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7.Supply antonyms to the following words.

  • Cheerful, remorseful, careful, tactful, graceful, merciful, guileful;

  • Ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-natured, ill-tempered, ill-starred, ill-humoured, ill-fated, ill-favoured, ill-disposed, ill-affected, ill-judged;

  • Shameless, colourless, restless, heartless, spotless, stainless, fearless, tireless;

  • Insincere, indecent, incompetent, inconsistent, indecisive, infamous, intolerant, intolerable, incorruptible;

  • Unreliable, unpleasant, untidy, unreasonable;

  • Irresponsible, irregular, irresistible, irreproachable;

  • Dishonest, disagreeable;

  • Mistrustful.

8.Match the opposites.

  1. obedient

a. industrious

  1. strong

b. vulgar

  1. calm

c. indifferent

  1. beautiful

d. graceless

  1. elegant

e. weak

  1. eloquent

f. ugly

  1. considerate

g. hard-working

  1. lazy

h. naughty

  1. extroverted

i. restless

  1. cruel

j. tongue-tied

  1. generous

k. introverted

  1. unsociable

l. tight-fisted

  1. rude

m. courteous

  1. clever

n. gregarious

o. kind-hearted

p. half-witted

9.Many people avoid negative adjectives by saying not very + the opposite because it is more tactful. Make the following statements more tactful.

1.He is rude.

2.As far as I can judge, he feels gloomy about the future.

3.Don’t you know he’s just greedy.

4.You can’t imagine that he is a false man.

5.She is careless of her reputation.

6.Helen looks miserable.

7.I think he is lazy.

8.John is a real brute.

9.Upon my word, this pretty doll is so nasty.

10.Some characteristics can be either positive or negative depending on your point of view. The words in the right-hand column mean roughly the same as the words in the left-hand column, except that they have negative rather than positive connotations. Reword the following sentences to give the opposite impression.

Determined

  • obstinate, stubborn, pig-headed

thrifty/economical

  • miserly, mean, tight-fisted

self-assured

  • self-important, arrogant, full of oneself

assertive

  • aggressive, bossy

original

  • peculiar, weird, eccentric, odd

frank/direct/open

  • blunt, abrupt, brusque, curt

broad-minded

  • unprincipled, permissive

inquiring

  • inquisitive, nosy

generous

  • extravagant

innocent

  • naive

ambitious

  • pushy

1.Mary’s very thrifty. …………………………………

2.Dora is quite bossy. …………………………………

3.I find Dave self-important. …………………………

4.Nick’s very stingy. ………………………………….

5.Sam’s usually frank. ………………………………..

6.Frank is quite broad-minded. ……………………….

7.Pete can be aggressive. ……………………………..

8.Joe’s very original. ………………………………….

9.Don’t you find Julia nosy? ………………………….

10.Liz often disagrees with what other people say.

She is very argumentative. …………………………