Основы теории английского языка. Листунова Е.И. - 14 стр.

liqueur, of — off, pauper — poor, raise — rear, senior — sir, scar —
share, skirt — shirt, shade — shadow, whit — wight.
      III.
      What do you think, is the difference between the words in the
following pairs?
      Nightly — nocturnal, yearly — annual, cloudy — nebulous,
heavenly — celestial, womanly — feminine, brotherly — fraternal,
bodily — corporeal, goodly — considerable, friendly — benevolent,
homely — domestic, truthful — veracious, earthly — terrestrial.
      IV.
      Insert in the following sentences the stylistically correct word
from the list above.
      1. He gave me a ... answer. 2. The astronomers used an extremely
elaborate ... map. 3. To enable the struggling authors to live Smith
established a ... society. 4. New ideas were introduced both into the
foreign and ... policy. 5. She looked at him, her eyes ... with sleep.
6. This specimen belongs to a species of ... animals. 7. She was in ... fear
of the man. 8. The place had a ... air and the child soon quieted down.
9. This is an ... publication. 10. She looked very ... in her new dress.
      V.
      Give adjectives of Latin origin corresponding to the following
nouns.
      Cat, dog, ear, egg, eye, father, hair, life, mouth, nose, sea,
side, sight, son, star, sun, time, town, uncle, youth.
      Using a dictionary comment on the difference in the semantics of
the nouns and adjectives in the previous exercise (16b).
      VI.
      There are in most European languages some words the meaning
of which — no matter who says them, an Englishman, a Russian, a
Frenchman, etc., i. e. allowing for the difference in pronunciation —
is roughly speaking, identical. These ‘international’ words can be traced
etymologically, that is to say they came into different languages as a
result of simultaneous or successive borrowing from one and the same
source. Thus they are actually ‘national’. However they comprise a
special stock common tî many countries and their etymology is a
secondary actor. ‘International’ words differ from other borrowings in
that they reflect the relations of a number of countries and not the

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