The key answer of exercise 4
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5 - Reading for the textbook New Headway Advanced - Workbook with authors Liz Soars, John Soars and Paul Hancock from Oxford University Press
Question
Find words in the text that are synonymous with the words in italics.
Answer
- make a home = create a familiar habitat; comfortingly = reassuringly
- makes him better than anybody else = renders him peerless
- extremely tolerant = infinitely patient; extremely interested = infinitely curious
- little difficulties that arise = mishaps and minor disasters
- straightaway = instantly; totally = utterly
- turned white = blanched; forever = indefinitely
- superficial = dilettantish