Acknowledge an accomplishment, as in They really should give her credit for the work she’s done. [Late 1700s] The phrase is sometimes amplified to give credit where credit is due, meaning the acknowledgment should be to the person who deserves it.

Barthes’ Semiotic Theory broke down the process of reading signs and focused on their interpretation by different cultures or societies. According to Barthes, signs had both a signifier, being the physical form of the sign as we perceive it through our senses and the signified, or meaning that is interpreted.

Barthes’s essay argues against traditional literary criticism’s practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text, and instead argues that writing and creator are unrelated. The essay’s first English-language publication was in the American journal Aspen, no.

When the author says some people, he refers to the mentally backward people.

deeply interested or involved; preoccupied: He had an absorbed look on his face.

If you are absorbed in something or someone, you are very interested in them and they take up all your attention and energy. They were completely absorbed in each other.

absorb. Antonyms: eject, emit, exude, disgorge, dissipate, distract, distil, disperse. Synonyms: swallow, drown, consume, imbibe, engross, drink in, suck up, engulf, monopolize, exhaust.

sober. Antonyms: intemperate, drunk, intoxicated, heated, excited, impassioned, unreasonable, agitated, furious, passionate, extravagant, extreme, exorbitant, immoderate, flighty, erratic, eccentric.

The opposite of ‘high’ is ‘low’. The opposite of ‘sober’ is ‘inebriated’; ‘drunk’; ‘stoned’; ‘blathered’; ‘pissed’.