bizarre outfit.
8. Everyone was amazed at the writing style in what could have
been a horribly bland book.
9. The task is to examine whether these events were the re-
sults of a premeditated actions of one person or a group of
persons.
10. Experts will present American attitudes towards the solid
waste industry and efforts to change obsolete views and
stereotypes.
exeRCIse 53.
Find full homonyms in the following sentences. Explain their
meanings.
1. a) After valuation, experts band properties in groups of
£20,000 or more. b) Tonight the entertainment includes a
disco and live band.
2. a) The group’s research has done much to advance our
knowledge of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. b) Could
you distribute copies well in advance before the meeting?
3. a) The morning light came streaming in through the win-
dows. b) People who have suffered light exposure to radia-
tion still have to have regular medical check-up.
4. a) The dogs usually bark at strangers. b) The bark of the birch
is used to make utensil.
Systenatic .Character .of .the .Vocabulary: .Synonyms, .Antonyms, .Homonums
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5. a) She was afraid she wouldn’t be able to bear the pain. b)
The bear has thick fur and eats flesh, fruit, and insects.
6. a) Ann would like to dash into the room, to grab her bag, and
to run out again. b) The dash is used in writing to separate
two closely related parts of a sentence.
7. a) She looked around at the sea of faces in the cafeteria. b)
The President faces the difficult task of putting the economy
back on its feet.
8. a) The plot is a festival of conspiracies involving the Nazis,
Soviets, the CIA and LSD, plus some oddly convenient hurri-
cane. b) He was called from the right bank in the blessed plot
of the tree.
exeRCIse 54.
Find homophones in the sentences. Use them in different context
by building new sentences.
1. a) Some people never forget insults and wait for the hour
of revenge. b) Bill wants to spend a large sum of money on
modernizing the farm.
2. a) You can buy jeans in every colour under the sun. b) In
those days, the property went to the oldest son.
3. a) To be able to live fully in the here and now, one must first
learn how to honour the past. b) There’s a nasty infection
going round, so I hear.
4. a) The branch was too weak to support his weight. b) The
Reids are coming for dinner a week from Sunday.
5. a) The old sailor preferred bitter to light beer. b) I’m glad
you’ve arrived – we could all do with a little light relief.
6. a) To keep sales of expensive eyewear brisk in this economy,
the company will have to continue to reinvent its products
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and itself. b) The government, the minister emphasized, is
concentrating on taking further steps to make sure the econ-
omy sails in safe waters.
exeRCIse 55.
Find homographs in the sentences. Use them in different context
by building new sentences.
1. a) Many of the party’s traditional voters can suddenly desert
it at the election. b) The plane crash-landed in the desert. No
survivors were found.
2. a) He had just had a row with his wife? What was the row
about? b) The children were asked to stand in a row and to
dance samba.
3. a) “Please, don’t talk like that”, Ellen implored him, her eyes
filling with tears. b) She carefully tears the paper.
4. a) This is done with a formal bow to the king or queen. b) A
bow is used for shooting arrows, made of long thin piece of
wood held in a curve by a tight string.
5. a) The content of the media course includes scripting, ed-
iting and camera work. b) Not content with her new car,
Selina now wants a bike.
exeRCIse 56.
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