Match the words and phrases with their definitions. .

1. saunter— 2. rueful— 3. look-out— 4. turn sb out— 5. do the marketing— 6. cut a ridiculous(tragic, absurd, grand, etc) figure — 7. find fault (with sb)— 8. abstemious— 9. chaff— n; chaff— vt 10. be in a passion— 11. to trifle away(time, money, energy, etc)— 12. inscrutable— 13. blunder— vi blunder— n 14. take pains—; painstaking— 15. foster— 16. tell-tale— n tell-tale— adj 17. hand-to-mouth— adj, adv live from hand to mouth— 18. demure— 19. vanquish— 20. surmise['sa:maiz] — n surmise[sa'maizl — vt, vi

n good-natured teasing or joking; vt make fun (of) or tease (in a good-natured way) vi make a gross or foolish mistake, move or act clumsily; n gross or stupid mistake vt nourish; nurse; rear up; cherish; sustain or support adj grave, sober, affectedly modest, pretending to be modest and serious vi walk in a leisurely way doshopping work with great care or effort; adj careful, diligent, assiduous adj, adv uncertain(ly); have so little money that all that is earned must immediately be spent on food n aguess based on a certain amount of evidence, guessing, supposition; vt, vi guess with the help of a cer­tain amount of evidence, conjecture adj showing, feeling, expressing regret (a.... smile. Cf: pensive eyes) appear to others in a discreditable (imposing, etc) way, show oneself in a poor (funny, etc) light adj not tobe penetrated by inquiry or reason; incomprehensible vt subdue; overcome (lit and fig) 1.prospect, what seems likely to corne or happen; 2.responsibility; fault; 3. зд. viewpoint be filled with anger n one who tells about another's private affairs; adj betraying, revealing secret, hidden feel­ings, etc (a … blush flash, etc) expel by force, threats, etc waste or fritter away complain (about), object to, criticize adj moderate, esp in taking food and drink; frugal

A. Training Exercises

I. Translate into Russian the passage beginning with "I do not know why...", ending with "...with her demure appearance" (Ch. XXXII).

II. Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases from the book and reproduce the context in which they occur:

look-out; to find fault with; to be of abstemious habit; bedraggled; hand-to-mouth; to eat humble pie; idio­syncrasy; cordiality; to run straight into sb; to bear malice; unwarranted.

III. Find synonyms for:

to roam; to pick on sb; prudent; to suppose; to waste; teetotaller; to subdue; to rear up; to conquer; to look funny or absurd; to be hardly able to make both ends meet; to fly into a passion.

IV. Give the contrary statements choosing the necessary expression from the key list below:

1. He went on another bout of drinking.

2. Here's a person of infinite tact and consideration who would always smooth out any clumsy situation.

3. This is a child from the so-called broken family. No one ever took care of him and no wonder he's gone to the bad.

4. It's her all over. You can always guess her feelings and thoughts—they are all in her face.

5. She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and has no idea what privation is.

6. He was unable to find a single shred of evidence and lost the case.

7. He's always been lucky in all his ventures. And all that without stirring a finger.

(inscrutable; to foster; to take pains; to blunder; to be of abstemious habit; to live from hand to mouth; tell­tale evidence)

V. Suggest words or word combinations from the vocabulary list:

to overcome; to pick on sb; to make a ridiculous appear­ance; sorrowful; to become very angry; to grumble (at or about); viewpoint; to walk slowly and more or less aimlessly; quiet and serious.

VI. Paraphrase the underlined word-groups, supply their Russian equi­valents and use them in sentences of your own:

1. He looked woebegone.

2.His smile was rueful.

3. He could hardly get the words out.

4. You mustn't take very seriously what women say when they are in a passion.

5. He looked suddenly bedraggled.

6. She can't bear the sight of him.

7.He abandoned all self-respect.

8. I tried to speak but the words wouldn't come.

9. There are more cafes in Paris than one in which to trifle away an idle hour.

10. It was her own look-out.

11. Everyone's concep­tion of the passion is formed on his own idiosyncrasies.

B. Speech Exercises

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