II. EXERCISES. 1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:

1. Give definitions using an English-English dictionary; give the derivatives of the words in bold type:

wicked; to regain one's spirits; inscrutable; sensitive; to be overwhelmed with joy; nuisance; petty; to summon up one's resolution; to distract one's mind

2. Translate into Russian. Make up sentences of your own:

a) a wicked man (child, smile, look, remark, behaviour, action); an inscrutable smile (face, countenance), inscrutable eyes, inscrutable ways of nature; a sensitive child (girl, plant, flower, skin); sensitive to blame (beauty, charm, heat, cold, the Min, gossip); a petty man (snob, trouble, offence); petty vindictiveness (snobbery, wickedness, feelings, regulations)

b) 1. Don't let any petty feeling come between us. 2. It was wicked of your friend to bring that girl to the party. 3. I am sorry if I am a nuisance, but do you mind changing places with me? 4. The rumour had it that I had been too sensitive to your criticism. Don't you believe it, it was somebody's wicked tongue, no more. 5. I don't attach much importance to what

ant people have to say on the subject. 6. When your face becomes inscrutable, I am prepared for the worst. 7. Summon up your courage and face reality, man! You can't live on make- believe all your life. 8. When I read that story, I was seized with horror. 9. The story runs that a young girl loved a boy to distraction and when she was ready to throw everything to thewinds for his sake, she encountered him with another girl in the street. It was a mortal blow to her vanity. To distract her mind, she married another man, old enough to be her father, to fim out later that that girl was her boy's aunt. A charming story, isn't it? I could hardly regain my spirits for laughing my head off, after reading it. Love is blind.

3. Paraphrase using the active vocabulary:

1. When the youth became an officer, his joy knew no bounds.

2. The young mother loved her child madly.

3. Turn off the radio, it is getting on my nerves.

4. None of the soldiers was panic-stricken at the sight of the approaching enemy.

5. Time is the best healer: in a month after the accident the girl became her former self again.

6. Do you really find my opinion so important?

7. He was mortified by his girl marrying his bitterest enemy.

8. She wondered if there was a man who could ruin his_; future, make a sacrifice of his career, forget himself for' her sake.

9. To prevent myself from thinking about my trou­bles, I went to the cinema.

10. This flower can't stand the sunshine, it is too tender.

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