Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 41 стр.

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Which is more used to up-to-no-gooders (J.Fowles). 10. I was always asked to
keep the score for netball or rounders while sitting at the edge of the pitch looking
on (J.D.Salinger). 11. Another feature in these isles is their emphatic
uninhabitableness (H.Melville). 12. I didn’t imagine the expected to expect so
suddenly (P.Rath). 13. This was the first time in many years Colonel Bünle had
heard this adjective applied to this race by a non-German (B.Arnold). 14. For
Fred, disapproving of her being here at all, was quite ready to let friendship, or at
least acquaintanceship, follow his disapproval, if only she would let him
(D.Lessing). 15. My musicianship is poor, and slightly unusual rhythms perplex
me (I.McEwan). 16. Like all compulsive monologuists he lacked curiosity about
other people’s minds, but his stories were good and never told the same one twice
(Bid). 17. It’s pricy enough (D.Lodge). 18. O’Brien grinned at him toothily
(J.Jones). 19. Jack laughed and put out a ham-like hand. He tried to out-grip me
but he couldn’t manage it (J.Braine). 20. He had what might be called a third-class
leading man’s speaking voice: narcissistically deep and resonant, functionally
prepared at a moment’s notice to out-male anyone in the same room with it
(J.D.Salinger).

Exercise 3. Define the means by which the words in bold type are made. Pick out
occasional words.

1. A hump-backed moon was coming up, brightening the eastern sky and
silhouetting the distant scraps of the Blue Mountains in a solid wall. 2. She looked
after the nurse with a doglike expression and slowly began to put on her dressing
gown. 3. Life had rooted these ideas firmly in their minds. 4. He glanced at the
clock and edged nearer to the door. 5. I started pussyfooting through the house. 6.
I will not let any gloomy moralising intrude upon us here tonight. Here we are
gathered together for a brief moment from the bustle and rush of our everyday
routine. 7. He cupped his hands about his mouth. 8. She had no intention of being
sidetracked from the subject. 9. She had nursed the girl in her infancy. 10. He
took the hours-old fish away. 11.I need not say that such a breach of confidence is
unthinkable. 12. You know nothing, Mr.Hampton. Your balloon-like mind is
entirely filled with egotistical gas. 13. We’ll turn to the right and see if we pick up
the lettered streets. 14. It was a long hall, papered and carpeted in dark green. 15.
His heavy-lidded eyes and the disorder of his scanty hair made him look sleepy.
16. “Well, you’re saving it, honey, till the right time comes,” she said, breaking the
silence above her had quieted - she wondered, not noting them so long (R.Price).
17. “Are you mad or something? If I told Edwards you’d touched me, he’d have
you blacklisted by every agency in London (J.Wain). 18. Carrington Villas was
one great gloomy drip-drip (J.Priestley). 19. … with a hit-hit here and a hit-hit
there (D.Lawrence). 20. What a creepy idea! (D.Lodge). 21. Both of them were
blue-lipped and insensible (C.Doyle). 22. She ran successfully for the Vice-
Presidentship of the Student Union (D.Lodge). 23. She watched him put on his
socks, with a mixed expression of injury and the ungovernable interest of
someone who has been examining laundered socks for holes for a great many