HSC Arts Class 12 - Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education Question Bank Solutions

Listen to the poem and fill in the blanks with appropriate words and phrases. If required listen to the poem again.

The World Is Too Much with Us

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in ______that is ours; We have given ______away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom ______, ______that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like ______, For this, for everything, we are ______; It ______us not. Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising ______Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.

Go through the lesson and spot the word which mean the same as the following.

1. profession (para 1)
2. sorrowful (para 2)
3. decency (para 5)
4. destiny (para 6)
5. hijacked (para 8)
6. motivation (para 9)
7. serious (para 10)
8. significant (para 13)

Go through the lesson and spot the words opposite to the meaning of the following

1. rare (para 1)
2. primitive (para 6) 
3. fiction (para 7)
4. fearful (para 8)
5. benign (para 11) 
6. diffidence (para 11) 
7. boredom (para 12)
8. criticize (para 13)

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

career – carrier – courier

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patients – patience – patents

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accident – incident – incidence

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scraping – scrapping – scrubbing

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

accept – except – expect

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lesson – lessen – lesion

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severe – sever – sewer

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raise – rise– rice

Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.

quiet – quite – quit

Fill in the blank with the word given in option.

Theatrical plays were a main source of ______before the advent of television.

Fill in the blank with the word given in option.

The ______warriors of the Spartan Army marched into battle against a powerful enemy.

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The ______of parents finally came to an end when their lost child was found with the help of police.

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Social media has brought about a ______ impact on the lives of millennials.

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The tyres of the car got ______when the vehicle rolled over the rusted nails scattered on the road.

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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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Many victims of the pipeline explosion in an oil refinery were left permanently______.

Fill in the blank with the word given in option.

The old lady found ______in the company of the children in the neighbourhood.