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Task 1. Find these words and expressions in the text. Explain their meaning in English. Then look them up in the dictionary to check their translation if necessary. Give an example of the situation in which these words and phrases can be used.
Usurped privilege, thoroughly, bundle of money, dire, to conceive, beggar, moth of the lamp, baffling forces, to go over the tangle, semblance, to shrink, coward, weary, lure, to deter, finery, reverie, dainty, concoction, to linger, to waver.
Task 2. Match each word from the reading with its synonym. Make up sentences with the words from the text.
| a) to usurp | 1) to be wrung with |
| b) thoroughly | 2) dreaminess |
| c) bundle | 3) horrible |
| d) dire | 4) confusion |
| e) to conceive | 5) beautiful things |
| f) to beg | 6) tired |
| g) baffling | 7) likeness |
| h) tangle | 8) temptation |
| i) semblance | 9) big amount |
| g) to shrink | 10) refined |
| k) weary | 11) to panhandle |
| l) lure | 12) difficult |
| m) finery | 13) to understand |
| n) reverie | 14) completely |
| o) dainty | 15) to appropriate |
Task 3. Fill each gap with one word. Then re-read the text if necessary.
1. The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and _________.
2. When each individual realises for himself that this thing primarily ________and should only be accepted as a moral due … many of our social, religious, and political troubles will have permanently passed.
3. She felt that she was immensely better ________for the having of them.
4. He gave her the money _______of a good heart.
5. In his good clothes and fine health, he was a merry, unthinking ______of the lamp.
6. If she could only get enough to _________ her out easy.
7. Even after all her depressing conclusions, she could _________away all thought about the matter.
8. When Carrie began wandering around the store ________the fine displays she was in this mood.
9. Her original experience in this same place had given her a high opinion of its____.
10. When she entered the store, she already had her heart fixed upon the peculiar little tan jacket with large __________buttons.
