Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

VII. Analyse the vocabulary of ‘the following; indicate the type and 
function of stylistically coloured units. 
1. “What the hell made you take on a job like that?' “A regrettable necessity for 
cash. I can assure you I doesn’t suit my temperament.” Jimmy grinned. “Never a hog 
for regular work, were you?” (Ch.) 
2. “You’ll probably see me at a loss for one to-night.’ “I bet. But you’ll stick to 
me, won’t you?” “Like a bloody leech, man.” (K. A.) 
3. At the counter of the Greek Confectionery Parlour while they ate dreadful 
messes of decayed bananas, acid cherries, whipped cream, and gelatinous ice-cream, 
the; screamed to one another: “Hey, lemme’ lone,” “Quit dog gone you, looka what 
you went and done, you almost 20 I'll led my glass swaler,” “Like hell I did,” “Heygol 
darn your hide, don’t you go sticking your coffinh nail in my ice- ream,” “Oh you 
Batty, how juh like dancing with Tilly McGuire last night? Some squeezing, hell, 
kid?” (S. L.) 
4. “Listen, you son of a bitch,” he said feeling an icy calm that was a flaming 
rapture of abandon. “Keep your Ii; yap away from me, or I’ll sow it shut for you.” (J.) 
5. “Now that the g. d. war is over and you probably v a lot of time over there, 
how about sending the kids a «couple of bayonets or Swastikas . . (S.) 
6. Roma abandoned herself to the fascinations of the scene, and her gaiety 
infected everybody. “Camillo, you must tell me who they all are. There now those 
men who come first in black and red?” “Laymen,” said the young Roman. “They’re 
called the “The Apostolis Cursori. When a Cardinal is nominated they take 
him the news, and get two or three thousand francs for their trouble.” 
“Good for them! And those fine fellows in tight black vestment like Spanish 
bullfighters?” The Mazzieri! They carry the mace to clear the way.” “Go on, Camillo 
mio.” Those men in the long black robes are lawyers of the Apostolis palace.” 

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And this dear old friar with the mittens and rosary “I the comfortable linsey-
woolsey sort of face?” That’s Father Pifferi of San Lorenzo, confessor to the Pope. He 
knows all the Pope’s sins ... He is a Capucin and those Frati in different colours 
coming behind him ... know them: see if I don’t”, she cried, as there passed inlei the 
balcony a double file of friars and monks nearly alike fat, ungainly, flabby, puffy 
specimens of human – “arrying torches of triple candles, and telling their ids as they 
walked”. (H. C.) 
7. “Nicholas, my dear, recollect yourself”, remonstrated Nickleby. 
“Dear Nicholas, pray”, urged the young lady. 
Mold your tongue, Sir,” said Ralph. (D.). 
8. When Mr. and Mrs. Sunbury went to bed on the ii: hl of Herbert’s twenty-
first birthday, and in passing in TV say that Mrs. Sunbury never went to bed, she 
retired, “I Mr. Sunbury who was not quite so refined as his wife always said: “Me for 
Bedford” ... (S. M.) 
9. There are many ways to do this and you learn most of them. But the jerks 
and twerps, the creeps and the squares and the strips flourish and seem, with the ne 
antibiotics, 
to 
have 
attained 
a 
sort 
of 
creeping 
immortality 
while people that you care for die publicly or anonymously each month. (H.) 
10. “Now take fried, crocked, squiffed, loaded, plastered, blotto, tiddled, 
soaked, boiled, stinko, oiled, polluted.” 
“Yes,” I said. 
“That’s 
the 
next 
set 
of 
words 
I 
am 
decreasing 
m; 
vocabulary by,” said Atherton. “Tossing them all out if favor of” 
“Intoxicated,” I supplied. 
“I favor drunk” said Atherton. “It’s shorter and monosyllabic, even though it 
may sound a little harsher to the squeamish-minded”. 
“But there are degrees of difference,” I objected. 

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“Just being tiddled isn’t the same as being blotto, or “When you get into the 
vocabulary-decreasing business,” he interrupted, “you don’t bother with 
technicalities. You throw out the whole kit and caboodle, I mean whole bunch,” he 
hastily corrected himself. (P. G. W.)