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

Read the paragraph and write the synonym of the underlined words choosing from the words given in the brackets:

1. ( curious        common        odd               amusing     bigger             ideas  )

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 (c) of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing, and I have an even greater (d) need to get all kinds of things off my chest.

2. ( weary           energetic        tolerance        sad       proverb          phrase )

'Paper has more patience (a) than people.’ I thought of this saying (b) on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed (c) and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, (d) wondering whether to stay in or go out. 

3. ( motivated            pondering             likely         unlikely            impossible             magnificently  )

I finally stayed where I was, brooding: (a) Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I’m not planning to let anyone else read this stiff-backed notebook grandly (b) referred to as a ‘diary’, unless I should ever find a real friend, it probably (c) won’t make a bit of difference.

 

     Now I’m back to the point that prompted (d) me to keep a diary in the first place: I don’t have a friend

4. ( reveal         vaguely     sadly         likely            regular             extraordinary )

 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, and that’s the problem. Maybe it’s my fault that we don’t confide (b) in each other. In any case, that’s just how things are, and unfortunately (c) they’re not liable (d) to change. This is why I’ve started the diary.

5. ( dive        drown        strengthen        short            fantasy         reality )

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 (c) right in, I’d better provide a brief (d) sketch of my life, much as I dislike doing so.

6. ( believable        essential          unwanted        incredible        chatter        allotted ) 

Anyone could ramble (a) on and leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with convincing (b) arguments to prove the necessity (c) of talking. I thought and thought, and suddenly I had an idea. I wrote the three pages Mr Keesing had assigned  (d) me and was satisfied.

7. ( quality           remedy             stated              lied       ancestral            owned )

I argued (a) that talking is a student’s trait  (b) and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to cure (c) myself of the habit since my mother talked as much as I did if not more, and that there’s not much you can do about inherited (d) traits.

8. ( hurried            drained            creativity         energetic       shouted         foolish )  

The class roared. (a) I had to laugh too, though I’d nearly exhausted (b) my ingenuity (c) on the topic of chatterboxes. It was time to come up with something else, something original. My friend, Sanne, who’s good at poetry, offered to help me write the essay from beginning to end in verse and I jumped for joy. Mr Keesing was trying to play a joke on me with this ridiculous (d) subject, but I’d make sure the joke was on him.