Thesaurus

decorating: ( adj) ornamental; ( n)

unfeeling, unkind, stony, insensitive, hastily, unthinkingly, passingly, decoration.

grim. ANTONYMS: ( adj) kind,

automaticly, fleetingly. ANTONYM:

decorum: ( n) propriety, gentility,

caring, hearted, warmhearted,

( adv) thoroughly.

decorousness, dignity, fitness,

compassionate, softhearted, merciful, protruding: ( adj) obtrusive, projecting, manners, correctness, ceremony,

sympathetic, concerned, flattering,

jutting, protrusive, salient, projected,

properness, politeness, grace.

generous.

bulging, protuberant, noticeable,

ANTONYMS: ( n) impoliteness,

jeweler: ( n) goldsmith, shaper,

sticking out, proposed.

rudeness, informality, indecorum,

merchandiser, maker, merchant,

threateningly: ( adv) sinisterly,

impropriety, indecency, corruption,

silversmith, jewelry maker.

ominously, seriously, warningly,

abandon, vulgarity.

perfunctorily: ( adv) superficially,

perilously, gloomily, dangerously,

heartless: ( adj) hardhearted, ruthless,

automatically, carelessly, as a

minatorily, grimly, minaciously,

cruel, pitiless, obdurate, merciless,

formality, involuntarily, quickly,

loweringly.

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Pygmalion

[ELIZA %smiles for the first time; expresses her feelings by a wild pantomime in which an imitation of Higgins's exit is confused with her own triumph; and finally goes down on her knees on the hearthrug to look for the ring.]

Thesaurus

confused: ( adj) abashed, baffled,

come.

pantomime: ( n, v) gesture; ( n) dumb

befuddled, bemused, dizzy, chaotic, feelings: ( n) emotions, opinion, show, mummery, acting, playacting,

confounded, deranged, incoherent,

bosom, emotion, thought, reputation, performing, playing, pantomimist; disjointed, indistinct. ANTONYMS:

honor, feeling, sentiments, thoughts,

( v) mimic, roleplay, playact.

( adj) enlightened, orderly, alert,

manner.

triumph: ( v) exult, prevail, crow,

clearheaded, organized, oriented,

Imitation: ( adj, n) fake, sham,

rejoice, succeed; ( n, v) glory, win, joy;

precise, systematic, ordered,

reproduction; ( n) dummy, forgery,

( n) victory, conquest, exultation.

unimpressed, methodical.

mockery, copy, emulation; ( n, v)

ANTONYMS: ( n) failure, defeat,

exit: ( n) departure, door, egress, outlet, parody; ( adj) false, bogus.

sorrow, unhappiness, dud, sadness,

going, gate, way out; ( v) leave, go, go ANTONYMS: ( adj) genuine, real, loss, flop; ( v) fail, lose, forfeit.

out, die. ANTONYMS: ( n) arrival,

natural; ( n) original, formalism.

entry, entrance, greeting; ( v) arrive, knees: ( n) knee.

George Bernard Shaw

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A C T V

[Mrs. Higgins's drawing-room. She is at her writing-table as before. The Parlor-Maid comes in.]

THE PARLOR-MAID

[at the door] Mr. Henry, mam, is downstairs with Colonel Pickering.%

MRS. HIGGINS.

Well, show them up.

THE PARLOR-MAID.

They're using the telephone, mam. Telephoning to the police, I think.

MRS. HIGGINS.

What!

THE PARLOR-MAID

[coming further in and lowering her voice] Mr. Henry's in a state, mam. I thought I'd better tell you.

MRS. HIGGINS.

If you had told me that Mr. Henry was not in a state it would have been more surprising. Tell them to come up when they've finished with the police. I suppose he's lost something.