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Fill in the blank with the word given in option. Thomas Alva Edison did not lose his ______, even after facing a series of experimental failures in his quest to discover tungsten.

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Fill in the blank with the word given in option.

Thomas Alva Edison did not lose his ______, even after facing a series of experimental failures in his quest to discover tungsten.

पर्याय

  • profound

  • amusement

  • confidence

  • agony

  • solace

  • intrepid

  • disfigured

  • perforated

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Thomas Alva Edison did not lose his confidence, even after facing a series of experimental failures in his quest to discover tungsten.

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पाठ 3.1: In Celebration of Being Alive - Vocabulary [पृष्ठ ७२]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
पाठ 3.1 In Celebration of Being Alive
Vocabulary | Q d) 6. | पृष्ठ ७२

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Fill in the blanks with words from the box.

lonely

little

hard

young

thoughtful

delicious

beautiful

A __________ woodcutter lived on a ____________ hillside. He was a ___________ son who worked _____________ but earned ____________ money. One day he saw a ____________ waterfall hidden behind a rock. He tasted the water and found it _________________.


Give the Antonyms and Synonyms of the words below, choosing from those given.

Synonyms Antonyms
lustre, rise victory, competitor, old-fashioned, joyfully, foreign, pause partner, dullness, start, sorrowfully, drop, modem, native, defeat

 

Words Synonyms Antonyms
happily ____________ ____________
traditional ____________ ____________
halt ____________ ____________
triumph ____________ ____________
exotic ____________ ____________
rival ____________ ____________
soar ____________ ____________
brilliance ____________ ____________

Find from the poem, three examples of Alliteration :

  1. ___________________
  2. ___________________
  3. ___________________

Complete the following idioms using the appropriate colour term.

out of the ______ (suddenly, unexpectedly).


What is adverbial?


The following expression is a combination of a noun preceded by a describing word.

modern technique

Replace the describing word with as many others as you can, that goes with the underlined noun.


Write the gerund/infinitive form of the verb in the blank

They learned how __________ (survive) in space without gravity.


Read the situation given and frame two suitable sentence in the appropriate form of the tense.

Give two instructions to your classmates. 1. ______
2. ______

Read the following sentences carefully and underline the preposition.

Divya hid the sweets behind her back.


Fruits ____ good for health.


Identify the non-finite in the following sentence and underline them.

Roshan dreams of becoming an architect.


Transform the following sentence as instructed.

As Varun is a voracious reader, he buys a lot of books. (into Simple)


They are going home from school, ______?


Kevin will come tonight, _______?


Write the correct clipped word on the line.

She bought a new ________ (refrigerator).


Complete the sentence with correct reflexive pronoun.

I like _____.


The fisher caught the _______.


Fill in the blanks with appropriate determiners. (Articles have been included)

Once the emperor gave a bag of seeds to his council of ministers and said that he would give them six months’ time to grow the seeds. Whoever does a good job will be made the ______ emperor of that empire. ______ the ministers took their task seriously. After six months ______ ministers had small plants in their pots. A ______ had very large plants. ______ had medium sized plants. The emperor entered the hall. He was ______ amused to see ______ plants. He called the ______ minister and asked him what he did with the seed. ______ minister explained the process he adopted to make ______ plant grow. The emperor called ______ the other ministers to explain what they did. Only ______ minister had come with an empty pot. They laughed loudly at the foolishness of this minister. But the Emperor applauded him and made him the ______ Emperor. Do you know why? He had given them boiled seeds which will not grow. Only ______ minister was honest.


Now, write the clipped and unclipped forms of the given words and complete the table.

UNCLIPPED CLIPPED
chimpanzee  
  photo
  mike
cafeteria  
  gas
helicopter  
telephone  
  varsity
  memo
influenza  
  hippo
bridegroom  
  fan
demonstration  
  pram
refrigerator  

Add appropriate question tag to the following sentence.

Automation and shared mobility will play a key role in this transformation.


Refer to the dictionary and find out the meaning of the following foreign word/phrase. Use them in sentence of your own:

teta-te


Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.

Whose car did someone park in front of your gate?


Find out the synonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.

A silver tumbler of buttermilk seasoned with asafetida.


Some British English words are given in column ‘A’. Write their corresponding American English word is Column ‘B.

British American
pavement side walk
pull over  
waistcoat  
chips  
flat  
ground floor  
underground  
queue  
wind screen  
indicator  
timetable  
post  
holiday  
autumn  
lift  
nappy  
full stop  
loo  
sweets  
bin  

Rewrite the following using a complete word instead of a contracted form.

She hadn’t seen as many telebooks.


This narrative is written in the first person - using ‘I’. Rewrite the following sentence using ‘Helen Keller/Young Helen’ appropriately in place of ‘I’ and making other necessary changes in the sentence.

Then my eyes filled with tears; for I realised what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow.


The signboard in the park read 'Keep ______ the lawn'.


Write the compound word from the pictures.

+
______

In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.

We immediately set forth fixing the roof.


Write compound word using the pictures.

+
____________

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