Лексикология английского языка

III. Say why the italicized synonyms in the examples giv­en below are not interchangeable.

1. 
   a) The little boys stood glaring at each other ready to start a fight, b) The Greek myth runs that Narcissus gazed at his own reflection in the water until he fell in love with it and died. 2. a) She is a very pretty Ameri­can girl of twenty-two, with fair hair and blue eyes.
   

¹ A. Gandelstnan. English Synonyms Explained and Illus­trated. M., 1963; G. Crabb. English Synonyms. H. Y. Grosset and Dunlap, 1945; N. Webster. Webster's Synonyms, Anto­nyms and Homonyms. N. Y., 1962; Ю. Д. Апресян, В. В. Ботякова, Т. Э. Латышева и др. Англо-русский сино­нимический словарь. М., 1979.