Class 10 - Antonyms - 9. The Proposal

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

1. We just get along somehow, my angel, thanks to your prayers, and so on. Sit down, please do... Now, you know, you shouldn’t forget all about your neighbours, my darling. My dear fellow, why are you so formal in your get-up! Evening dress, gloves, and so on. Can you be going anywhere, my treasure?

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Forget – remember / recall / retain / recollect / remind
Formal – casual / informal / relaxed / easy-going / simple
Evening – morning / dawn / daybreak / sunrise / daylight
Treasure – trash / worthless / discard / ignore / devalue

2. I’ve come to you, honoured Stepan Stepanovitch, to trouble you with a request. Not once or twice have I already had the privilege of applying to you for help, and you have always, so to speak... I must ask your pardon, I am getting excited. I shall drink some water, honoured Stepan Stepanovitch.

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Trouble – comfort / ease / calm / soothe / please
Request – refusal / rejection / denial / command / order
Excited – calm / composed / relaxed / quiet / peaceful
Help – harm / hinder / obstruct / oppose / neglect

3. The great thing is, I must have my mind made up. If I give myself time to think, to hesitate, to talk a lot, to look for an ideal, or for real love, then I’ll never get married. Brr... It’s cold! Natalya Stepanovna is an excellent housekeeper, not bad-looking, well-educated. What more do I want? But I’m getting a noise in my ears from excitement.

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Hesitate – decide / act / proceed / continue / advance
Cold – warm / hot / heated / cozy / sunny
Excellent – poor / bad / inferior / ordinary / mediocre
Excitement – calmness / dullness / boredom / peace / indifference

4. I’m excitable and always getting awfully upset; at this very moment my lips are trembling, and there’s a twitch in my right eyebrow. But the very worst of all is the way I sleep. I no sooner get into bed and begin to go off, when suddenly something in my left side gives a pull, and I can feel it in my shoulder and head... I jump up like a lunatic, walk about a bit and lie down again, but as soon as I begin to get off to sleep there’s another pull! And this may happen twenty times.

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Upset – calm / relaxed / composed / peaceful / happy
Trembling – steady / still / firm / stable / motionless
Worst – best / finest / greatest / most excellent / superior
Suddenly – gradually / slowly / steadily / calmly / gently

Lunatic – sane / rational / sensible / balanced / sound-minded

5. The weather is splendid now, but yesterday it was so wet that the workmen didn’t do anything all day. How much hay have you stacked? Just think, I felt greedy and had a whole field cut, and now I’m not at all pleased about it because I’m afraid my hay may rot. I ought to have waited a bit. But what’s this? Why, you’re in evening dress! 

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Splendid – dull / unpleasant / gloomy / awful / miserable

Wet – dry / arid / parched / dehydrated

Greedy – generous / content / selfless / giving

Afraid – confident / brave / fearless / assured

6..My late aunt and her husband, from whom, as you know, I inherited my land, always had the greatest respect for your father and your late mother. The Lomovs and the Chubukovs have always had the most friendly, and I might almost say the most affectionate, regard for each other. 

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Late – living / alive / existing / present

Respect – disrespect / dishonour / rudeness / disregard / contempt
Friendly – unfriendly / hostile / rude / cold / distant
Affectionate – unkind / harsh / indifferent / cold-hearted / unfriendly

7..Don’t excite yourself, my precious one. Allow me. Your Guess certainly has his good points. He’s purebred, firm on his feet, has well-sprung ribs, and all that. But, my dear man, if you want to know the truth, that dog has two defects: he’s old and he’s short in the muzzle.

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Excite – calm / soothe / relax / quiet / comfort

Good – bad / poor / weak / faulty / unpleasant

Old – young / new / fresh / recent / modern

Short – long / tall / extended / lengthy / high

8. It’s not true! My dear fellow, I’m very liable to lose my temper, and so, just because of that, let’s stop arguing. You started because everybody is always jealous of everybody else’s dogs. Yes, we’re all like that! You too, sir, aren’t blameless! You no sooner begin with this, that and the other, and all that... I remember everything!

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True – false / untrue / incorrect / wrong / fake

Lose – find / gain / win / recover / obtain

Jealous – content / trusting / generous / understanding / confident

Blameless – guilty / faulty / sinful / responsible / at fault