Class 10 - Antonyms - 4. From the Diary of Anne Frank

Read the paragraph and write the Antonyms of the words underlined. 

Class 10 Prose 4 Antonyms

1. WRITING in a diary is a really strange (a) experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested (b) in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing, and I have an even greater (c) need (d) to get all kinds of things off my chest.

2. ‘Paper has more patience than people.’ I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed (a) and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored (b) and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out. I finally stayed where I was, brooding: Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I’m not planning to let anyone else read this stiff-backed notebook grandly referred to as a ‘diary’, unless I should ever find a real (c)  friend (d) , it probably won’t make a bit of difference.

3. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary (a) everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, (b)  and that’s the problem. Maybe it’s my fault that we don’t confide in each other. In any case, that’s just how things are, and unfortunately (c) they’re not liable to change (d). This is why I’ve started the diary.

4. To enhance (a) the image of this long-awaited friend in my imagination (b) , I don’t want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would do, but I want the diary to be my friend, and I’m going to call this friend ‘Kitty’.

     Since no one would understand a word of my stories to Kitty if I were to plunge right in, I’d better provide a brief (c) sketch of my life, much as I dislike (d) doing so.

5. My father, the most adorable (a) father I’ve ever seen, didn’t marry my mother until he was thirty-six and she was twenty-five. My sister, Margot, was born (b) in Frankfurt in Germany in 1926. I was born on 12 June 1929. I lived in Frankfurt until I was four. My father emigrated to Holland in 1933. My mother, Edith Hollander Frank, went with him to Holland in September, while Margot and I were sent (c) to Aachen to stay with our grandmother. Margot went to Holland in December, and I followed in February, when I was plunked down on the table as a birthday present (d) for Margot.

6. Grandma died (a) in January 1942. No one knows how often I think of her and still love (b) her. This birthday celebration in 1942 was intended to make up for the other, and Grandma’s candle was lit along with the rest.

     The four of us are still doing well, and that brings me to the present date of 20 June 1942, and the solemn (c) dedication of my diary.

7. I get along pretty well with all my teachers. There are nine of them, seven men and two women. Mr Keesing, the old fogey who teaches maths, was annoyed(a) with me for ages because I talked so much. After several warnings, he assigned me extra(b) homework. An essay on the subject, ‘A Chatterbox’. A chatterbox — what can you write about that? I’d worry (c) about that later, I decided. I jotted down the title in my notebook, tucked it in my bag and tried to keep quiet (d).

8. Mr Keesing had a good (a) laugh at my arguments, but when I proceeded to talk my way through the next lesson, he assigned me a second essay. This time it was supposed to be on ‘An Incorrigible Chatterbox’. I handed it in, and Mr Keesing had nothing to complain (b) about for two whole lessons. However, during the third lesson he’d finally (c) had enough. “Anne Frank, as punishment (d) for talking in class, write an essay entitled — ‘Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatterbox’.”

9. I finished my poem, and it was beautiful (a)! It was about a mother duck and a father swan with three baby ducklings who were bitten to death (b) by the father because they quacked too much. Luckily, Mr Keesing took the joke the right way. He read the poem to the class, adding his own comments, and to several other classes as well. Since then I’ve been allowed (c) to talk and haven’t been assigned any extra homework. On the contrary (d), Mr Keesing’s always making jokes these days.