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Choose the best word from those given to complete each of the sentences which follow.
enthusiastic confused cross thrilled depressed
upset fed-up frustrated discontented
1 I didn't know who was telling the truth. I felt totally ..................................
2 Some mothers are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . for several months after the birth of a baby.
3 I think she is bad-tempered because she is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . She wanted to be an
actress and not a school-teacher.
4 Although he seems to have everything anyone could possibly want, he is still
..................................
5 He went skiing for the first time last month, but now he is so .................................
about it that he can talk of little else.
6 My baby brother gets very ................................. by the evening if he doesn't have an
afternoon sleep.
7 This rainy weather has gone on for so long. I feel really . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . with it.
8 He was terribly ................................. when he heard the news of his friend's accident.
9 She was ................................. when she learnt that she had won the first prize.
Write sentences about when you have experienced the following feelings.
Example: anxious I felt anxious until we heard the results of my mother's medical tests.
1 anxious 3 grateful 5 miserable 7 enthusiastic
2 apprehensive 4 in a rage 6 inspired
68.4 The words opposite ending in -ed (apart from contented and delighted) also have -ing forms
e.g. interestedhnteresting and bored/boring. Add the correct ending -ed or -ing.
Example: She was thrilled by her present.
1 I found the film very excit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2 The poet was inspir.. .............. by the sunset.
3 This weather is terribly depress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 It is very frustrat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . when the phones aren't working.
5 She was confus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . by the ambiguous remarks he made to her.