Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 31 стр.

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1. He swung loose-jointedly to the table. (E.Hemingway). 2. He realised that he
was a dreamer of dreams born out of his due time, that he should have floated
Antinous-like with the Emperor Hadrian to the music of flutes and violins on the
subtly-drifting waters of the immemorial Nile. (R.Aldington). 3. He (Tiger) …
turned sharply, tiger-style, the trick that had given him his nick-name. (S.Chaplin).
4. Suddenly Cerberus, barking puppy-fashion for another stick, turned and stood
motionless, ears prickled. (D.Maurier). 5. That’s a Jesus-brilliant thing to say” , Mr.
McArdle said quietly-steadily. (J.D.Salinger). 6. It didn’t surprise me to learn that
Americans send out a billion and a half Christmas cards every year. That would
have been my guess, give or take a quarter of a billion. Missing by 250 million is
coming close nowayears, for what used to be called astronomical figures have
now become the figures of earth. (J.Thurber). 7. The military has been riding awful
high-wide-and-handsome in this country ever since World War II. (F.Knebel,
Ch.Bailey). 8. It (a cat) leaped silently up to the porch and crept low-belly toward
the men. (J.Steinbeck).
Exercise 18. Comment on the stylistic usage of the underlined words.

1. “A moon-geographer,” Richard explained. “They’re going to need people on
the moon who can make maps” (J.Updike). 2. See you five-thirtyish (Bid). 3.
… that young lady had a stand-off-don’t-touch me air… (L.Alcott). 4. His
irritability, though it might have been comprehensible to an urban brain-worker,
was an amazing thing to these quiet Sussex villagers (H.Wells). 5. The riding
surface varies widely. Most places have hard packed dirt. But you can also expect
small to medium rocky roads. Some places are sandy and one road I encountered
was cobblestone! A few places have “washboard” . This is where the springs of the
ranch trucks form waves in the road. This tends to make you seasick or carsick (or
bikesick?) (Internet). 6. Not every old man with ragged trousers is a bad old man:
some are bone-and-bottle men, and have little dogs of their own; and some are
gardeners; and a few, a very few, are wizards prowling round on a holiday looking
for something to do (J.Tolkien). 7. At least homesickness is one disease that I’ve
escaped! I never heard of anybody being asylumsick, did you? (J.Webster). 8. It’s a
fine chance for me to learn house-keeping. Every woman has to understand it, and
I only know asylum-keeping (Bid). 9. That magazine was some little cheerer upper
(J.D.Salinger). 10. “What if they capture us?” said Mrs. Bucket. “What if they
shoot us?” said Grandma Georgina. “What if my beard were made of green
spinach?” cried Mr. Wonka. “Bunkum and tommyrot! You’ll never get anywhere
if you go about what-iffing like that… We want no what-iffers around, right,
Charlie?” (R.Dahl). 11. They asked us to kitten-sit for the evening (J.Rowling). 12.
They belonged to a triple-decker, violently purple bus, which had appeared out of
thin air (Bid). 13. It was terrifically funny to hear the voice of the rather loud-
mouthed Bruno coming out of that tiny mouse’s throat (R.Dahl). 14. The stables
had been full of horses, there was a great turmoil and come-and-go of horses and
of dealers and grooms (D.Lawrence). 15. “I’m sure that by the time we reached the
baseball field there was on every Comanche’s face a some-girls-just-don’t-know-