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प्रश्न
From the lesson, pick out one word for the following.
echoed loudly
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उत्तर
Reverberated
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Form groups and explain the following words with examples. You can take help of your teacher.
Empathy
Some words in the poem are related to different parts of a ship or a mariner’s life. Given below is the meaning of those terms. Identify the word.
Helps in steering the ship
Compose 4 to 6 lines on ‘sea’.
‘Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night’.
In the above line, the weather is humid, not the night. The epithet or adjective is transferred from the weather to the night. This figure of speech is Transferred Epithet. Find out another such expression from the poem.
Find from the text the collocation for the following.
.......... slowly
From the story, find the collocation of the following.
widely ..........
Vocabulary Extension - Choose several words from the text. Use a dictionary or the internet to build up more associations/collocations of each word.
Let’s use the Thesaurus.
Along with your partner, go to the library or search the internet for a standard Thesaurus to complete the following table. One is done for you.
| Sr. No. | Word | Type | Synonym | Antonym |
| 1. | observe | verb | notice, discern, detect, mark | ignore, overlook |
| 2. | abandoned | |||
| 3. | grateful | |||
| 4. | initiative | |||
| 5. | peril | |||
| 6. | separation |
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
