborbicular subpar subpolar subsolar subvicar sugar supercar superlunar superspectacular superstar supramolecular supraventricular swear sweetbriar swimwear tabernacular tabular talar tar tartar tatar tear tegular templar temporomandibular tentacular testicular thenar thermonuclear tissular titular tolar tollbar tonsilar tonsillar townwear trabecular tracheolar tramcar transpolar triangular trilinear trinocular trocar trochar trochlear tsar tubercular tubular tumular turbocar tussar tutelar typebar tzar ulnar ultrafamiliar umbellar unbar unbear unclear underwear undular unfamiliar ungular unicellular unifilar unilinear unilocular unipolar unpopular unspectacular unswear upbear uprear uproar upsoar uptear utricular uvular vacuolar vallecular valvar valvular var variolar vascular vehicular velar ventricular venular verisimilar vermicular vernacular versicular vesicular vestibular vexillar vicar vinegar vocabular volar vulgar vulvar war wear wheatear yar year yesteryear zaffar zamindar zemindar zonular

Inciting Incident:

• -Hermia and Lysander plan to escape Athens the following night and marry in the house of Lysander's aunt.

• -They tell Hermia's friend Helena, who was once engaged to Demetrius.

• -Helena tells Demetrius of the lovers' plans. Demetrius goes into the woods after Hermia and Helena follows him because she loves him.

Birth and Parentage:

Alexander Pope, the most illustrious writer of the first half of the eighteenth century, and one who was regarded at least for three generations as one of the greatest poets of England, was born in 1688 in London. He was the son of another Alexander Pope, a Roman Catholic tradesman, living in the city of London and doing the linen wholesale trade. The Catholics at this time suffered from a number of handicaps and the followers of this religion were looked upon with suspicion and were open to persecution.

The Catholics by law were forbidden to live within ten miles of London, they were not allowed to serve in parliament or hold any office of profit under the crown. His grandfather (also an Alexander Pope) was a clergyman of the Church of England and a rector of a Hampshire parish. His father, the rector's son, was placed in an English house at Lisbon, where he became a Roman Catholic. We know little about the poet's childhood, although a few anecdotes of his early years are preserved by his half-sister, Mrs. Racket and other relatives. We learn on authority that he was originally a plump and healthy child, with a singularly sweet air and voice, but it was his incessant application with which he studied from twelve up­wards, which ruined his constitution and caused a curvature of his spine.His Education and literary acquaintances:

About the year 1700 it is said that the poet's father gave up business and retired into the country. He went to live at Binfield, a village about nine miles from Windsor, where the major part of the poet's life was spent. Education for a Roman Catholic at a grammar-school was not possible, unless they were ready to forswear their creed. Law forbade them to send their children to school out of the country and it was also out of the question to send them to edu­cational establishments kept by persons of their own faith in England since Papists were not allowed to keey schools. The edu­cation at the universities for the children of the Roman Catholics suffered from the same disadvantage. It was almost a hole-and-corner affair for them, even if it existed at all for them. Pope's education like-wise was irregular. At first he was placed under the care of a priest at the age of eight. A year after he was sent to a school of his own religion at Twiford near Winchester, and later to a school at Marylebone, kept by one Deane who, at the Revolution, had been expelled from his fellow-ship at Oxford as a non-juror. The school was wholly inefficient, therefore at the age of thirteen he was taken home and put for a few months under the tuition of another priest. For most of the part he was self-educated; he studded at home himself and without any proper guidance. He told Spence that he practically taught himself Greek, Latin and French. He read much, and with little guidance in the great English writers. Before he was eighteen Spenser, Waller, and Dryden had become his favourites. He was a precocious child with a sharp and intelligent brain and he could make the best of the limited oppor­tunities which he had at his disposal and within a few years he became a master of some of the best writers in English, French, Italian, and Greek. His life was saved, for his his health almost broke down by constant hard work at books, and was probably saved by the sound advice given to him by Dr. Radcliffe to read less and to ride on horseback everyday. Amonn the writers whose influence he felt most immensely at this time, mention may be made of Dryden, who taught him versification as he himself acknowledged later on. Life at Binfield was secluded ; there were very few distrac­tions of the city life here, consequently Pope got a favourable ground and ample scope for the furtherance of his literary ambi­tions. Besides, his father was sympathetic to them and he was , encouraged by him in his literary pursuits. It was Pope's good luck that he became acquainted with a number of literary men of distinc­tion. He was frequently visiting London where he made the acquaintance of Wycherley, the noted Restoration dramatist. , He corrected the dramatist's verses and frankly declared that they were worthless. This led to a break-up between the two and they parted company. He got himself introduced to and acquainted with William Walsh, who advised him "to be correct which he very faithfully cherished and cultivated throughout his life." He laboriously perfected his style when he was in the early twenties and the rest of his life was devoted to achieving correctness, wherein consists his just claim to fame and greatness. He became a poet early and as he himself has stated.

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame.

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

His prosperous poetic career:

Pope's first published works are contained in the sixth part of the Poetical Miscellanies, published in 1709 by Jacob Tonson, the most distinguished publisher of the times. It also includes the Pastorals, which had already been circulated in manuscript form to a few discriminating friend, his imitations of Ovid's Epistle from Sappho to Phaon, of Chaucer's Merchant's Tale (January and May) besides poems and translations by Rowe, the dramatist, Swift and Wycherley, and other eminent hands. It is said to have been written when Pope was sixteen years of age. The nine years viz., from 1708-1717 were years of experiment, which saw the poetic power of Pope reaching perfection after constant application to learn his craft. The pastoral poetry was above all trite and artificial, made by rule, and by a bad rule, an imitation of an imitation. There is not in the whole four of Pope's Pastorals a Single line which shows that he ever saw for himself with genuine delight a single flower or bird in the fields about his pretty Berkshire village. His Pastorals may have been written as early as 1704. It was generally felt that the young poet had made a good start. They were praised by Wycherley warmly in his lines To My Friend Mr. Pope.

His next venture was Essay on Criticism, probably written in 1709, when he was twenty, but not published till two years after. It marks a great advance in Pope's art. The subject he had now chosen suited his genius and the opportunity was availed of him with striking effect. The critics were full of praise. Addison ranked it as a "masterpiece in its kind," as it was original, elegant and perspicuous. One writer only, John Dennis, had attacked it.

About this time he made the acquaintance of his life-long friend, Martha Blount. The Blounts were an old Roman Catholic family living in Mapledurham, not far from Binfield. The two sisters who resided with their widowed mother, corresponded with Pope, and he seems to have had a genuine affection for the elde. Marthar to the end of his life.

Pope wrote by Steele's desire his Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day in 1711. Next year he is found contributing to the Spectator an imitation of Virgil's fourth Eclogue, generally known as the Pollio. The modern readers will regard the poem as laboured and unconvincing. His chief contribution was The Rape of the Lock. It achieved a popularity which it had never lost, after its separate publication in 1714 in five cantos, with the addition of the fanciful mythology of the sylphs and gnomes.

The young poet had by now made the acquaintance of Addison, Steele, Swift, Gay and other literary friends. He visited Will's coffee House, where Dryden had once an undisputed sway and Burton's which Addison had set up in 1712 as a meeting place for the Whigs' wits. Here he chanced to meet Ambrose Philips, Budgell, Tickell, Rowe, and the other writers chiefly connected with Addison and the Whigs. But he avoided to align himself with any political party.

One of his early poems viz, Windsor Forest was completed in 1713 and published in the same year. It exhibits the same vagueness of observation and the same lack of delight in pature as the Pastorals. Here and there we get some evidence of an eye for colour but the interest of the poet does not consist in the "lawns and op'ning glades," the "hills, vales, and floods".

In 1713 he also contributed six or seven prose essays to the Guardian, Steele's paper. One of them is said to have helped in bringing about a split between pope and Addison.

Pope's translation of Homer brought Pope money and honour, but which is regarded as the least satisfactory achievement of his. His Iliad is dedicated to the retired dramatist, Congreve. It survived the controversies which in an alarming proportion had gathered round it and was considered as the ideal translation of the eighteenth century. It even now retains its hold on the public in spite of all the faults-its want of accuracy, its disregard for the spirit of the original, its artificiality, its monotony, and half a dozen others besides-that are contained in it. Iliad was completed at Cheswick, where Pope and his parents had moved from the sylvan retreats of Binfield. This great undertaking, it is said, had weighed heavily on him.

His Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady was published in 1717. This poem shows more tenderness than is found in any other of his works.

At Twickenham:

Pope's father died in 1718. He then shifted with his mother to Twickenham. Here he leased a small house by the river and five acres of land. His house consisted of a small hall paved with stone, and two small parlours on each side of the upper storey, having the same accommodation almost. The plot which lay opposite to his cottage was laid in the fashion of landscape-gardening. Here Lord Bolingbroke, Lord Peterborough, Swift, Gay and other friends paid visits to him. His health did not permit him to drink heavily at this time, but during his frequent visits to London he pretended to be a rake.

Lady Mary Wortley Montague, a blue-stocking, came to live at Twickenham in the same year as Pope, and within a short time, a fierce quarrel broke out between them. It is certain that in the beginning of 1728, Pope attacked her several times with the greatest grossness and brutality.

One of his least successful undertakings was his edition of Shakespeare, which appeared in 1725. In the seventeenth century four editions of Shakespeare appeared, none of them in any sense critical. Pope's edition of Shakespeare came in the wake of Rowe's, and whatever its faults, it had the merit of greatly increasing the interest of the people in the plays of Shakespeare. Pope knew too little of Elizabethan literature and was too much overpowered by the influences and standards of his own age to make a respectable editor, and his readings are by and large unsatisfactory. But to his credit goes the task of involuntarily rousing Lewis Theobald, (1688-1744) an unknown poet, but a textual critic of great ability, to undertake the task, not completed well by Pope himself.

In 1727-28 appeared three volumes of Miscellanies in Prose and Verse which was the joint work of Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot and Gay. It consists of burlesques on various literary forms. Dunciad, a poem whose history of its publication is rather complicated, was written not only as a part of a scheme, but as a direct effect of the publication of the Miscellanies. The poem is a burlesque epic, which is modelled on Dryden's Macflecknoe, but it is on a much larger scale. In his final form it consists of over 1750 lines as against Dryden's 217 and there is besides, the enormous apparatus of introductory essay, notes etc. The satire is admirably keen, but the joke is on too gigantic a scale. The poem is too malevolently cruel, besides it is coarse in no uncommon degree. The satire of Pope is often as nasty as it is incisive.

Lord Bolingbroke supplied with nearly all the raw material to Pope for his Essay on Man and suggestions for the general form of the poem, and the order in which the topics are to be treated. The poem aims to vindicate the ways of God to man by an appeal to reason and this is followed by a debate on man's place in nature his capacities, rights and duties. It also introduces a good case for what is called optimism, the doctrine that this is the best of all possible worlds. He has effectively and antithetically reinforced by the device of rhetoric, asserted that "whatever is right" and to imply that free-will, revelations, miracles and answers to prayer were all unreal. In spite of attacks and still more damaging defen­ces, the Essay on Man became the most popular moral poem ever written. Many translations were made of it into French, German, Italian and other languages, and Voltaire, Marmontel and Kant all paid tributes to it. The poem illustrates well that Pope had in a marvellous degree the ability to present his ides in a crisp, definite, musical and memorable way.

Pope had been in the meanwhile producing the Moral Essaysand the Satires. The Espile on Taste is addressed to Lord Burling­ton, (the first of the Moral Essays). The others in this series are on the Characters of Men, addressed to Lord Cohham (1733), on the Use of Riches to Lord Bathurst (1733) and on the Characters of Women (1735) addressed to Addison. The Satires fall between the years 1733 and 1738. They are introduced by the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot published in 1735. They all are an evidence of the fact that Pope's ability to say unpleasant things in a brilliant-manner was greater than evet at this time. He attacked his literary and personal enemies and many other persons. Cibber and Cyrill, Addison and Lord Harvey, Lady Many Wortley Montague, the Duke of Chandos and the Duchess of Marlborough, and lastly, King George himself, were all help up for contempt in a delight­fully ironic imitation of Horace's Epistle to Augustus.

Last years and Death; By this time Pope had lost most of his older friends. His mother to whom he was a most tender and devoted son after years of suffering expired in 1732. Gay also died in 1732, both Arbuthnot and Lord Peterborough in 1735. Lord Bolingbroke had settled-down in France, Swift was in Ireland and he was ill. Cyrill died in 1736. He had made a few new friends too. Whatever friends remained of old and whatever new friends he made, he kept up with them a steady correspondence. His life with the passage of time was getting lonelier, but his absorbing interest in poetry rescued him from an utter sense of desolation and despondancy. His health was breaking down day by day and reduced him to a state of abject dependence upon others. He could not rise and dress himself without help He was so sensitive to cold that he had to put on a number of clothes one over the other. One of his sides was contracted and his legs were so thin that he had to wear three pairs of stockings. He frequently suffered from severe headaches which were relieved by drinking coffee frequently. But his fiery spirit and energetic mind always assisted him to triumph over his physical weakness and religious handicaps. He worked persistently and in his later years produced some of his best works. His continuous and indefatigable pursuit of studies and composition of poetry caused a heavy strain on his failing health and it was now more than evident that his end was coming nearer and nearer. He distributed his latest work, Moral Epistles,among his friends, three weeks before his death, stating that "here I am, like Socrates, dispensing my morality amongst my friends, just as I am dying." He had a peaceful end on May 30th, 1744 and was buried in Twikenham church near the monument erected to his parents. He had an immense reputation at the time of his death and other poets of his age are at best only poetasters, when compared with him.