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Question
Read the following line from the poem and answer the question given below.
Nothing goes right with the folks you meet
Down on that gloomy Complaining Street.
- What is the opinion about the folks you meet down the street?
- What does the word ‘gloomy’ mean here?
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Solution
- Everything goes wrong with the folks you meet down the street.
- The word ‘gloomy’ means to appear depressing or frightening.
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