4. Match the words with opposite meaning:

glib bustle flit stiffness indisposed vaguely strident meticulousness

tranquility settle negligence forwardness clear smooth sound taciturn

5. Give the derivatives where possible:

Verb	Noun	Adjective/Participle	Adverb
		flurried
stumble
quarrel
		amusing
	unselfishness
		swift
	radiance
			excitedly
		lustrous

6. Fill in the blanks with the words given bellow that go with the meaning of the sentences in a proper grammar form:

Wife, brisk, quirk, ingenuous, clot, irremediable, brokenly, to recuperate, mannish, scrivening, sufficiently, gravel, gasp.

1. His wife had had a baby some six months before and was still _____ at her mother's in New York.

2. Roxanne made a ­­____ gesture toward a dilapidated structure on the right.

3. He was ­­­___ spoiled to be charming; she was ___ enough to be irresistible.

4. Jeffrey Curtain kept at ­­___ for twoscore years he could not have put a ___ into one of his stories weirder than the quirk that came into his own life.

5. There were two tables, and a good proportion of the young ___ were smoking and shouting their bets, and being very daringly ___ for those days.

6. There was a general ___.

7. Out in their car under the harvest moon he talked ___.

8. A blood ___the size of a marble had broken his brain.

9. There was a crunch on the ___, a car turning into the drive.

10. She was too expensive that was the ___ difficulty.

7. Insert prepositions or adverbs if necessary:

1. Both their eyes filled ___ tears and they whispered love there ___ the broad night as the serene streets ___ Marlowe sped ____.

2. There was no attempt to pass it ___easily.

3. Jeffrey was to take a week ___ all work was simply to loll, and sleep, and go on long walks until this nervousness left him.

4. Five days later, in the first cool ___ late afternoon, Jeffrey picked ___ an oak chair and sent it crashing ___ his own front window.

5. A week later Harry appeared ___ Marlowe, arrived unexpectedly ___ five o'clock, and coming ___ the walk sank ___ a porch chair ___ a state ___ exhaustion.

6. All ____ once he collapsed ___ his chair and covered his face ___ his hands.

7. He wanted to throw her ___ and kick ___ her to tell ___ her she was a cheat and a leech that she was dirty.

8. He reached ___ the wall for another biscuit and ___ an effort pulled it ___, nail and all.

9. It was the girl's day ___ and Kitty had lain ___ her room eating chocolate drops.

10. There was no love ___ the woman except, strangely enough, ___ life, ___ the people ___ the world, ___ the tramp ___ whom she gave food she could ill afford to the butcher who sold her a cheap cut ___ steak ___ the meaty board.