Class 10 - Synonyms - 9. The Proposal

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

1. ( waver       straight   shivering        outstanding        not so good              assessment

It’s cold... I’m trembling (a)  all over, just as if I’d got an examination (b) before me. The great thing is, I must have my mind made up. If I give myself time to think, to hesitate (c) , 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 (d) housekeeper, not bad-looking, well-educated. 

2. (  extremely         easily      emotional          fluttering        crucial       unimportant )

I’m already 35 — a critical (a)  age, so to speak. In the second place, I ought to lead a quiet and regular life. I suffer from palpitations (b) , I’m excitable (c)  and always getting awfully (d)  upset; at this very moment my lips are trembling, and there’s a twitch in my right eyebrow. 

3. ( considering         practice          for now         permanently        disagreement      somehow  )

Oxen Meadows, it’s true, were once the subject of dispute (a) , but now everybody knows that they are mine. There’s nothing to argue about. You see my aunt’s grandmother gave the free use of these Meadows in perpetuity (b) to the peasants of your father’s grandfather, in return for which they were to make bricks for her. The peasants belonging to your father’s grandfather had the free use of the Meadows for forty years, and had got into the habit (c)  of regarding (d)  them as their own, when it happened that...

4. ( soft        rough    terrible     unbearable     control         powerful )

NATALYA: Please don’t shout! You can shout yourself hoarse (a) in your own house but here I must ask you to restrain (b) yourself!

LOMOV: If it wasn’t, madam, for this awful (c), excruciating (d) palpitation, if my whole inside wasn’t upset, I’d talk to you in a different way!

5. ( heartbeat    manage   manipulate       meddle     brainstorm      mood )

CHUBUKOV: Yes really, what sort of a hunter are you, anyway? You ought to sit at home with your palpitations (a) , and not go tracking animals. You could go hunting, but you only go to argue with people and interfere (b) with their dogs and so on. Let’s change the subject in case I lose my temper (c) . You’re not a hunter at all, anyway!

LOMOV: And are you a hunter? You only go hunting to get in with the Count and to intrigue (d).