Exercise 1. Translate the following sentences, pick out antonyms and define their type.

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EXERCISES ON ANTONYMS

1. "Is he fair or dark?"—"Neither." "Is he tall or short?" —"Average, I should say." "Are you trying to irritate me?" "No, he's just ordinary. There's nothing in him to attract your attention. He's neither plain nor good-looking."

2. It is difficult enough to fix a tent in dry weather, in wet, the task becomes herculean.

3. If you don't go, she said wiping the wet table dry before setting the cloth, I'll tell your dad when becomes.

4. I'm telling you the truth. Why should I tell you a lie. 6. It may be that when I'm through I shall have something to give that people will be glad to take.

5. To her, men were good or bad.

6. Her soul which was black as night, is now pure and white like the new-fallen snow.

7. However much or little she knows, she has never, -in my experience, displayed either for profit or for effect any detailed acquaintance with the little world that circulates round her shop. .

8. Well, let us suppose that this is the anniversary of my wedding day and my thoughts have been much occupied with the ups and downs, the fortunes and misfortunes of married life.

9. Fact is, I can't quite believe it's all true till I see it in black and white.

10. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the thing, Barbara must not be allowed to prevent him from doing what he felt he wanted to do, such as it was, about Buckmaster.