Exercise 2. Give antonyms to the words in bold type; define the type of antonyms.

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1. He was as pleasant, attentive and soberly gay as usual.

2. He had a pale fleshy face with broad short nose and a big mouth. 3. He had –invented a kind of ping-pong played sitting down with rulers at a lowtable, and complicated by a set of disques.

3. If we wait till it's dark we shall be too late.

4. It was so pleasant to discover that he was very glad to see me. He seemed in great spirits and extremely happy.

5. In the darkness she could not see his face, but she felt that it was haggard.

6. Cartridge looked tiredand old.

7. She was very quick at learning.

8. He watched the strong, easy young figure, the fine eyebrows, the thick black hair.

9. The nylon was dry, but –the cotton dress was still dampand unpleasant

10. My heart was beating light and fast and the mouth felt dry.

11. He went in, plucked a layer of charcoal and stamped it into the soft wet soil.

12. The light was dim because the blinds were drawn to keep out the heat.

13. Larry was so gay, in such high spirits that it would have needed a much more ill-natured man than Elliott not to be charmed with him.

14. The weather was dry and hot.

15. Here and there in the mud were fragments of some hard white substance.

16. Behind the beautiful tragedian she could see in the glass a thin, miserable old creature.

17. He was rich and good-natured. 26. He's been very sweet to his father.

18. They thought him a devilish lucky young fellow.

19. After that I saw much of her.

20. Miss Carter seemed to be in goodspirits.

21. She's just slow at developing.

22. It was a hot afternoon, the first period after lunch, a time which Morgan hated.

23. He tried again and was more successful.

24. As the bus conveyed Morgan along the noisy road towards the outskirts of the housing estate, he felt as if he were emerging from a dream.

25. The stream was very shallow.

26. It was a cold windy evening with occasional bursts of thin misty rain.

27. He had a poor opinion anyway of sir George's process of thought. 44. Things go wrong, sir, sometimes, and they don't always go wrong because people have made them go wrong

28. They have made life so difficult for us nowadays.

29. Things are going badly in this country.

30. There was a bodyguard here.tall, fair-haired,handsome young men. They wore some kind of uniform.