Persuade/convince – try to persuade/convince

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Cure – treat – heal

Fall asleep – get to sleep

Gaze – stare – look up and down

Remember the meaning that the following expressions imply.

Active Vocabulary

EXERCISE 9. Put the words into the correct form where necessary and fill in the gaps.

A.

1. It is rude to………like that. He must be lacking in good manners.

2. She sat……..out of the window, and sometimes smiling at the thought of him.

3. He sat……..the water with the eyes that saw nothing of the beauty of the sea.

4. Scarcely believing what she said, he ……..at her.

5. He………the stranger……..suspiciously.

B.

6. Mr. Cowlishaw was so nervous that he couldn't ……….. He knew it would be madness to think that anybody would come on such a day. He wished he could go to the match himself.

7. Rannoch was so tired after the match that he …………

8. Erik was too much excited to………, it took him long……….. .

9. Erik used to……….as soon as he reached the bed.

10. Mrs. Simeon Clowes had such a severe pain that she ……….. .

C.

11. They are trying a new………..for cancer. So many people are looking forward to getting effective treatment for this disease.

12. She had to wait for the wound ………..before she was able to go swimming.

13. It is difficult ………..smoking.

14. The best ………depression is to keep busy.

15. Time……..all ills.

16. Since he began taking………..he has noticed a tremendous improvement.

D.

17. Mrs. Simeon Clowes must have ………… her husband that she couldn't afford to miss the match.

18. Brom Van Brunt ………… everybody that the teacher had been carried away by the ghost.

19. Crane ………… to marry him.

E.