Mild, 6) moderation, 7) prodigal, 8) cowardice,
9) irascible , 10) self-indulgent, 11) aversion,
Irresponsible, 13) compassion, 14) honesty,
Negligence, 16) lazy, 17) prudent,
Foolhardy, 19) consistent, 20) deficiency.
a) formal control of your behaviour, so that you keep your actions, feelings, habits, etc. within reasonable or sensible limits;
b) a strong dislike of something or someone;
c) the failure to do something that you are responsible for in a careful enough way, so that something bad happens or may happen;
d) becoming angry easily;
e) not willing to spend money or share something even though you have enough;
f) not too severe or serious; not strong-tasting or hot-tasting;
g) a strong feeling of sympathy for someone who is suffering;
h) allowing yourself to have or enjoy something that you do not need;
i) willingness to give money, time, etc. to help someone, or something you do that shows this;
j) doing things that are careless without thinking about the possible results;
k) formal tending to waste what you have, especially money;
l) done too quickly without thinking carefully first, or, behaving in this way;
m) showing good judgement, reasonable;
n) a lack of courage;
o) sensible and careful especially by avoiding risks that are not necessary;
p) uprightness of disposition and conduct; straightforwardness; the quality opposed to lying, cheating or stealing;
q) to say the same thing or follow the same
principles as something else; always happening in the same way or having the same attitudes, quality;
r) a lack of something that is needed; a condition of not being good enough;
s) taking risks that are not necessary;
t) not liking and not doing work or physical activity; moving slowly.
VI. Fill in the gaps with the words given below.
1) Early modern thinkers recognize… of industriousness, which tend to be expressed in activity related to production, to subduing the physical environment.
2) In Aristotle’s famous study of character, the virtue of courage, for example, lies between the vices of… and cowardice.
3) I’ve tried to be…in applying the rules.
4) Mary has … to cats.
5) She’s really upset – can’t you show a little…
6) We never doubted Frank’s ….
7) It would not be…to spend so much money now.
8) A person who gets angry too quickly will be…
9) The virtue of courage stands between cowardice, which involves excessive fear, and a sort of…
10) The cardinal virtue that controls the pleasure drive is… and the one that controls the power drive is courage.
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11) Immoderate or…has no wish to do the moderate thing and does not do it.
12) They are suing the doctor for…
13) We need to be able to judge whether the person’s motives were appropriate, including whether her/his feelings were appropriate or not (whether they were excessive or…).
14) Many readers said that they could hardly bear to remember the tight-fisted habits of their parents, while others reported that years of… had either broken up their marriages or had made their lives a misery.
15) Undershaft believed that one could be wasteful, careless and … if one had money enough to live handsomely.
a) honesty; b) deficient; c) rashness; d)moderation;
E) compassion; f) irascible; g) consistent; h) virtue;
I) aversion; j) prudent; k) foolhardiness; l) stinginess;
M) negligence; n) generous; o) self-indulgent.
VII. Make up a sentence using the words from ex.VI. about the situations.
Example: Every year on her birthday her husband would give her the same birthday card. – He is so stingy and tight-fisted.
1) I should say that Barbara is a real savior of souls, as she helps common people a lot.
2) In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it is more dangerous to lose than to win.
3) His wife wrote “He’s always charging the family for the things he does around the house, even for the vegetables he grows in the back garden”.
4) Sometimes it’s difficult for him to say what’s on his mind because he doesn’t want to hurt other people or make them sad.
5) A few people might be sarcastic and say the opposite of their true thoughts; they hope that other people will still understand them.
6) Although she was hoping for quiet morning alone, she agreed to help the anxious woman.
7) Fed up with the stress and pressures of living in Manhattan, Joe decided to escape the hustle and bustle of city life for the dream of a new life with a cultic group.
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8) Having become suspicious, the boss uncovered the passwords of his employees and began bugging their e-mail.
9) She becomes angry so easily even if a child throws something at another child.
10) They met each other only a month ago and got married.
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