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Section 2
VOCABULARY FOCUS
 2.1. Essential Vocabulary
bright, a.
1. shining, sparking, full of light (as the bright sun, light, a bright room) ‘яскравий, сліпучий, ясний’.
e. g. 1) For nearly ten minutes he stood there, motionless, with parted lips and eyes strongly bright. (O. Wilde) 2) There was plenty to do during the fresh bright days after the rains. (Prichard)
2. of a merry colour, brilliant ‘яскравий’.
e. g. The girl wore a bright summer dress. (Len Doherty)
3. witty, clever; lively, cheerful ‘дотепний,розумний; пожвавлений, веселий’.
e. g. But you, Dorian, with your pure, bright, innocent face… - I can’t believe anything against you. (O. Wilde)
Ant. dull.
brightly, adv.
in a bright way ‘яскраво; ясно; дотепно; жваво’.
e. g. She kissed away George to school in the morning smiling brightly after him. (Thackeray)
brighten, v. t. & i.
to grow or to make bright, to clear up ‘проясняти(ся),кращати’.
e. g. 1) Septimus’s face brightened: “This,” said he “is quite a different thing.”
(W. Locke)
2) … as the day brightened and the room filled with sunlight he became more and more restlessly wakeful. (Carter)
brightness, n.
brilliance ‘яскравість, блиск’.
e. g. She has the mechanical brightness of a woman who is desperately hanging onto the remains of her youth. (Maugham)
darkness, n. see dark, n.
dark, a.
1. without light ‘темний’.
e. g. Through a dark apartment… Malone followed the speaker into a light and bright room within. (Ch. Bronte)