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Grade-11 Unit-9 Democracy and Human Rights Vocabularies Find these words in a dictionary and writer their meanings as they are used in the text. liberty - the condition of not being constrained by goverment / authority to live your life as you desire conflict - state when contrasting opinions / attitudes among persons / organizations ideology - a set of principles on which a system is based oppression - abuse of power / authority that is harsh / dewarding privilege - anything which people may be pleased and grateful to have or persons dignity - the quality of being deserving of honor and gratitude surrender - the act of being forced to lose power of something reconciliation - state of an improved connection that has been damaged Grammar Complete the sentences with should or shouldn't. Use o...

Grade 11 Civil Peace Chinua Achebe Vocabularies hazy - foggy (filled with fog/mist) inestimable - beyond calculation / measure commandeer - take arbitrarily / by force amenable - disposed / willing rummage - search haphazardly accumulate - get / gather together monumental - of outstanding significance edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls destitue - poor enough to need help from others blunt - not sharp rusty - covered with / consisting of an oxide coating miner - laborer scuffle - fight / struggle in a confused way at close ruffian - a cruel and a brutal fellow imperious - having / showing arrogant superiority parched - extremely thirsty sob - weak aftermath - the consequences or after-effects of a significant unpleasant event ...

Grade 12 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Gabriel García Márquez Vocabularies crab - n. fish for crab drenched - covered courtyard - n. an area wholly / partly surrounded by walls or buildings strench - n. a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant glimmered - n. a flash of light (especially reflected light) / shine brightly like a star or light powdered (light) - consisting of fire particles stew (of mud) - n. agitation resulting from active worry (don't get in a stew) groaning - n. an utterance expressing pain or disapproval (indicate pain / discomfort) impeded (by his enormous wings) - made difficult or slow / obstructed stupor - n. the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when somehing bad happens accidently ragpicker - n. an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps ...

Grade 11 Two Little Soldiers Guy de Maupassant Vocabularies efficient - being effect without wasting time/effoert or expenses. denouement - n. the ourcome of a comples sequence of events / the final resolution of the main complications of a literary or dramatic work. compatibility - n. a feeling of sympathetic understanding / fellow feeling sympathy barracks - n. a building or group of buildings used to house military personnels. courbevoie - n. curveway strides - n. a step in walking or running / the distance covered by a long step scarce - deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand ill - fitting capes ample - more than enough in size or scope or capacity ankle - n. the part or joint connecting the foot with the leg. colombes - n. dove Chatou - n. an impressive country house in France ...

Unit-1 Lesson-2 The Oval Portrait - Edgar Allan Poe Points to Remember "The Oval Portrait” opens with the unnamed narrator and his servant, Pedro, making “forcible entrance” into an abandoned chateau in the Apennine Mountains. For reasons never made clear, the narrator is severely injured, slightly delirious, and therefore incapable of spending the night in the open air. The two men hole up in a remote bed chamber whose decorations are “rich, yet tattered and antique.” It is an oddly-shaped room that is full of nooks due to the chateau’s “bizarre architecture.” The chamber boasts a number of tapestries, “armorial trophies,” and “an unusually great number of very spirited modern paintings in frames of rich golden arabesque.” The paintings arouse the narrator’s interest. Wishing to contemplate them, he commands Pedro to light a tall candelabrum that stan...

Grade XI Refund - Fritz Karinthy Vocabularies excelled - v. to be very good at doing something parody - n. (disapproving) something that is such a bad or unfair example of something that it seems ridiculous disquited - adj. anxious or worried incredulously - adv. not willing or not able to belive in something unprecedented - adj. that has never happened, been done or been known before eccentricities - n. behaviour that people think is strange or unusual or an unusual act or habit exaggerated - adj. made to seem larger, better, worse or more important than it reall is or needs to be unparalleled - adj. used to emphasize that something is bigger, better or worse than anything else like it chuckling - to laugh quietly pedagogical - n. the study of teaching methods / adj. (formal) concerning teaching methods before hand - adv. ear...

On Libraries - Oliver Sacks Vocabularies neurologist - n. a doctor who studies and treats diseases of the nerves. laureate - a person who has been given an official honour/prize for something important they've acheived ecstasy - n. a feeling or state of very great happiness titans - n. a person who is very large, strong, intelligent or important serendipitous - adj. the fact of something interesting / pleasant happening by chance voracious - adj. wanting a lot of new information and knowledge. oak - great / tall / something large and successful often begins in oak-panelled - something to cover or decorate a surface with the flat strips of wood, glass, etc. lounge - n. a room in a private house for sitting and relaxing in / living room / sitting room soft morocco - n. a fine soft leather made from the skin of a goat used especially for cov...

Grade XI Unit - 1 Lesson - 4 The Wish Roald Dahl Vocabularies scab - n. a piece of hard skin which covers a wound/cut. gingerly - adv. in a careful way, because you are afraid of being hurt, or making noise, etc. vicious (looking) - adj. violent and cruel / aggressive / dangerous / very bad / severe wobble- v. to move from side to side in an unsteady way / to go in a particular direction while moving from side to side adders - n. a type of poisonous snake dazzling - syn. brilliant / the quality of that bring light has that stops you from seeing clearly fringe - n. the front part of the hair which covers the forehead banisters - n. the structure formed by the handrail at the side of a staircase. gazing - v. looking closely triumphantly - adv. successfully fits clenched - v. to curl your fingers up tightly, usually bec...

Grade 11 God Sees The Truth but Waits Leo Tolstoy Vocabularies riotous - adj. noisy or violent especially in a public place. spree - n. unrestrained activity of drinking alcohol adjoining room - n. a hotel room that shares a wall with another room. inn - n. a small hotel usually in a country. dawn - n. early morning samovar - n. a large container for heating water, used especailly in Russia for preparing tea. troika - n. a Russian vehicle drawn by three horses abreast. alighted - v. come down from a horse or vehicle unstrapped - release (someone or something) by undoing straps. flung - v. pp of fling fling - v. to throw somebody or something somewhere with force, especially because you are angry perish - v. suffer death, typically in a violent, sudden or untimely way petition - v. make a formal...

Part-2 Literary Studies The Selfish Giant Vocabularies arrogance - n. the behaviour of a person when they feel they are more imp. than other people, so that they are rude to them or do not consider them. vice - evil/immoral behviour; an evil/immoral qualiy in somebody's character. infuriating - adj. making you extremely angry. resentment - n. a feeling of anger/happiness about something that you think is unfair. conceit - n. (disapproving) too much pride in yourself and what you do. clowning -an entertainer who wears funny clothes and a large red nose and does silly thingsto make people laugh. salvation - n. (in christianity) the state of being saved from the power of evil / a way protecting somebody from danger, disaster, loss, etc. rectify - to put right something that is wrong. ...

Knowledge and Wisdom by Bertrand Russell, Grade - 12 Vocabularies Vocabularies proportion - n. a part or share of a whole absorb - v. to take, draw or suck something in distorting - v. pull or twist out of shape inculcate - v. inplan, infuse, instil bound up - v. to limit something fanatical - adj. a person who is too enthusiastic about something surpasses - v. (somebody/something/yourelf) formal to do or be than somebody/something correlative - n. (formal) a fact / anideathat is closely related to or depends on another fact / idea ceases - to stop happening / existing; tostop something from existing or happening populous - adj. (formal) where a large number of people live constitute - v. (not used in progressive terms...

  VOCABULARIES :  persecution - noun to treat somebody in a cruel and unfair way, especially because of their race,                                         religion / political belief. exotic -adj. strange discovered -verb found  poised -adj. in a state of balance gilt -adj. gold or something resembling gold, applied to a surface in a thin layer. palpably -adv. noticeably or clearly. modest -adj.short / little. boudoir -noun (old-fashioned) a woman's small private room or bedroom. gulps -verb swallow or breath with difficulty, typically in response to strong emotion. beseeching -verb somebody to do something (formal) to ask somebody for something in an anxious way                    because you want / need it very much.  bewilderment -noun a feeling of being completely ...