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love - an intense feeling of deep affection, worship - the feeling of profound reverence and strong adoration. Emotive charge, expressiveness and intensity are different.
Confidence - assurance; to satisfy - to delight; alone - lonely; to create - to manufacture; to blush - to redden; to tremble - to shudder. State the difference in the pragmatic aspect of meaning of the given synonyms. Consult a dictionary.
Model: to see - to behold. The verb to behold is formal, whereas the verb to see is neutral. Car - automobile; refreshment - bite; soldier - warrior; to begin - to commence; face - puss; to leave - to abandon; hearty - cordial, hand - fin; to cry - to weep. Look up in a dictionary meanings of the given pairs of synonyms. Classify synonyms into stylistic, ideographic and ideographic-stylistic.
Model: mum - mother. The words have the same denotational meaning 'a female parent', but they differ in the pragmatic aspect of meaning as the word mum is informal. Thus, this pair of synonyms belongs to the group of stylistic synonyms. Information - data; associate - pal; infectious - contagious; to ask - to interrogate; to meet - to encounter; to reckon - to estimate; faculty - talent; to foretell - to predict; to walk - to promenade; blemish - flaw; heaven - sky; intelligent - smart; affair - business. Find the synonymic dominant in the following groups of synonyms. to glimmer - to glisten - to blaze - to shine - to sparkle - to flash - to gleam;
to glare - to gaze - to peep - to look - to stare - to glance;
to astound - to surprise - to amaze - to puzzle - to astonish;
strange - quaint - odd - queer;
to saunter - to stroll - to wander - to walk - to roam;
scent - perfume - smell - odour - aroma;
to brood - to reflect - to meditate - to think;
to fabricate - to manufacture - to produce - to create - to make;
furious - enraged - angry;
to sob - to weep - to cry. From the sentences given below write out the synonyms in groups and classify them into: a) synonyms differentiated by the connotation of duration; synonyms differentiated by the connotation of degree or intensity; c) synonyms differentiated by the causative connotation. Explain the reasons for your decisions. He shuddered at the thought of a meeting that lay before him. 2. The whole situation, he tells me, was extraordinary, like that of an African explorer who, endeavouring to ignore one of the local serpents, find himself exchanging glances with a man-eating tiger. 3. He merely blushed and said that he was jolly well going to go, because this girl was in Cannes. 4. Gosh, how I used to admire you at the dear old school. You were my hero. 5. What I really want is a meal. 6. That is the trouble about Cannes in August - it becomes very mixed. You get there splendid chaps who were worshipped by their schoolmates 7. He resents their cold stare. 8. Her voice was trembling with excitement. 9. He made a short speech in French, and the mothers all applauded, and the babies all yelled. The girl was shivering with cold. 11. I must confess I am a little surprised. 12. “A truck driver”, shouted someone from the audience. 13. “You have settled it!” cried the astonished parent. 14. The audience roared with laughter. He was speaking for half an hour or so. 15. His face reddened, he could hardly keep his temper. 16. “I adore you, Mary”, he said. 17. His eyes glittered with malice. 18. She would have liked to go herself but couldn't. 19. His eyes were blazing as he heard how cruelly the children had been treated. 20. I was perfectly amazed that one man, all by himself, should have been able to beat down and capture such battalions of practised fighters. 21. His eyes sparkled with happiness.
Write out synonymic groups and classify them into: a) synonyms differentiated by evaluative connotations; b) synonyms differentiated by connotation of manner.
1. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! 2. His eyes sparkled with amusement. 3. “Joey - Joey...!” I said staggering unevenly towards the peacock. 4. Betty would have liked to peep in but could not. 5. Presently I saw a man strolling along. 6. Her eyes glittered with hatred. 7. Those artisans produce pottery with great skill. 8. He was a well-known scientist. 9. It's getting late, so I must trot away. 10. The boy was peering into a dark room. 11. He swaggered along the corridor, evidently in high spirits. 12. The will was fabricated. There was a picture of a celebrated painter on the wall. Within the following synonymic groups single out words with emotive connotations. fear - terror - horror; 2. look - stare - glare - gaze - glance; 3. love - admire - adore - worship; 4. alone - single - solitary - lonely; 5. tremble - shiver - shudder - shake; 6. wish - desire - yearn - long. Here are ten pairs of words that are often confused. Fill the blank spaces in these sentences. Make sentences to show that you understand the difference in the meanings of paronyms. continual: regularly, periodically repeated continuous: without break, uninterrupted The man in the audience ... interrupted the speakers.
It showed ... for five hours. human: characteristic of men and women humane: tender, kind, compassionate The medical students are studying physiology.
The commander of the camp made sure that the prisoners were treated ... ingenious: clever, inventive ingenuous: candid, honest It was such an ... device that it even shit itself off.
The waitress had an ... manner that reminded us of our 5-year-old daughter. affect: influence or change effect: bring out How does the weather you?
We’re trying to ... reconciliation between the two sides. tasteful: showing or exhibiting good sense or judgement tasty: delicious, flavourful Her ... clothes contrasted with his gaudy ones.
This is a ... stew: what’s in it? healthful: conducive to good health healthy: possessing good health This is a ... climate - clean air and plenty of sun.
They had a ... attitude about life. Her body was ... too, from good exercises and a proper diet. respectably: in a manner worthy of respect and esteem respectfully: with respect or honour, in ways that show high regard Because he was wearing blue jeans, they told him he was not dressed ... enough to enter the cathedral.
His wife asked ... the bishop if he would change his mind. crash: fall or strike suddenly, violently or noisily
crush: press, be pressed so that there is breaking or injury The bus ... into a tree.
He ... the paper cup and threw it away. arise: come into existence; be noticed arouse: awaken His behaviour might ... suspicion.
A new difficulty has ... conscious: the consciousness within oneself of the choice one ought to make between right and wrong
