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प्रश्न
Classify the words in (a) and (b) into ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ words.
- great, beautiful, arrogant, impatient, quiet, worthless, proud, happy, thoughtless, hasty
- shouted at, wasted, answered, offered, smiled, refused, toiled, grew, dyed, rewarded, destroyed.
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उत्तर
| Positive words | Negative words |
| (a) happy, great, beautiful, quiet | proud, thoughtless, hasty, arrogant, impatient, worthless |
| (b) offered, smiled, grew, dyed, rewarded, answered | refused, toiled, destroyed, shouted at, wasted |
संबंधित प्रश्न
Words that have the same spelling, but differ in meaning when used in different contexts are called homographs. For example,
- A temple fair attracts a lot of crowds.
Her performance in the test was fair. - A rose is the king of flowers.
The sun rose with a golden glow.
Think of 5 homographs and list them below. Then write 2 sentences of your own, to bring out the difference in meanings.
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Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.
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Read the following sentence and change the form of the underlined word as directed.
His family was screaming and offering him food. (to adjective)
Use the blended word in your own sentence.
Spanglish -
Join the sentence of Column A with B using the words given in the box.
| A | B |
| 1. The clouds moved away | he helped Velu in time. |
| 2. Velu thanked his friend | the sun came out. |
| 3. It rained heavily | you will get choked. |
| 4. Eat slowly | the match continued. |
| and but or because |
Fill in the blank with suitable homophone:
We should never misuse or ______natural resources.
Look at the following words and classify them according to their fields.
| clinical, orthopedic, dividend, operations, fertile, Carnatic, diagnostics, industries, keyboard, hacker, desktop, vocal, cultivation, organic, unplugged, disease, harvest, livestock, mother-board, investment, internet, proxy, recycle bin, orchestra, trade, hip-hop, uprooting, guitar, cure, contracts |
| Music | |||
| Agriculture | |||
| Computer | |||
| Commerce | |||
| Medicine |
Combine the sentence and rewrite them using the word given in the bracket.
The culprit was caught. Immediately, he was taken to the police station. (as soon as)
Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.
I tried hard ______both ends meet.
Fill in the blank with the correct infinitive.
We have plans ______to London during summer vacation.
