Microsoft Word umk 3-kurs leksikologiya kunduzgi

Exercise 4: Is Sonnet 130 by W. Shakespeare based on similarity of meaning of

words? Are those words synonyms? Prove.

W.Shakespeare Sonnet CXXX

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,

Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I've seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
That in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasant sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground;
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
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Exercise 5: Keeping in mind that problems such as meaning equivalence should be approached on the basis of 'graduation' because there are comparatively few clear­cut cases, find in the following list of words synonymic series and classify them into three groups:

1. 
   synonyms which display an obvious semantic difference (ideographic synonyms);
   
2. 
   synonyms which display an obviously stylistic difference (stylistic synonyms); c) synonyms more or less equally displaying both differences.
   

Ailing, arrogant, battle, begin, behold, bicker, brawl, bright, callous, clever, commence, conflict, conquest, consume, cruel, defeat, devour, diseased, dispiteous, dumb, easy, eat, engorge, facile, fatuous, fight, food, grub, hard-boiled, haughty, high-hat, hoity-toity, horse, ill, inept, ingest, intelligent, light, masticate, obduracy, pace, proud, quarrel, sagacious, see, shrewd, snobbish, snooty, squabble, steed, stride, stroll, stupid, supercilious, tiff, walk.
Exercise 7: With the help of dictionaries explain the meaning of each member of the synonymic groups given below. Give their synonymic dominants.
bystander - spectator - looker-on; cry - weep - shed tears - sob -snivel - wail - whimper; distinguished - illustrious - famous - noted - eminent - celebrated.
Exercise 8: Find antonyms to the following words: Add, asleep, correct, despair, different, esteem, exclude, handsome, high, mount, profound, reject, scarce, truth, weak.