Compound words starting with the letter a in Russian. Compliments in alphabetical order. Development of phonemic perception, topic: “sound and letter a” for speech therapists, speech pathologists
¦ Silver coin of 20 kopecks; minted by the Russian government in 1802 - 1832; circulated in Georgia, Iran, and Afghanistan.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN: “The first person I met volunteered to take me to the mayor and demanded from me for it abaz"(Travel to Arzrum..)
¦ Iran, abbasi- the name of a silver coin minted by Khan Abbas I in the 17th century.
¦ Lack of will, indecision, unreasonableness.
PETER BOBORYKIN: “He gave himself up to some kind of sweet game, lost himself in a new sense of danger around a captivating woman, surrendered his will to her, did not want to make any conscious efforts on himself. “Abulia” took possession of him. The scientific term accidentally flashed into his head.” (On the damage)
¦ Grech abulia.
¦ In a card game in a bank - each pair of cards when thrown to the right and left.
ALEXANDER KUPRIN: "On the fifth abtsug I - chik him." (Duel)
¦ German Abzug- speech (military).
¦ Resignation, dismissal from service.
FEDOR DOSTOEVSKY: “Even if now the executor himself appeared in the apartment and personally declared Semyon Ivanovich abshied for freethinking, rowdyism and drunkenness, he, perhaps, would not even deign to lift a finger now at such news.” (Mr. Prokharchin)
**Resign, retire.
DENIS DAVYDOV: Tonight I will see you, Tonight my lot will be decided, Today I will get what I want - Or abshid to rest.
(Decisive evening of the hussar)
¦ German Abschied- farewell; resignation.
¦ Insult, resentment.
BOLESLAV MARKEVICH: “They sit by my side. Their sour grandes dames, wives, are furious with me for this and make all sorts of advances at me.” (Fracture)
¦ Grech, Avania- contempt.
¦ 0 people who deliberately deceive or mislead others, as well as those who turn their knowledge into some kind of secret, presenting it in an incomprehensible, sophisticated language.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV: “Then, looking into each other’s eyes, as Roman augurs do, according to Cicero, we began to laugh and, having laughed, dispersed satisfied with our evening.” (Hero of our time)
¦ Augurs are bird-divining priests in Ancient Rome; the deceptions and quackery of the augurs were so well known to everyone that Cato was surprised how an augur could look at another augur without laughing (Cicero wrote about this).
¦ Light messenger and reconnaissance vessel of the military fleet of old Russia.
KONSTANTIN STANYUKOVICH: “Despite the outward calm of the admiral, his heart trembled when the cruiser, turning between two ships, seemed about to fall on the small French advice note. Fortunately, on the “French” they thought of setting the rope, and the advice note moved back. " (In the sea!)
¦ Italian. avviso, from Spanish barca de aviso.
Tavern, hotel; sometimes - austeria.
PAVEL ANNENKOV: “We stayed either in a poor austeria, which stood solitary along the road, or in a hotel in some small town.” (Memories)
¦ Polish. austerja, from Italian asteria.
¦ The title of landowner, boss in old Turkey; the person holding this title.
IVAN TURGENEV: "Insarov's mother suddenly went missing... There were rumors that she was kidnapped and killed by a Turkish aga." (The day before)
¦ Old-tour. aga - elder brother, elder in general; Mr.
¦ According to biblical legend - the descendants of Ishmael, the son of Hagar, the ancestor of the Arabs; Ishmaelites or Arabs; inhabitants of Arabia, otherwise: Saracens.
IVAN TURGENEV: “One narrator said: there was a certain country, and the Hagarians conquered that country.” (Living Relics)
¦ By the name of the Egyptian woman Hagar, who lived in the family of Abraham as a servant and gave birth to his son Ishmael (Genesis, XVI, 1).
¦ City Square; market, bazaar
LEO MAY: The citizens were amazed at the auction - the elders, and the men, and the wives, and everyone who was in the agora. (Galatea)
¦ Greek, agora.
¦ fastener, buckle or brooch in elegant clothes.
ALEXANDER KUPRIN: “The king is wearing a simple white cloak, fastened on the right shoulder and on the left side with two Egyptian agraphs made of green gold.” (Shulamith)
¦ French agrafe- clasp.
¦ Diamond, diamond; about a strong and decisive person.
ALEXANDER OSTROVSKY: Minin He is our affirmation and pillar, He is a solid adamant in general vacillation. (Kozma Zakharyin Minin-Sukhoruk)
¦ Grech, and damas, anthos- diamond.
The Adam's apple is the prominent cartilaginous part of the larynx.
PETER BOBORYKIN: “[Zagarin’s] eyes sparkled brightly, his thin neck with its steep Adam’s apple trembled with nervous pulsation.” (On the damage)
¦ The expression is based on the belief that part of the forbidden fruit eaten by Adam (in biblical legends - the first man) got stuck in his throat.
¦ Memorable times, the times of Adam and Eve; a long time ago.
IVAN KRYLOV: "(Novodomova:] It was in Adam's centuries, my life, and not now." (Coffee shop)
¦ Caucasian people Adyghe; in old Russia the same as the Circassians.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN: Not for bandit fun. The adekhi gathered so early.. (Tazit)
¦ Noon, time for breakfast or early lunch.
NIKOLAI SHCHEDRIN: “Then, since the “admiral’s hour” had already arrived, the gentlemen officials went to the landowner to have some bread and salt.” (Poshekhon antiquity)
¦ Initially, the time of the lunch break at work, which the population of St. Petersburg learned about daily by the shot of a cannon from the Admiralty (later from Peter and Paul Fortress), introduced on February 6, 1865. Peter I, the founder of the Russian fleet, had a custom: after work, at 11 o’clock, drink vodka with his employees (naval noon).
¦ Fan, admirer.
NIKOLAI LESKOV: “The dancer broke up with her adorator, the prince..” (On knives)
¦ French. adorateur.
¦ In old Russia, a book was published annually indicating institutions, positions and names of officials of all departments.
ALEXANDER GRIBOEDOV:
Repetilov His secretaries are all boors, all corrupt, Little people, writing creatures, All have come into the nobility, all are important now. Look at the calendar address. (Woe from Wit)
¦ Outer long-skirted peasant clothing (men's and women's) made of thin fabric.
MIKHAIL ZAGOSKIN: “This traveler’s servant was dressed very simply: he was wearing a white felt hat, a hemline stitch and a long single-row saddle stitch made of thick homespun cloth.” (Bryn Forest)
¦ Azerbaijan, Arab. Adzam— Persia; tour. adzam - Persian; Polish adziamski- Persian rug
¦ The monkey is a sloth.
LEV MAY: I rebelled against the lives of those homebodies - landowners who, like ai In their hollow, in the corner of their fathers and grandfathers, Sit all their lives, no matter what you call them. (Village)
¦ Pluto (Hades).
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN: ...Can’t you, friend, at idle times, take me to the graveyard basement, abundant in idle bones, and meanwhile help me bring one skeleton into the light? I swear to you by the Aides god: He will be my guarantee of friendship... (Message to Delvig)
¦ From Greek, Hades - the underground kingdom The Lord of the kingdom of the dead, living underground, was invisible and terrible (which is what the name Hades means), but hospitable (the fate of death does not escape anyone) and rich, for he is the owner of countless human souls and hidden in the earth treasures, which is what his other name means - Pluto.
¦ Exquisite, similar to the poses of the sitters at the Academy of Arts.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV: “They are dandies: lowering their braided glass into a well of sour sulfur water, they take academic poses..and (Hero of our time. Princess Mary)
¦ Graduate from the Smorgon Academy - jokingly or ironically about people who received a dubious higher education.
NIKOLAI SHCHEDRIN: “Well, gentlemen!” - he begins, having first treaded water in one place, as befits any speaker who received his initial education in the city of Sergach and then graduated with honor from a course of science at the Smorgon Academy." (Satires in prose)
¦ After the name of the town of Smorgon (France), where bears were trained. The Greek word “academy” is originally the name of a grove located near Athens, where the hero Academus was buried, who showed the Dioscuri twins where their sister, the beautiful Helen, kidnapped by Tesrem, was hidden. In the 4th century BC, the philosopher Plato taught in this grove, then his students, and their school received the name “Academy.”
ALEXANDER MARLINSKY: “The French, who so recently had the wars of the League, St. Bartholomew’s Night, the aqua-tofana and crystal daggers of the Medicis, the Vitry pistol and the Ravaillac knife, who slaughtered passers-by on the streets in broad daylight and easily broke the gates - they were afraid of splashes at the theater blood, drops of poison, hid all the catastrophes behind the scenes, and the messenger usually came in to report about them in drum verses." (About N. Polevoy’s novel “The Oath at the Holy Sepulchre”)
¦ Cold cruel wind.
MIKHAIL LERMONTOV: The view of the steppe is sad, where without obstacles, disturbing only the silver feather grass, the flying aquilon wanders and freely drives dust before it. (1831 June U day)
¦ Lat. Aquilo, Oflis- the name of the north wind among the ancient Romans.
¦ In the Middle Ages - part of the knighting ritual: a blow with the flat of a sword on the shoulder, a hug, etc.
VASILY ZHUKOVSKY: The king himself hung a sword to his hip with his own hand, Gave him the kiss of peace: But he didn’t give him an accolade. (Sid)
¦ French. accolade, from lat. ad- at and colum- neck.
¦ Dense silk fleecy fabric in the form of velvet or brocade.
ALEXEY K. TOLSTOY: Cats made of axamite With colored stones, And the ankles are entwined crosswise with a golden frill. (Matchmaking)
¦ Greek, examitos - six-strand, from ex - six and mitos - thread.
¦ A term of medieval scholasticism, denoting the unimportant changeable properties of a thing, opposed to its unchangeable essence - substance; sometimes it’s an accident.
ALEXANDER HERTZEN: “Spinoza, who sacrificed everything to philosophy, saw only the substance around which the world of accidents revolves.”* (Diary 1844)
¦¦ Extortions, bribes.
NIKOLAI SHCHEDRIN: “[Nabryushnikov] took accidents almost exclusively in provisions.” (Well-intentioned speeches)
¦ Lat. accidentia- accident.
¦ Cossack clothes made of axamite.
NIKOLAI GOGOL: “The expensive akshamet was torn on him.” (Taras Bulba)
¦ Anxiety, confusion, commotion; sometimes alarm.
¦ French. alarme; Italian allarm e( all arm- to weapons).
¦ Clearing, lawn in the forest.
VLADIMIR KOROLENKO: “He went out, caught an old Lysanka in the alas, led him by the mane to the sleigh and began to harness him.” (Makar's Dream)
¦ A type of paper fabric, colored motley; var. Xandrake.
ANDREY PECHERSKY: “Alexey was taking out his festive dress from packing: a good blue cloth smock, corduroy trousers, a shirt from Alexandria.” (In forests)
¦ Made from alexandria - paper fabric, dyed motley.
IVAN TURGENEV: “Look, master, don’t drown us,” remarked one of the rowers, a young snub-nosed guy in an Alexandrian shirt.” (The day before)
¦ March! Out! Leave!
NIKOLAI LESKOV: “Ale mashir - at the door!” - Termosesov commanded." (Soboryans)
¦ French. aller- go and be silent. marschiereti- march.
ANTON CHEKHOV: “I learned all of Kühner, I’ve already read the alivruver of Cornelius Nepos and in Greek I went through almost all of Curtius...” (Tumbleweeds)
¦ From the French. a livre Oil ver- from an open book, from an open place (read, translate).
¦ A type of brocade woven with gold.
ALEXANDER RADISHCHEV:
The benches were all covered with dug velvet, brocade, and weaved Altabas. (Bova)
¦ Tat. ALTYN calico - gold canvas woven with gold.
¦ Petty trader; miser, selfish person.
IVAN TURGENEV: “Do you have any idea about Falaleev? - None. - The first altynnik in Moscow. Bourgeois - one word!” (New)
¦ From ALTYN - the name of an ancient Russian coin of 3 kopecks. Tat. alts - six.
¦ Greed, gluttony for food and drink.
NIKOLAI ZLATOVRATSKY: “He thinks: I’ll drink more, I’ll be content, full - he’ll drink, but greed torments him even more.” (Foundations)
¦¦ Passionate desire for something.
ALEXANDER RADISHCHEV: "We incite science with greed, Lomonosov leaves his parents' home." (Travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow)
¦ Old Russian hunger, fasting
¦ Policeman, guard; sometimes he was greedy.
GOAT ROD:
It’s not for nothing that he’s vile,
Old alguasil.
To me with an insolent hand
Just now he threatened.
(Wishing to be Spanish)
¦ Spanish algiacil- bailiff, policeman, minister in old Spain; Arab, al-wazir— vizier, wasil- power.
¦ High-grade fabric made from alpaga wool (alpaca), a llama native to the mountains of South America.
NIKOLAI LESKOV: “The strictest lines of her figure glittered with silver on the breaks of the white alpaca that covered her.” (At knives)
¦ French. alpaga (alpaca).
¦ Hostage.
LEV TOLSTOY: “Gamzat is ready to send a sheikh to teach us khazavat, but only so that the khansha sends her youngest son to him as amanate.” (Hadji Murat)
¦ Arab, amatia t - thing given for safekeeping, pledge, hostage.
¦ Amateur.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN: “The other day I saw some amateur doctor at Peschurov.” (V.A. Zhukovsky, August 17 /825)
¦¦ A lover, a hunter of something.
NIKOLAI GOGOL: “[Zhevakin:] But to tell the truth, I liked her because she’s a plump woman. I’m a big amateur when it comes to female plumpness.” (Marriage)
¦ French. amateur, from lat. amateur- amateur.
BARNKADER
¦ The same as a landing stage - a pier for ships or a platform at a railway station.
NIKOLAI LESKOV: "They drove away from the St. Petersburg barncade of the Warsaw railway"(Bypassed)
¦ French. ebarcadere- parking place.
AMBROSIA
¦ Incense, aroma; sometimes - ambrosia.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN: Only roses wither, Breathing more in the atmosphere, Their light soul flies to Elysium. (Only roses fade...)
¦ Greek. ambrosia is the aromatic food of the gods, which gave them beauty.
BONHOMIE
¦ Unceremonious, inappropriate familiar treatment under the guise of friendship.
DMITRY MAMIN-SIBIRYAK: “What would Lea say if she saw his mischief with Gavryushka?” (A man with a past)
¦ French. ami- friend and cochon- pig.
AMPOSH
¦ Pocket money.
ALEXANDER OSTROVSKY: “[Neschastlivtsev:] I’m happy now, Arkady; I did a good thing. [Schastlivtsev:] Yes, sir, good. And even better, if only this money... [Neschastlivtsev:] What? [Schastlivtsev:] Ampo- she." (Forest)
¦ French. empocher- put in your pocket; poche - pocket.
ANGLES
¦ Ancient dance; music for this dance; the name of various folk dances of English origin in Europe in the 17th -19th centuries.
LEO TOLSTOY: “At this, the last ball, only ecosaises, anglaises and the mazurka, which was just coming into fashion, were danced.” (War and Peace)
¦ French. anglaise (danse anglaise)- English dance.
ENGLISH GARDEN
¦ Garden, fashionable in the 18th century. in England.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN: “He did not like the ancient garden with its trimmed linden trees, quadrangular pond and regular alleys: he loved English gardens and so-called nature.” (Dubrovsky)
¦ ENGLISH Garden, in contrast to the ancient French garden, which consisted of symmetrical paths with statues and fountains, sought to imitate the natural landscape: there were regularly located groups of trees, lawns, ponds, and light buildings were scattered everywhere.
ANDREEVSKAYA TAPE
¦ Blue ribbon over the right shoulder, sign of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN: "The St. Andrew's ribbon, the title of senator and the rank of guard colonel did not find him alive." (Pugachev's story)
¦ The Order was established by Peter I in 1698 in the name of St. Apostle Andrew the First-Called, who, according to legend, preached Christianity in the territory Ancient Rus'. Badges of the order: 1) cross of blue color in a double-headed eagle crowned with three crowns with St. Apostle Andrew crucified on it, at the four ends of the cross letters S.A.P.R., meaning Sanctus Andreas Patronus Russiae; on back side order, in the middle of the eagle, a charter on which is written the order's motto "For Faith and Fidelity", 2) a silver star, having in the middle, in a golden field, a double-headed eagle, crowned with three crowns, and in the middle of the eagle - St. Andrew's cross, in a circle same, in a blue field, at the top is the order's motto in gold letters, and at the bottom are two tied laurel branches; the star was worn on the left side; 3) blue ribbon over the right shoulder.
ANNA
¦ An order in the form of a cross in old Russia (since 1742), given to officials and military personnel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY: “I’m curious if Mr. Luzhin has any orders; I bet he has Anna in his buttonhole and that he wears it to dinners with contractors and merchants.” (Crime and Punishment)
ANINSKAYA TAPE
¦ Additional badge of the Order of St. Annin.
ANTON CHEKHOV: “[Krylin] was in a uniform with Annin’s ribbon and white pants.” (Indian kingdom)
ANTECEDENT
¦ Previous circumstance, action, example.
BOLESLAW MARKEVICH: “With what right, due to what antecedents?” (Fracture)
¦ Lat. ante-cedentis - a preceding circumstance, an efficient cause.
ANTIQUE
¦ A surviving work of ancient Greek (Hellenic) or Roman art.
APOLLO MIKOV:
I saw them: open antiques in the ground,,
In the palaces of the dear ones, the faces of Mythical gods and valiant people are erected.
(After visiting the Vatican Museum)
¦¦ 0 all kinds of objects bearing the imprint of antiquity; about rarities.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN: Under the image, a simple night light made of clay slightly illuminated the deep wrinkles, a precious antique, a great-grandmother’s cap, and a long mouth, where two teeth were chattering. (Dream)
¦¦¦ About the person: an eccentric, a rare person, not of this world.
ALEXANDER OSTROVSKY: “[Kuligin:] Have you looked closely, or don’t understand what beauty is poured out in nature. [Kudryash:] Well, yes, after all, there’s no point in talking with you! You’re an antique, a chemist.” (Storm)
¦ French. antique, from lat. antiquus- ancient
ANTIQUE WITH CLOVE
¦ Very good, excellent (with a playful expression of praise, admiration).
DMITRY MAMIN-SIBIRYAK: “Taste our Dvina salmon, it will be better than your Pechora salmon. And Little Russian salsa - antique with cloves.” (For a while)
ANTONOV FIRE
¦ Gangrene; inflammatory erysipelas.
GOAT OF RODS: Antonov is fire, but there is no law for it to always belong to Anton. (The landowner and the grass)
IVAN TURGENEV: “Yes, Vasily Dmitrich, it’s bad: if you had come to me two days earlier, and nothing would have gone away, but now you have an inflammation, that’s what: Antonov, the fire will break out.” (Death)
¦ French. fetl d'antoine- originally the name of an epidemic disease that spread in Western Europe in the 11th century; According to legend, the relics of St. Anthony of Padua healed from it. Thanks to this healing of one young nobleman, the young man’s father founded the Brotherhood of St. Anthony in 1095.
ANTRE
¦ The main entrance to the building.
ALEXEY POTEKHIN: “Having followed them into the theater’s entree, he saw Nadenka.” (Krushinsky)
¦¦ At formal dinners - the first course, an appetizer before dinner.
LEV TOLSTOY: “Yes, my father, I forgot. After all, we also need another entrée for the table.” (War and Peace)
¦ French. entree— entrance (to the building); first course).
ANTUKA
¦ Umbrella; about something that is suitable for any occasion.
NIKOLAI LESKOV: “Now some style of antuk predominates in everything - something ready just in case and suitable for all weather: from rain and sun.” (Antuka)
¦ French. en-tout-cas- just in case; umbrella for protection from rain and snow.
APARANCES TO OBSERVE
¦ Maintain decorum.
KONSTANTIN STANYUKOVICH: “She is a girl so pretty that no one can say that he married solely for money - one can suspect a little love, therefore, the “paranzas” are observed.” (Frank)
¦ French. carder les apparences.
APOCRYPHAL
¦ Not recognized as reliable; counterfeit; untrue.
NIKOLAI LESKOV: “This society itself considers all the considerations made about Sentyanina to be apocryphal.” (At knives)
¦ Grech, apocryphos- hidden, secret, secret; counterfeit.
APOPLEXIC STRIKE
¦ Nervous shock, loss of limbs; cerebral hemorrhage accompanied by paralysis; paralysis; Kondrashka.
NIKOLAI NEKRASOV: There have been cases: the whole century was considered smart man, And in the book I found myself stupid: My intelligence, style, and heat were gone, As if the poor man had suffered an apoplexy! (Bear Hunt)
¦ Greek APOPLEKTOS- paralyzed.
APOSTROPHE
¦ A caustic, ironic word addressed to someone; offensive phrase; shout.
NIKOLAI SHCHEDRIN: “Hello, salamalika! How are you going to first grade?” But the eastern man only smiled affably at this apostrophe." ( Cultured people)
¦ Grech, apostrophos- facing to the side; apostrophe - disgust, deviation. Franz. apostrophe- a shout, a sharp remark.
APOSTROPHATE
¦ Address someone with a speech, sometimes with abuse.
NIKOLAI SHCHEDRIN: “Vlas! You are an honest man!” he apostrophized him. “You understand me! You understand how deeply, deeply unhappy I am.” (Poshekhon antiquity)
¦ French. apostropher- call out, address someone.
APOTHEGM
¦ A short witty saying; moralizing maxim.
BOLESLAW MARKEVICH: “As a lawyer, you probably know the old apothegm: “look for a woman”!” (Fracture)
¦ Greek, apothegma - saying.
APPLIKE
¦ Applied silver.
NIKOLAI GOGOL: “It will even be possible the way fashion has gone: the collar will be fastened with silver paws under the appliqué.” (Overcoat)
¦ French. application- application; overlay
ARAB
¦ A partial, cut or worn-out chervonets (gold coin in denomination of three rubles; in colloquial use - in denomination of both five and ten rubles); sometimes - a blackamoor.
ALEXANDER OSTROVSKY: "[Agrafena Kondratievna:] Apparently, I should ask Samson Silych for a couple of Arabs." (We will count our own people)
¦ The chervonets were worn out not only from long-term handling, but also because some people deliberately rubbed them hard on the cloth in order to burn off the gold that had stuck to it, while others simply cut off the chervonets along the edges. Such inferior chervonets were accepted in banks and treasuries below their face value.
ARAC
¦ Strong alcoholic drink (barley, wheat, etc.), sometimes arrack.
DENIS DAVYDOV: Burtsov, bully, bully, dear drinking buddy! For God's sake and... arak, visit my little house! (To Burtsov)
¦ Turk, Arak, from Arab, araq- sweat; alcoholic drink.
ARGUS
¦ 0 vigilant watchman; about a constant observer of someone (usually ironically).
DMITRY MAMIN-SIBIRYAK: “The doctor spent several hours with the girls every day, and, of course, Miss Doodle was present as an argus.” (Bread)
¦ Lat. Argus, FROM Greek. Argos- a many-eyed giant, whom the goddess Hera assigned to Io, the daughter of the Argive king, who became the beloved of Zeus. Fearing the wrath of his jealous wife, Zeus turned Io into a snow-white heifer, but Hera demanded her as a gift and assigned Argus to her.
ARED'S EYELIDS
¦ To live, to stand forever - about longevity
NIKOLAI LESKOV: “The buildings were all very dilapidated and had stood, apparently, for centuries.” (Pechersk Antiques)
¦ On behalf of the biblical patriarch Yared, who, according to legend, lived 962 years.
PRISONER COMPANIES
¦ Introduced in the 20s of the XIX century. a form of punishment for soldiers was imprisonment in companies expelled from the central regions to the outskirts of the empire, with the use of hard forced labor and increased penalties.
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By giving someone compliments, we thus show our admiration, praise and approval - by his manners, appearance or correctly expressed thoughts. Almost always compliments bring positive emotions - after all, every person has a little pride and vanity.
Compliments are necessary; they create the necessary atmosphere of good mood. A compliment must be truthful and natural, unobtrusive and not have a hidden negative connotation. If you try not to throw words left and right, but express a positive attitude towards the interlocutor, then this can give the conversation the necessary ease. But if a compliment feels mocking, pretentious or understated, then it becomes vulgar and offensive.
Compliments are successful if they are delivered at the right place and time. When spoken at the right moment, in a polite, elegant form, praise will bring pleasure to the person for whom it is intended. Pronounced compliments can instill confidence in a shy person, help relax a withdrawn person, and lift the mood of someone who is sad. But when giving a compliment, you should avoid excessive delight and exaggeration.
You should not give compliments without thinking at all about the form in which they were delivered and how timely they were. Praise should not contain open flattery. Often a girl is told: “You look great today!” Now imagine that instead of being grateful for the praise she received, a woman asks: “Did I really look much worse yesterday?” or to “How beautiful you are today!”, and in response the question involuntarily arises: “But on other days you can’t say this about me?” When giving a compliment, it is always important to remember: it should not have hidden meaning, subtext. Compliments said casually, in passing, sound indecent, and one should not be surprised that the response to such words is also not serious.
It is undesirable to give moralizing advice with a compliment, for example: “This color suits you very well, you should dress in this color scheme.” You must give compliments in a confident voice, with a smile, kindly and with all your heart. You should avoid cheap theatrical effects, ostentatious facial expressions, feigned enthusiasm, and gestures must correspond to the spoken words. There is no need to allow even hints of irony in compliments.
When planning to give a compliment, it is important to calculate the possible reaction to it. If you expect a negative reaction to a compliment you have given, then it would be better to refrain from pronouncing it. When giving a compliment to one girl, it is important to be careful, because these words can be heard by another girl and an awkward situation will result. Often this can worsen the mood of a woman who accidentally overheard, in which case a dual situation may result. Guys don’t give each other compliments; it’s considered stupid and looks funny coming from the mouth of the one who says them, indecent, at least if they don’t look like an innocent joke. It is inappropriate for a man to compliment unfamiliar women, and especially girls.
A woman, having received pleasant words from a man, should not give in to flattery. Usually, it is important to accept any compliment very carefully, since imaginary love and false affection are hidden in the pleasant words expressed.
What then should be a person’s reaction to a compliment? What should you do when receiving compliments?
It is necessary to thank you from the bottom of my heart; a short “thank you” will suffice. If it is noticeable that a person is openly fawning, simply limit yourself to words of polite gratitude. Questions and comments (in response to inappropriate or backhanded compliments) should be kept to yourself. When accepting praise, do not argue with the person. Don't downplay your strengths. If a person admires your appearance, you don’t need to respond by talking about how you feel unwell, even if you really don’t feel well.