The following is a longword-length analysis of a speech given by Late American President Mr. Theodore Roosevelt.
This particular address is famous as 'muck-rake' address.
This speech is worthy of study, whether we agree with the views of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt or not.
The verb 'muck-rake' refers to mudslinging. Mr. Roosevelt was, somehow, peeved at the binge of mudslinging that was going on in political circles. He was trying in the speech, to chastise the muck-rakers.
Here, I present a long-word analysis of words lengthier than 11 letters (12 letters and more).
16-20 long letter words are conspicuously absent.
I feel that he had not used any rare words. Exception : penitentiary. It refers to a correction home or jail.
How would Mr. Theodore Roosevelt have reacted, if he were alive today, in the midst of great global corruption?
Was he worse than today's business tycoons and politicians?
STUDY THE FOLLOWING
12-LETTERED-WORDS
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,| consistently |
,| untruthfully |
,| whitewashing |
,| unscrupulous, penitentiary |
,| illegitimate |
,| condemnation |
,| indifference |
,| discriminate |
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oscillations, acquiescence |
,| significance |
,| immeasurable |
,| emotionalism |
,| transmission |
,| corporations |
,| incalculable |
,| immeasurably |
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,| extraordinary |
,| misunderstand |
,| understanding |
,| sensitiveness |
,| indispensable |
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disinterested |
,| determination |
,| impracticable |
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indiscriminate |
,| indiscriminate |
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sensationalism |
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Ecclesiastical |
,| rebelliousness |
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generalizations |
,| dissatisfaction |
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superintendence |
,| superintendence |
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,| 1:- | .
At the risk of
repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the
most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big
business man who makes or spends his fortune in ______________gitimate or corrupt ways..
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| 2:- | .
One of the chief
counts against those who make indiscriminate assault upon men in business or men
in public life is that they invite a reaction which is sure to tell powerfully
in favor of the ______________crupulous scoundrel who really ought to be attacked, who
ought to be exposed, who ought, if possible, to be put in the penitentiary ..
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| 3:- | .
The fool who has
not sense to ______________inate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as
dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad..
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| 4:- | . Again, the national government must in some form exercise supervision
over ______________ngaged in interstate business-and all large corporations
engaged in interstate business-whether by license or otherwise, so as to permit
us to deal with the far reaching evils of overcapitalization..
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| 5:- | . Bad though a state of hysterical
excitement is, and evil though the results are which come from the violent ______________ions such excitement invariably produces, yet a sodden acquiescence in
evil is even worse..
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| 6:- | . If it seeks to
establish a line of cleavage, not along the line which divides good men from
bad, but along that other line, running at right angles thereto, which divides
those who are well off from those who are less well off, then it will be fraught
with ______________le harm to the body politic..
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| 7:- | . If they fail to get their way they will still do ______________arm by provoking the kind of reaction which in its revolt against the senseless
evil of their teaching would enthrone more securely than ever the evils which
their misguided followers believe they are attacking..
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| 8:- | . It puts a premium upon knavery ______________untruthfully to attack
an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with
untruth..
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| 9:- | . Such taxation should, of course, be aimed merely at the inheritance
or ______________in their entirety of those fortunes swollen beyond all healthy
limits..
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| 10:- | . The
soul of every scoundrel is gladdened whenever an honest man is assailed, or even
when a scoundrel is ______________ntruthfully assailed..
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| 11:- | . There results a general attitude either of
cynical belief in and ______________erence to public corruption or else of a distrustful
inability to discriminate between the good and the bad..
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| 12:- | . To assail the great and
admitted evils of our political and industrial life with such crude and sweeping
generalizations as to include decent men in the general ______________mnation means the
searing of the public con science..
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| 13:- | . We should ______________ in the sharpest way between fortunes well won
and fortunes ill won.
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| 14:- | . Yet he also typifies the
man who in this life ______________ consistently refuses to see aught that is lofty, and fixes
his eyes with solemn intentness only on that which is vile and debasing..
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| 15:- | . and both the interested
individuals who need ______________itewashing and those others who practice mud slinging
like to encourage such confusion of ideas..
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| 16:- | . but we appreciate also
that the things of the soul are ______________e important..
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| 17:- | . violent ______________m leads to exhaustion..
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| 18:- | .It turns into a mere crusade of appetite against appetite, of a contest
between the brutal greed of the "have nots" and the brutal greed of the "haves,"
then it has no ______________nce for good, but only for evil..
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,| 1:- | .
This truth should be kept
constantly in mind by every free people desiring to preserve the sanity and
poise ______________rmanent success of self-government..
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Now, it is easy to
twist out of shape what I have just said, easy to affect to ______________
and if it is slurred over in repetition not difficult really to misunderstand
it..
| ,| 3:- | .
So far as this
movement of agitation throughout the country takes the form of a fierce
discontent with evil, of a ______________the authors of evil, whether
in industry or politics, the feeling is to be heartily welcomed as a sign of
healthy life..
| ,| 4:- | . Gross and
reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine,
or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act
as a profound deterrent to able men of normal ______________nd to prevent
them from entering the public service at any price..
| ,| 5:- | . No honesty will make a public man useful if that man is
timid or foolish, if he is a hot-headed zealot or an ______________lt.
| ,| 6:- | . Some persons are sincerely incapable of ______________to denounce mud
slinging does not mean the endorsement of whitewashing.
| ,| 7:- | . The men
with the muck rakes are often ______________well being of society.
| ,| 8:- | . There is any
amount of good in the world, and there never was a time when loftier and more ______________ the betterment of mankind was being done than now..
| ,| 9:- | . We now administer the affairs of a nation in which the ______________owth of population has been outstripped by the growth of wealth in complex
interests..
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An epidemic of ______________n character does no good, but very great harm..
| ,| 2:- | .
Hysterical ______________t weapon wherewith to fight for lasting
righteousness..
| ,| 3:- | .
In his ______________ne old Elizabethan divine, Bishop Hooker, wrote:
He that goeth about
to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be
shall never want attentive and favorable hearers, because they know the manifold
defects whereunto every kind of regimen is subject, but the secret lets and
difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they
have not ordinarily the judgment to consider..
| ,| 4:- | .
One of the chief
counts against those who make ______________ men in business or men
in public life is that they invite a reaction which is sure to tell powerfully
in favor of the unscrupulous scoundrel who really ought to be attacked, who
ought to be exposed, who ought, if possible, to be put in the penitentiary..
| ,| 5:- | . It is of the utmost importance for our future that this should prove to
be not the unrest of mere ______________f mere dissatisfaction
with the inevitable inequality of conditions, but the unrest of a resolute and
eager ambition to secure the betterment of the individual and the nation..
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,| 1:- | . It is of the utmost importance for our future that this should prove to
be not the unrest of mere rebelliousness against life, of mere ______________able inequality of conditions, but the unrest of a resolute and
eager ambition to secure the betterment of the individual and the nation..
| ,| 2:- | . To assail the great and
admitted evils of our political and industrial life with such crude and sweeping ______________ecent men in the general condemnation means the
searing of the public con science..
| ,| 3:- | . and it will amount to a great deal more in
so far as it is taken as a first step in the direction of a policy of ______________corporate wealth engaged in interstate
commerce.
| ,| 4:- | . this ______________ be exercised in a spirit of
malevolence toward the men who have created the wealth, but with the firm
purpose both to do justice to them and to see that they in their turn do justice
to the public at large..
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