Vocabulary question
Section II
Textual Passages
A.3. and B.3. Activity Base on Vocabulary Mark 2
the meaning of words and phrases in the glossary from the text book.
1.1 A Teenager’s Prayer
1. Success - victory
2. Darkened – it refers to evil
3. Distress – great worry and strain
4. Temptation – a strong wish to do something bad or wrong
1.2 An Encounter of a Special Kind
1. Engrossed – occupied
2. Unfolded – revealed
3. new dimension – new factor
4. hearty - sufficient
and wholesome
5. intermittent – frequent
6. shrill – very high and loud sound voice
7. commotion – noise and confusion
8. hapless – unfortunate
9. cacophony – loud, harsh noises
10. mercilessly – cruelly
11. clan – a very large family
12. got the better of – overpowered, defeated
13. dominant – powerful, superior
14. stout -heavy
15. marauding – searching for something to steal or attack
16. assault – attack
17. listless – without any energy
18. slide down – move downwards
19. manifold – more and more
20. prospect – future time
21. inert – powerless, motionless
22. coop – cage for poultry
23. oozing – releasing
24. muffled – quietened/suppressed sound
25. stir – move
26. trauma – great distress
27. descended – moved downwards
28. cuddled – held
29. solace – comfort
30. ponder – think over deeply
31. stricken – to be hit hard, suffer
32. universal – existing everywhere or involving everywhere
33. vicious - evil,
wicked
34. hums into action - becomes active
35. compassion – sympathy and kindness
1.3 Basketful of Moonlight
1.
Plies – travels regularly over a route
1.4 Be SMART
1. Thrive - prosper
2. Illuminate - enlighten
3. At the helm of – in charge of
4. Steer - channelize
5. Rubric - a guideline or a heading
6. Benchmark - judged, standard by which something can be
measured
7. Defensive - justificative
8. Adhere - bind
9. Consistent - steady
10. Down to earth – real,
practical
11. Execute - to carry out
12. Strategy - plan of action
1.5 His first Flight
1. Ledge - a narrow horizontal
shelf projecting from a wall or a cliff
2. Brink - the edge of a steep place
3. Muster - up courage
4. Ascending the sky
5. Shrilly - in a loud, harsh voice
6. Upbraiding - scolding
7. Skim move lightly just above a surface
8. Herring - a soft finned sea fish
9. Devour - eat up hungrily
10. Cackle - utter a shill cry
11. Cliff - a high steep face of a rock
12. Cowardice - lack of courage to face danger
13. Preening - making
an effort to clean feathers with the beak
14. Hump - a road raised mass on land
15. Scrapped - rubbed
16. Whet sharpen
17. Derisively - in a manner showing someone that she/he is
stupid
18. Plaintively - expressing sorrow
19. Monstrous - shocking
20. Dizzy - having an uncomfortable feeling of spinning around and losing one’s balance
21. Curveting - leaping like a horse
22. Banking flying with one wing higher than the other
23. Shrieking - making a loud cry
24. Ridge - a chain of hills
25. Amusedly - pleasurably
26. Beckon - to give a signal to move near or to follow
27. Exhaust - wear out
28. Temptation, Commotion trauma, mercilessly cacophony,
assault Plies
29. Rubric - a guideline or a heading
30. Thrive - prosper
31. Adhere - bind
32. Execute - to carry out
33. Strategy - plan of action
2.1 You Start dying slowly
1. Dying slowly – losing hope of a happy future
2. Self-esteem – a feeling of being happy with your own
character and abilities, self-respect
3. Turbulent – unsteady
4. Glisten - shine
5. Sensible – wise, full of common sense
2.2 The boy who broke the bank
1. Grumbled - showed ones critical
attitude
2. Emphasize - draw
attention to
3. Plodded - walked heavily
4. Hoisted - raised to a higher position
5. Customary - usual, habitual
6. Stationary - stable not moving
7. Bankrupt - without enough money to pay what you owe
financially ruined
8. Nicked - cut slightly
9. Beeline - the direct route
10. crooked not straight
11. squatting - occupying
12. barrow - a cart
13. drought - shortage of rainfall
14. imminent - standing above others
in quality or position
15. speculating -
chewing over
16. frenzy - fury
17. boast - show off
18. farsightedness - longsighted
19. indulged - in took part in
something
20. dilemma - a
difficult situation, a situation which make problems
21. persuade - make someone to believe
23. placate - stop
someone from feeling angry
24. disgust - hatred
25. hooligans -
bully
26. smote - make a heavy blow with a tool
2.3 The Twins
1. Form
and feature - structure and appearance
2. Kith
and kin - relatives
3.
Pitch - limit, height
5.
Whim - a sudden change of mind
6.
Christened - name given to a baby at the naming
ceremony
7.
Fatal - leading to disaster or death
8.
Dogged - continued to follow
9.
Flogged - beaten up
10.
Turned - the tide changed the situation
2.4 An epitome of courage
1. Mourn - feel sorry for
2. Exemplary - worth of imitation and
admirable
3. Hailed - acclaimed
4. Epitome - a very fine example of
something
5. Cosmology - study
of origin and development of the universe
6. Quirk of fate - unexpected change of destiny
7. Clumsy - awkward, incompetent
8. Perplexed - full of difficulty
confused
9. Fit of frensy - great annoyance or a rage
10. A bolt from the blue - a sudden unexpected shock or surprise
11. Prognosis - forecast of a future
health condition
12. Undaunted - not
afraid of misfortunes
13. Epoch making - of great importance at a particular
restricted time
14. Bestowed on - granted as an honour
15. Layman - an
ordinary person without any special skills or knowledge
16. Quintessence - a perfect example
17. Optimism - state
of having positive belief
2.5 Book review swami and friends by R.K. Narayan
1. Nightmare - a very frightening
experience
2. Harass - somebody trouble
4. To play hovoc - to prevent normal function and cause
damage
5. Exquisite - in a pleasing manner
6. Perspective - point of view
7. Technical jargon - words used by particular
professionals, that others fail to understand
8. Encompasses - circles around
9. Sensitive - quick to understand feeling of others
10. Essence - spirit
2.6 Word Heritage
1. Heritage
- that which is valued because of historical/natural/cultural importance
2.
Characteristics – distinguishing features or
qualities
3. Artefacts
- any objects made by a human being
4.
Scores of - plenty of many of
5.
Dismantling - disassembling pulling down
6.
Initiated - began started
7.
Inventory - a detailed list
8.
Recommendations - Suggestions proposals
9.
Criteria - fixed basis to judge
10.
To inscribe - fixed basis to judge
11.
Territory - region
12.
Urbanization - include more areas in cities,
expand city area.
13.
Allocate – assign
3.1 If
1. Keep ones head - not to get angary
2. Make allowance for - consider what others also have to
say about something
3. Be lied about – false things spoken about oneself by
others
4. Give way to hating - allow hatred to take control of
oneself
5. Don’t look good - not to be perfect
6. Talk too wise - show off one`s knowledge
8. Imposter - one who deceives others by pretending to be
someone else
9. Knaves - slaves
10. Truth twisted by someone - change the truth a little to
gain some advantage
11. Keep ones virtue - keep ones goodness or morals under
any condition
12. Lose the common touch - refuse to interact with common
people
13. Count with you - be equally important to you
14. Unforgiving minute - time that does not wait for anyone
15. Sixty seconds worth of distance run - make good use of
every second without wasting.
16. To be a man - to be a good perfect human being
3.2 A Lesson in life from a beggar
2. Cynicism
- a distrustful attitude
3. Pessimistic
- expecting the worst, having a negative attitude
4.
Subside - to settle down or stop
6.
Paradise - heaven, an ideal or perfect place
7.
Zest - great enjoyment or enthusiasm
8.
Sponsor - provide funds for a good purpose
9. Asset
- a useful and valuable thing
10.
Realization dawned - began to realize
3.3 Stopping by woods on a snowy evening
2.
Harness bells - bells tied in the neck of a
horse to control it
3.
Downy flake - soft feather like snow falkes
falling
3.4 Let’s March
1. Aspiration - an ardent
wish or desire
3. The sound of silence - unheard plea of the deprived
4. Face of invisibility - unnoticed suffering of the poor
and innocent
5. Exhaust - wear out
6. Shackles - chains that bind
7. Confronting - facing and attacking
8. Compassion - pity and concern for
those suffering
9. Inculcate - develop
by instructing
10. intergenerational
- Involving several generations
11. Passivity - no action taken
12. Neutrality - not supporting or helping
13. Innovative - having new advanced ideas or methods
14. Fragmented - spite up or
disunified
15. Agenda - a plan of things to be done to be solve a
problem
16. Democratise - make democratic
17. Exploitation - take undue
advantage of
3.5 The alchemy of nature
1. Instinctively – by natural instinct
2. Awe - a feeling of respect with wonder
3. Wilting - to dry and droop
4. Withers – dries up
5. Splendour - grand appearance
6. Colossal - extremely large
8. Lugging - carry
or drag with great efforts
9. Frail feelers - weak legs
10. Unhindered - not hindered or obstructed
11. Alchemy - mysterious power or magic that can change
things
4.1 The world is Mine
1. Envied – was jealous of
2. Hobble – walk with a limp, unsteadily
3. Aisle – passage between two rows of seats
4. Whine – complain in a crying tone.
4.2 Bholi
1. Simpleton - one who can be easily deceived to believe
anything
2. Numberdar - an official who collects revenue
3. Disfigured - spoiled
4. Pockmarks - permanent marks left on the skin
5. Stammer - speech defect
6. Matter - entangled
7. Squatted - sat on their heels
8. In a helpless flood - uncontrolled flow of tears
9. Scurried - ran or moved away in a hurry
10. Ginning - separating raw cotton from its seeds
11. Envious - jealous
12. Poised - in a fixed position
13. Humiliate - put to shame
14. Downcast - looking downwards
15. Prospective - future
16. contempt - hatred
17. startled - shocked
18. mean - wicked
19. contemptible - hateful
20. contemplating – thinking about deeply
4.3 O Captain! My Captain!
1.
Weather’d every rack – overcome every
difficulty
2.
Exulting – rejoicing and celebrating
3.
Keel - the strong base of a boat or ship which
supports its entire framework
4.
Grim - serious
5.
Trills - plays loudly
6.
Wreaths - garlands
7.
Mass - crowds of people
8.
Some dream - here, something hard to believe
9.
Mournful - very sorrowful
10.
Tread – footsteps
4.4 Unbeatable super Mom Mary Kom
1. Jhum - farming shifting cultivation
2. Humble surroundings - simple
and poor conditions
3. AIBA - the amateur international
boxing association
4. Debut - first public appearance or performance
5. Reinforce - strengthened
6. A legend - one who makes history
7. Elation - great joy
8. Sink - in realize and accept
9. Exhilarated - very thrilled
10. Sparring - motions of boxing during training. Without
landing actual blows
11. Tactical - planned actions to gain victory
12. Dodgy - unjust/partial
13. Corporates - companies or industries
14. Sponsor - organization that pays or aids sportsmen or a
sport event
15. Conditioning - becoming fit
16. Saturated - fats unhealthy fats
17. OGQ - Olympic gold quest
18. Stereotype - fixed idea held as a common standard
4.5 Joan of Arc
1. Grimly - seriously
2. Squire - a person of high rank
3. Blockhead - a stupid person
4. Assuming - taking for granted
5. Dauphin - the oldest son of the king France the one who
would become the king after his father
6. Monsieur - French word for mister mr
7. Retreats - hastily moves away in a hurry
8. Cowed - frightened
9. Wavering - hesitating
10. Have put fire into me - inspired or motivated
11. Obstinately - in a stubborn and firm manner
12. Gravely - seriously
13. Raising a siege surround from all sides and attack
14. Plundering - looting
15. To save their skins - to save their lives
16. To put fire into someone - to inspire someone to fight
bravely
17. Let come what may - let anything happen
18. Wash ones hands off it – not take any responsibility for
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