Vocabulary Exercises

I. Translate the following word combinations from English into Russian:

close mourner, to resort to terror, the heroic death of his father, to explode a bomb, to defuse a bomb, deafening explosion, to injure badly, to eliminate poverty, inhuman living conditions, outright insanity.

II. Translate the following words and word combinations from Russian into English:

представлять себе, устранять, умопомешательство, человек, пострадавший от несчастного случая, стереть с земли, скорбеть, нетерпеливый, разбрасывать, судорога, выставлять охрану, носилки, проводить политику расовой дискриминации, покрывать броней.

III. Arrange the following words in pairs of synonyms. Use them in sentences of your own:

repayment, demonstration, obliterate, eliminate, retaliation, harm, fear, victim, protest, insanity, frustrate, terror, eradicate, cancel, weeper, casualty, mourner, disappoint, mental derangement, damage.

IV. Arrange the following words in pairs of antonyms. Use them in sentences of your own.

retribution, fanaticism, pardon, eliminate, cancel, misunderstand, include, apathetism, ratify, rejoice, wreckage, container, mourn, conceive.

V. Choose the proper word from the active vocabulary.

shout-scream

1. “Help me”, - she ___

2. The crowd ___ slogans and threw stones at the police.

3. I can hear you all right; there`s no need ___.

4. She ___ for help.

5. The baby ___ when touching the hot.

6. We ___with laughter on her joke.

terror-horror

1. The criminal was the ___ of the neighbourhood.

2. The resistance movement started a ___ campaign against the colonial regime.

3. Your son is in real ___. Can you control him?

4. The news of the plane crash filled us with ___.

5. I cried out in ___ on seeing him fall in front of the car.

6. It`s difficult to describe the ___of their lives.

damage-injure

1. The crops were seriously ___by the flood.

2. What`s the ___?

3. His speech will do a lot of ___to his political reputation.

4. His knee is ___, he can`t play.

5. She was badly ___ in the accident.

6. Mary were not killed, some were ___in the catastrophe.

to give up-to give in

1. The plan is unworkable and we`v got to ___it.

2. She will never ___ the idea of working on her own.

3. He knew if he ___ to his boss, the research would be put off.

4. A long mother is infrequently not inclined to ___to her children.

VI. Complete the text using the words below.

Defeat / defense department / dictator / enemy / lieutenant general / military exercise / navy / troops / victory

This summer the US a___ staged the biggest b___ in history with more than 13,000 c___ taking part in the “invasion” of an d___ country in the Middle East. All the American armed forces were involved in this war rehearsal with representatives form the army, e___ air force and marine. In the end the US military “lost” the conflict to a former f___ called Paul Van Riper, who was playing the role of the Iraqi g___, Saddam Hussein. However, military officials at the Pentagon refused to admit their h___ and ended the war game with a US i___ on August 15.

(By Janet Hardy-Gould From Guardian Weekly)