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प्रश्न
Pick out the words and phrases in the story that indicate that the author was not financially well off. One is done for you.
| Words | not afford | |||
| Phrases | beyond my means |
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उत्तर
| Words | not afford | barely enough | modest | inadequate |
| Phrases | beyond my means | to last me the rest of the month | cut out coffee for the next two weeks | not a penny in my pocket |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
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| Phrases | Meanings |
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| the sounds helped him along his lonely way | |
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| when the evening of his life was drawing in, he left his old ways and suddenly took a new turn |
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| And so the clerk, like a worshipper of Lord Vishnu, repeated his customary thousand names |
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| The haughty temper of the official had quite left him in his sorrow and anxiety, and had laid bare his human heart |
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