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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...

NEB MODEL QUESTION GRADE XI English (Sub. Code:0031)  candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.  The figures in the margin indicate full marks. Full Marks: 75  Time: 3 hours 1. Read the text and do the tasks. 15 Mt Everest grows by nearly a metre to new height: The world's highest mountain Mount Everest is 0.86m higher than had been previously officially calculated, Nepal and China have jointly announced. Until now the countries differed over whether to add the snow cap on top. The new height is 8,848.86m (29,032 ft). China's previous official measurement of 8,844.43m had put the mountain nearly four meters lower than Nepal's. Everest Officials at Nepal's foreign ministry and department of the survey said surveyors from both countries had coordinated to agree on the new height. The agreement to jointly announce the new measurement of the Earth's highest point was made during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to t...

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...

Unit-2 Lesson-2 A Red Red Rose Robert Burns Understanding the Text Short Question Answer To which two things does the speaker compare his love in the first stanza? - The speaker compares his love with a red rose and the melody in the beginning stanza the poem is a romantic poem where speaker has tried to describe his feelings for his beloved and tried to immoratalize his beautiful feelings for her. What does the speaker promise in the 2nd and 3rd stanzas? - In the second stanza, the speaker promises the never ending love since he says that he will love his beloved till the sea dries and till humanity exists. Similarly, in the 3rd stanza the poet has mentioned that his feelings for his beloved will be constant and stable even if the rocks will melt with the sun and there will be only sands on this planet. He indicates the end of all the living creatures on Earth and tries to show ...

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...