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. - English Core

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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.

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Other words are lurch, stumble, slog, hike, clump, traipse and stomp.

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संबंधित प्रश्न

Match the pairs of the words in column ‘A’ with their meaning in column ‘B’ :

Column ‘A’ Column ‘B’
(i) dangling (a) connected with farming
(ii) squeezing (b) attract the attention
(iii) agrarian (c) hanging freely
(iv) captivate (d) pressing firmly

Give antonyms of the following words by adding prefixes :

(i) gratitude
(ii) clear
(iii) believe
(iv) significance

English is a language that contains words from many other languages. This inclusiveness is one of the reasons it is now a world language, for example:-

petite – French

kindergarten – German

capital – Latin

democracy – Greek

bazaar – Hindi

Find out the origin of the following words.

Tycoon, tulip, logo, bandicoot, barbecue, veranda, robot, zero, ski, trek

Notice these words in the story.

• “chuffed”, meaning delighted or very pleased

• “nosey”, meaning inquisitive

• “gawky”, meaning awkward, ungainly

These are words that are used in an informal way in colloquial speech.

Make a list of ten other words of this kind.

List other words that you know that fall into this category.

Form groups and explain the following words with examples. You can take help of your teacher.

Generosity

Form groups and explain the following words with examples. You can take help of your teacher.

Sympathy

Conchology means the scientific study or collection of mollusc shell. Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of Etymology.

Conchology means the scientific study or collection of mollusc shell. Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of Archaeology

Choose appropriate phrases/expressions from the extract given in the options and fill in the blank appropriately.

I was on diet for some days but today I am going to eat _______.

The verbs in bold letters are made up of a verb and a small adverb.
(Adverb particles are not the same as prepositions.)
For example, shake (verb) + up (adverb). These are called ‘phrasal verbs.’ The meaning of a phrasal verb may be idiomaticdifferent from the meanings of the two separate words.

Read carefully the following sentence from the text and underline the phrasal verb.

But there is, for the traveller at least, the sense that learning about home and.......

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]

To succeed in any competitive examination, one requires a _______.

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 teacher _______ explaining the concept.

Make a word register for clothes/attire/dress.

Write an appreciation of the poem 'Indian Weavers' by Sarojini Naidu.

About the poem/poet and the title
The theme
Poetic style
The language/poetic devices used in the poem
Special features
Message, values, morals in the poem
Your opinion about the poem

Compose four lines on ‘Importance of clothes.’

Select the appropriate figure of speech from the box given below and complete the table.

Metaphor, Alliteration, Repetition, Personification, Inversion, Simile, Apostrophe, Onomatopoeia

Examples	Figure of Speech	Explanation
1. Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair.	Alliteration	The close repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Compose 4 to 6 lines on ‘sea’.

There are a few examples of homonyms in the poem. For example ‘spoke’. List homonyms from the poem and give their meanings.

The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is ‘aabb’. Find the rhyme scheme of other stanzas

Complete the following using suitable describing word as appeared in the poem with the help of the words given in the option:

Father’s attire

Identify and write the lines from the poem which express the following figures of speech.

Figures of speech	Lines
1. Simile
2. Alliteration
3. Onomatopoeia

I see him drinking weak tea, Eating a stale chapati.

Here ‘stale chapati’ stands for stale food/non-nourishing food or diet, where the part symbolizes the whole, i.e. food. Guess the name of the figure of speech.

Find out from the poem example of Antithesis.

Read the expression ‘a sad wreath of tuberoses’. ‘Is the wreath sad?’ Explain the figure of speech.

Find from the text the collocation for the following.

ticket ______