EXERCISE 6. Fill in the blanks with the right words and explain your choice:

Fill in the blanks with the right words and explain your choice:

flash, glitter, twinkle, flicker

1.There were a lot of skaters on the … ice of the bank. 2. The lightning … and

the candle. 4. There was no moon, the stars were …. 5. She was dressed in her tweed overcoat, upon which snow … here and there. 6. The spires of the city … a little in the light as if faintly visible stars had alighted upon them. 7. He struck a match and held it up; his head trembled and the … light went out. 8. He sped past a shrubbery, a lighted window … somewhere..

dim, vague, obscure

1. I can’t say I know the play well, I have rather a … idea about it. 2. In the … light of an oil-lamp the contours of the things seemed …. 3. “His verses lack clarity.” – “Yes, they are quite ….” 4. It happened such a long time ago, my recollections of the events are rather …. 5. Muriel felt a … uneasiness, but she had seen her father in such moods before. 6. Pattie was born in an … and nice town in the centre of South-East England on the North sea coast.