2)Find the homophones to the following words and translate them into Russian.

Heir, dye, cent, sea, week, peace, sun, meat, steel, night, some, coarse, right, sight.

3)Find the homographs to the following words and translate both.

To bow – to bend the head or body, wind – air in motion, to tear – to pull apart by force, bear – a large, heavy animal with rough hair, to desert – to go away from a person or place.

Seminar 5 Synonyms and Antonyms. Archaisms and Neologisms

1. Speak on the following topics.

1. Synonyms.

2. Antonyms

3. Lexical variants and paronyms

4. Archaisms

5. Neologisms

II. Do the following assignments. Synonyms and Antonyms

Assignment 1.

Discriminate between Synonyms in the Following Synonymic Groups and Point Out a Synonymic Dominant:

Anger – indignation – wrath – fire – rage – fury

Mad – maniac(al) – crazy – crazed – insane – demented (сумасшедший)– deranged (behaving in a strange and uncontrolled way, often as a result of a mental illness)

Apartment – flat – rooms – lodgings – chambers (палата, салон, гостиная)– quarters (rooms or houses provided for people especially soldiers and their families) – tenement (a large building divided into a lot of small flats that can be rent cheaply)

Assignment 2.

Find out the meanings of the following synonyms and prove that synonyms have a dual nature

To shiver – to shake - to tremble - to shudder – to quiver

smell – scent – odour – aroma

weak – feeble – fragile

to discuss – to argue – to debate – to dispute

She was shaking with joy. His legs were shaking with fatigue. Her body was shaking with sobs. His hand shook as he was filling the glass. The old house shook in the storm.

The dark frightened her and her hands trembled. Trembling, she clung to Magnus’s arm. His hands trembled with oversmoking. He trembled at the sound of bursting bombs. She was all out of breath as she rang the bell with trembling fingers.

I was quivering and tingling from head to foot. She finished breathless, quivering all over with the effort of keeping her voice controlled. The boy’s lips quivered as he tried not to cry. Sister Conrick put an arm around Mrs.Lambert’s quivering shoulders and held the woman to her as though she was a frightened child.

She shivered at the sound of the bell. He came into the house snow-covered and shivering. Such thoughts may make you shiver at first.

She shuddered with disgust at the thought of his coming back. She shrank down to the floor I n terror and loathing and shuddered.

Assignment 3.

Within the following synonymic groups single out words with emotive connotations.

Fear – terror – horror

Look – stare – glare – glance – gaze

Love – admire – adore – worship

Alone – single – solitary – lonely

Assignment 4.

Single out the denotative and connotative components of meanings in the examples given below.

1)At the little lady’s command they all three smiled.

George, on hearing the story grinned.

2) Forsyte – the best palate in London. The palate that in a sense had made his fortune – the fortunes of the celebrated tea men, Forsyte and Treffry…

June, of course, had not seen this, but , though not yet nineteen, she was notorious.

3)Noticing that they were no longer alone, he turned and again began examining the painting.

June had gone, James had said he would be lonely.

4)I am surprised at you.

He was astonished at the woman’s determination.

Assignment 5

Find antonyms to the words given below.

Good, deep, narrow, clever, young, to love, to give, strong, evil, to die, to open, clean, darkness, sad.