Assignment 10 Chapters 17, 18

I. Active Vocabulary

1. Learn the pronunciation and the meaning of the given words:

Lingering, vestige, crapulent, nausea, vertigo, saturate, pabulum, cruet, Genghis Khan, demeanour, histrionically, vehemently, portico, purge, adversely, whittle, gout, vermilion, pallor, self-deprecatory, superannuation, blatant, toupee, flatulent, congealed, incredulous, petulant, liturgical, admirable, ominously, Gallic, bias, vignette, effeminate, indefatigably, viscosity, coalesce, culprit, maneuvering, quip, defy, falsetto, philistine, ostentatiously, bolero, beret.

2. Match the words with their two synonyms:

1. vestige a) terrible k) touchy

2. pabulum b) sign l) giddiness

3. blatant c) distrustful m) to challenge

4. vertigo d) irritable n) delinquent

5. incredulous e) dizziness o) to unite

6. petulant f) criminal p) mistrustful

7. culprit g) to dare q) horrible

8. to defy h) to join together r) indication

9. flatulent i) food s) pompous

10. to coalesce j) pretentious t) nutriment

3. Fill in the gaps where possible with the corresponding words. Translate the words:

Noun	Adjective	Verb
	ostentatious
		to linger
		to saturate
	vehement
	adverse
	deprecating
	flatulent
		to congeal
admiration
	(inde)fatigable

4. Define the meaning of the lexical units:

Nothing could be further from the truth, to be stirred in some way, to recede up the stairs, to catch a glimpse of, two can play at the game, to lie low, Continental way of looking at things, to get back on the old footing with smb, to spare smb smth, to gobble up the bank-balance, the whiff of grape-shot, to follow smb’s line of thoughts, to throw smb away for a scruple, pull oneself together.

Recall the situations the units were used in.

5. Fill in the prepositions in the following expressions. Recall the situations the expressions are used in. Make up the situations of your own:

on on up over up at away on with in with of down up with for on to down by

To write _____ the lecture, to cheer ___ ______ the thought, to run ____ ____ smb, to be unacquainted ____, to fasten one’s attention ___smth, to spatter milk ____ smth, ____ point ___ fact, to turn ____ one’s offer, a respect _____ smth, to switch one’s ____ attention, to be set ____ smth, to recuperate _____ smth, ____ cue, to wash ____ ____, to take ____ ____smb.

6. Reproduce the dialogue between:

a) Dixon and Beesley;

b) Dixon and Professor Welch;

c) Dixon and Mrs Welch;

d) Dixon and Bertrand;

e) Dixon and Christine.

II. Questions and Topics for Analysis

1. What happened in the morning? What was Dixon’s main concern at the moment?

2. How did Atkinson behave in the morning and why?

3. What news made Dixon worried?

4. How did Johns react to the letter?

5. What was strange in his appearance and why?

6. Why did Dixon make up his mind to see Barclay?

7. Whom did he meet at the library?

8. What “favour” did Professor ask for?

9. How did Dixon feel about that?

10. Why did Dixon accept Prof Welch’s invitation to have dinner with his family?

11. What happened on the arrival to the Welches’?

12. Name at least three predicaments Dixon let himself into.

13. Prepare the paragraph “Dixon felt… he said” (p.172) for control reading. Mark the stressed syllables, explain the necessary intonation patterns.