1. creaky 2. peered
3. acquaintance 4. detachment
5. raptures 6. giddy
7. overwhelmed 8. obliged
III. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.
1. obscurity 2. acquainted
3. perceptible
5. indifferent
IV. Fill in the blank in each sentence with an appropriate phrasal verb or collocation taken from the text.
1. save up
2. care about
3. indulges in
4. reached for
5. peered about
6. deals in
7. was substituted
8. better off
V. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.
1. Antonym: perceptible (perceivable, noticeable)
2. Synonym: postmortem
3. Synonym: anxiously (fearfully)
4. Antonym: temporary (transient)
5. Antonym: grave (cheerless)
6. Synonym: profoundly (rigorously, strongly)
7. Antonym: apathetically (indifferently)
8. Synonym: reason
VI. Explain the underlined phrasal verbs in your own words.
1. expect
3. accept
5. was
4. apprehension 8. disobliging 6. rapt 7. overwhelmingly 2. have 4. imagine 6. work out 8. demanded 7. became popular