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प्रश्न
Vocabulary Extension - Choose several words from the text. Use a dictionary or internet to build up more associations/collocations of each word.
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उत्तर
Do it Yourself.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
You came across the words, plod, trudge, stagger in the story. These words indicate movement accompanied by weariness. Find five other such words with a similar meaning.
Form groups and explain the following words with examples. You can take help of your teacher.
Gratitude
Form groups and explain the following words with examples. You can take help of your teacher.
Sympathy
Fill in the blank selecting the correct phrase from the alternatives given.
[be completely stumped, be broken, feel out of place, speak at length, feel at home, sea of knowledge, broaden one’s horizon, one’s second innings, touch the hearts, keep one going]
When he lost his mother he was completely ________.
Fill in the blank selecting the correct phrase from the alternatives given.
[be completely stumped, be broken, feel out of place, speak at length, feel at home, a sea of knowledge, broaden one’s horizon, one’s second innings, touch the hearts, keep one going]
The work done by Sindhutai Sapkal _______ of millions.
The rhyme scheme in the first stanza is ‘aabb’. Find rhyme schemes in the second and third stanzas.
Identify the rhyme scheme of all the stanzas of the poem.
From the story, find the collocation of the following.
widely ..........
Using a dictionary, find the difference between the following pairs of phrases. Make sentences of your own with each of them.
| Phrases | Meaning | Own Sentences |
| 1. to cut in to cut out |
____________ ____________ |
____________ ____________ |
| 2. to be held by to be held up |
____________ ____________ |
____________ ____________ |
| 3. to run away to run for | ____________ ____________ |
____________ ____________ |
| 4. to be known as to be known for |
____________ ____________ |
____________ ____________ |
| 5. to go with to go after | ____________ ____________ |
____________ ____________ |
| 6. to put fire into to put fire out |
____________ ____________ |
____________ ____________ |
Find a synonym from the story for the following word.
Contentment
