conscientious: guided by one’s sense of duty conscience: awake, aware consciousness: being conscious
He is a student.
I’ll do it with a clear ...
He didn’t recover/ regain ... until two hours after the accident.
They were ... of being watched.
Give antonyms to the following words. Group them into antonyms of the same root (a) and antonyms of different roots (b).
Model: artistic.
The antonym of the word artistic is inartistic. These words belong to the group of antonyms of the same root (group a).
Happy (adj), careful (adj), dwarf (adj), obedience (n), criticism (n), above (adv), regular (adj), asleep (adj), back (adv), polite (adj), triumph (n), hope (n), artistic (adj), appear (v), prewar (adj), far (adv), logical (adj), love (n), known (adj).
Classify antonymous pairs into contradictories, contraries and incompatibles. To prove the division give intermediate members of the antonymous set where it is necessary, or give other members of the group which are excluded in the given antonymous pair.
Model: arid - awash. These antonyms refer to the group of contraries as they are polar members of a gradual opposition which has the following intermediate members: dry - wet.
Poetry - prose, inch - foot, man - woman, old - young, beautiful - ugly, Monday - Sunday, teacher - pupil, to adore - to loathe, one - thousand, tremendous - tiny, iron - copper, to accept - to reject, round - square, creditor - debtor, immaculate - filthy, boy - man, day - night, clever - stupid, red - brown, arid - awash, inside - outside, open - shut, November - March, evil - good.
Pick out antonyms from these sentences and arrange them into three groups: 1. contradictories; 2. contraries; 3. incompatibles.
“Is he fair or dark?” - “Neither”. - “Is he tall or short?” - “Average, I should say”. - “Are you trying to irritate me?” - “No, he’s just ordinary. There’s nothing in him to attract your attention. He’s neither plain nor good-looking”.
It is difficult enough to fix a tent in dry weather, in wet, the task becomes Herculean.
If you don’t go, she said wiping the wet table dry before setting the cloth, I’ll tell your dad when he comes.
I’m telling you the truth. Why should I tell you a lie?
Masters came in and Masters went and gay, who was telling us that port did not agree with him, applied himself to the nuts.
It may be that when I’m through I shall have something to give that people will be glad to take.
To her, men were good or bad.
Her soul which was black as night, is no pure and white like the new- fallen snow.
Such a clock is the real master of the house; he orders the coming s and goings, the downsittings and uprisings of his votaries.
However much or little she knows, she has never, in my experience, displayed either for profit or for effect any detailed acquaintance with the little world that circulates round her shop.
Well, most of us suppose that this is the anniversary of my wedding day and my thoughts have been much occupied with the ups and downs, the fortunes and misfortunes of married life.
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