Define the type of the italisized antonymic pairs. Prove your opinion

1) False friends are worse than open enemies. 2) Neither here nor there. 3) Speech is silver, silence in gold. 4) A good husband makes a good wife. 5) Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. 5) What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.

10. Find contextual antonyms in the following sentences:

a) There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us (Hock).

b) Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully and pointed out that … some lived in trees and some lived underground (A. Miln).

c) "A saint abroad, and a devil at home." (Bunyan)

d) "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." (Milton)

11.* Find 10 pairs of antonyms:

disrespectful, likely, deny, sink, spacious, lazy, improbable, ineptitude, subtle, deferential, cramped, victory, gloomy, bright, float, admit, ability, elaborate, simple, obvious, zealous, defeat.

12.* Match each sentence and the meaning of the contronym realized in it:

1. That was a bad move. 2. He’s a real bad singer. 3. ‘Shall a man cleave unto his wife?’ Genesis 2. 4. You can cleave the log in two with an axe. 5. Blessed are the meek. 6. I’m blessed if I will! 7. He’s one of the fastest runners in the world. 8. A fast colour does not run. 9. The aircraft dusted the fields. 10. Have you dusted this room? 11. Dark glasses screened his eyes from the sun. 12. The match will be screened live on TV. 13. The mean annual rainfall was 852 mm. 14. He’s a mean tennis player. 15. Farmers seeded a field. 16. Add one lime, seeded and sliced.

a. to spray with powder b. to show c. very good d. to split apart e. sanctified f. to remove seeds g. damned h. moving quickly i. to add seeds j. not moving at all k. not good l. remove dust from m. to hide n. average o. to stick together p. excellent

Provide the appropriate translation for the following contronyms.

first degree – most severe (e.g. murder), least severe (e.g. burn)

fix – restore, castrate

flog – criticize harshly, promote aggressively

garnish – enhance (e.g. food), curtail (e.g. wages)

give out – produce, stop production

grade – incline, level

handicap – advantage, disadvantage

help – assist, prevent (e.g. “I can’t help it if...”)

left – remaining, departed from

screen – show, hide

skinned – with the skin on, with the skin removed