Explain the reasons for your decisions

1. He shuddered at the thought of a meeting that lay before him.

2. The whole situation, he tells me, was extraordinary, like that of an African explorer who, endeavouring to ignore one of the local serpents, finds himself exchanging glances with a man-eating tiger.

3. He merely blushed and said that he was jolly well going to go, because this girl was in Cannes.

4. Gosh, how I used to admire you at the dear old school. You were my hero.

5. What I really want is a meal.

6. That is the trouble about Cannes in August — it becomes very mixed. You get there splendid chaps who were worshipped by their schoolmates — and you also get men like this hookie.

7. He resents their cold stare.

8. Her voice was trembling with excitement.

9. He made a short speech in French, and the mothers all applauded, and the babies all yelled.

10. The girl was shivering with cold.

11. I must confess I am a little surprised.

12. "A truck driver,'' shouted someone from the audience.

13. "You have settled it!" cried the astonished parent.

14. The audience roared with laughter.

15. He was speaking for half an hour or so.

16. His face reddened he could hardly keep his temper.

17. "I adore you, Mary, he said.

18. His eyes glittered with malice.

19. She would have liked to go there herself but couldn't.

20. His eyes were blazing as he heard how cruelly the children had been treated.

21. I was perfectly amazed that one man, all by himself, should have been able to beat down and capture such battalions of practised fighters.

22. His eyes sparkled with happiness.

6. Write out synonymic groups and classify them into:

A. Synonyms differentiated by evaluative connotations.

B. Synonyms differentiated by connotation of manner.

1. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John!

2. His eyes sparkled with amusement.

3. "Joey — Joey...!" I said staggering unevenly towards the peacock.

4. Betty would have liked to peep in but could not.

5. Presently I saw a man strolling along.

6. Her eyes glittered with hatred.

7. Those artisans produce pottery with great skill.

8. He was a well-known scientist.

9. It's getting late, so I must trot away.

10. The boy was peering into a dark room.

11. He swaggered along the corridor, evidently in high spirits.

12. The will was fabricated.

13. There was a picture of a celebrated painter on the wall.

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

fear — terror — horror;

look — stare — glare — gaze — glance;

love — admire — adore — worship;

alone — single — solitary — lonely;

tremble — shiver — shudder — shake;

wish — desire — yearn — long.

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