Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 6 стр.

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1. take your things out of a suitcase u n p a c k e d
2. rude _______________
3. selfish ______________
4. a story based on fact ______________
5. colleague ______________
6. happening between Europe and Asia _________________
7. noon ________________
8. not earning enough money _______________
9. go faster than the other competitors in the race __________________
10. greater than the powers of an ordinary person __________________
11. not good enough ______________
12. not working or moving _________________
13. something unlucky _______________
14. not pleased _________________
15. get something back again ________________
16. allow to get hot in advance _______________

Exercise 5. Make any necessary corrections to the adjectives in the sentences
below. The may be either of logic or word-formation. The exercise starts with an
example.
                                            unemotional
1. The British are generally regarded as inemotional race.
2. What’s wrong? You seem very uncontented with your job these days.
3. No one is completely unvulnerable to stress.
4. The police were not fooled by their unconvincing story.
5. I wouldn’t trust him at all. He’s one of the most unhonest men I know.
6. They seemed unaware that there was anyone else in the room.
7. The children were impatient for the film to start.
8. I couldn’t help thinking that all their lavish praise was really unsincere.
9. I’m afraid Joan is very disattentive in lessons.
10. He’s not very good-looking but, there again, he’s not inattractive either.

Exercise 6. Fill the blanks with the suitable prefixal antonyms of the root word
suggested in brackets.

1. She was hateful, of course, but she was … (resist). 2. A strange, wild, haughty
looking creature! Swithin observed his clothes with some … (approve). 3. He
looked at his son. Now they had actually come to discuss a subject connected with
the relations between the sexes he felt … (trust). 4. The teacher expressed his great
… (content) with the works of his pupils. 5. He was still mysterious, withdrawn
within himself, extraordinarily … (interest) in his physical surroundings. 6. And
though nine-tenth of the inhabitants never went outside the gates, the definite and
absolute closing of them … (moral) all hearts. 7. ‘Do you think I don’t know,’ said
my aunt, ‘what kind of life you must have led, that poor, unhappy … (direct)
baby?’ 8. A wife has to overlook the little … (perfect) in her husband’s behaviour?