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.
Archaisms and Neologisms.
Assignment 1 .
Translate the following words and divide them into archaisms and historisms.
To chide, bloomers, to slay, hansom, billow, landau, beauteous, breastplate, Berlin, betwixt, lone, oft, steed, prairie shooter.
Assignment 2.
Read the following words and try to guess their meanings, then consult a dictionary .
Welfare-mother, neighbour-watch, heliport, boot-sale, fresher, bananas, Eurocrat, infomercials, Oxbridge, loadsamoney.
Assignment 3.
Classify the following neologisms according to the ways they are formed.
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Phonological neologisms |
Borrowings |
Semantic neologisms | Syntactical neologisms
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| Morphological | Phraseological | |||
A free-fall, me-first-ism, umbrella, to bottle-feed, perestroika, a rah-rah, yuppie, a youth-quake, teeny-weeny, all-or-none, sexism, Irangate, TGIF, sheepskin, middle-of-the roader, to headhunt, danceaholic, DINKs, whiz kid, punkster, sleeping policeman, all-at-onceness, talk-n’-chalk, dolce vita, know-how.
Assignment 4.