Practice: Task 33

Find the compound words in the contexts:

1. The officers looked up from his great-grandfather's pocket-watch, which they were examining apprecia­tively(P.Highsmith). 2. It was a flimsy and weather-worn affair with a few moribund penny-in-the-slot machines placed at far distant intervals (A. Christie).

3. Things did not improve when a rumour started that will-o'-the-wisps had been seen in the woods and in that patch of fenced-off land (Ph. Carr).

4. And then they came rattling and clanking into the stone-flagged hall - a round dozen jack-booted, lob­ster-coated troopers of the Tangiers Regiment, led by a sturdy, blackbrowed fellow with a deal of gold lасе about the breast of his coat (R. Sabatini).

5. On the bed - it was rumpled, but it had the counter­pane on it - lay a scattering of sheets of paper, written on in longhand, and a black-and-white-marbled note­book (P. Highsmith).

6. Her list of wanted birthday presents had included a live pony, a pair of roller skates, high-heeled shoes of her very own, a make-up kit with real lipstick, a record player and records, and a dear little monkey to play with, and any or all of these things might be in the off­ing (Sh. Jackson).

7. Children dashed in and out of the rain, to the puddles under the dismal yew-trees, across the wet flagstones of the kitchen, whilst the cleaning-woman grumbled and scolded; children were swarming on the sofa, chil­dren were kicking the piano in the parlour, to make it sound like a beehive, children were rolling on the hear- thrug, legs in air, pulling a book in two between them, children, fiendish, ubiquitous, were stealing upstairs to find out where our Ursula was, whispering at bedroom doors, hanging on the latch, calling mysteri­ously "Ursula! Ursula!" to the girl who had locked her­self in to read (D.H. Lawrence).

8. John Ferris awoke in a room in a New York hotel. He had the feeling that something unpleasant was await­ing him - what it was, he did not know. The feeling, submerged by matinal necessities, lingered even after he had dressed and gone downstairs. It was a cloud­less autumn day and the pale sunlight sliced between the pastel skyscrapers. Ferris went into the next-door drugstore and sat at the end booth next to the window glass that overlooked the sidewalk. He ordered an American breakfast with scrambled eggs and sausage (C. McCullers).

Task 34

Match the compound and its meaning:

1. cocktail a) a yeoman of the English royal guard or a warder of the Tower of London

2. ducktail b) an informer; a person who be trays, denies, or abandons his or her 3.bobtail associates, social group, Beliefs 4. dogfish c) an alcoholic drink consisting of a spirit or spirits mixed with fruit juice, 5. rosefish etc.

6. dogrose d) a North Atlantic rockfish used for food

7. cheesecake e) a small thin sponge cake

8. cheese-eater f) a long thin green vegetable from southern countries (a tropical plant 9. beefcake with green seed pods eaten as a vegetable)

10.beefeater g) a kind of small shark 11. lady's-slipper h) a short or docked tail

12. ladyfinger i) pictures of women with shapely bodies, especially as used in

13. lady's fingers advertisements

14. lady's-thumb j) a smartweed having pink or purplish flowers and lance-shaped leaves with a spot re­sembling a thumbprint

k) a wild rose having pink or white flowers

1) a type of wild or garden orchid with a flower shaped like a pouch

m) a male hairstyle, in which the hair is slicked back on both sides to overlap at the back of the head

n) pictures of strong muscular men, especially as used in ad­vertisements or sex magazines