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♦ Synonym Unit – 1 His First Flight

Choose the most appropriate synonyms of the underlined words.

1. The young seagull was (i) alone on his (ii) ledge. He had been (iii) afraid to
fly with them. Somehow, when he had taken a little run forward to the brink of
the ledge and attempted to flap his wings, he became afraid. The great (iv)
expanse of sea stretched down (v) beneath, and it was such a long way
down – miles down.

(i) (a) accompanied (b) unaccompanied (c) prevalent (d) together

Answer:
(b) unaccompanied

(ii) (a) trench (b) cavity (c) narrow shelf (d) dent
Answer:
(c) narrow shelf

(iii) (a) bold (b) valiant (c) confident (d) frightened

Answer:
(d) frightened

(iv) (a) limitation (b) area (c) height (d) extreme

Answer:
(b) area

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(v) (a) lofty (b) above (c) below (d) higher

Answer:
(c) below

2. The sun was now (i) ascending the sky, (ii) blazing warmly on his ledge
that faced the south. He felt the heat because he had not eaten since the (iii)
previous nightfall. Then, he had found a (iv) dried piece of mackerel’s tail at
the far end of his ledge. There was not a single (v) scrap of food left.

(i) (a) slumping (b) going down (c) rising (d) absconding
Answer:
(c) rising

(ii) (a) apathetic (b) burning brightly (c) freezing (d) impassive
Answer:
(b) burning brightly

(iii) (a) current (b) on time (c) preceding (d) well timed
Answer: (c) preceding

(iv) (a) parched (b) dampened (c) engulfed (d) moistened

Answer:
(a) parched

(v) (a) tiny bit (b) lot (c) load (d) harmony
Answer: (a) tiny bit

3. She (was standing on a little high (i) hump on the (ii) plateau, her white
breast thrust forward. The sight of the food (iii) maddened him. How he loved

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to tear food that way, scraping his beak now and again to (iv) whet it! He
uttered a low (v) cackle. His mother cackled too, and looked at him.

(i) (a) mound (b) hollow (c) dent (d) depression

Answer:
(a) mound

(ii) (a) valley (b) plains (c) precipice (d) mountain

Answer:
(b) plains

(iii) (a) pleased (b) pacified (c) enraged (d) calmed

Answer:
(c) enraged

(iv) (a) dampen (b)sharpen (c) dull (d) blunt

Answer:
(b) sharpen

(v) (a) sob (b) bark (c) moan (d) cluck

Answer:
(d) cluck

4. He could feel the tips of his wings cutting through the air. He was not
falling (i) headlong now. He was soaring (ii) gradually, downwards and
outwards. He was no longer (iii) afraid. He just felt a bit (iv) dizzy. Then, he
flapped his wings once and he (v) soared upwards.

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(i) (a) cautiously (b) attentively (c) carefully (d) recklessly

Answer:
(d) recklessly

(ii) (a) slowly (b) suddenly (c) abruptly (d) immediately

Answer:
(a) slowly

(iii) (a) calm (b) fearful (c) composed (d) valiant

Answer:
(b) fearful

(iv) (a) stable (b) clever (c) giddy (d) sensible

Answer:
(c) giddy

(v) (a) descended (b) slumped (c) lowered (d) flew

Answer:
(d) flew

♦ Synonym Unit – 2 The Night the Ghost Got in

The (i) slamming of the doors had (ii) aroused mother: she (iii) peered out of
her room. ‘What on earth are you boys doing?’ she (iv) demanded. Herman
ventured out of his room. ‘Nothing,’ he said, (v) gruffly, but he was, in colour,
a light green. ‘What was all that running around downstairs?’ said mother.

(i) (a) opening (b) tapping (c) shutting noisily (d) flattering
Answer:
(c) shutting noisily

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(ii) (a) awakened (b) put out (c) dissuaded (d) stopped
Answer:
(a) awakened

(iii) (a) disappeared (b) appeared (c) pursued (d) pulled

Answer:
(b) appeared

(iv) (a) directed (b) deputed (c) asked (d) replied

Answer:
(c) asked

(v) (a) happily (b) kindly (c) softly (d) harshly

Answer:
(d) harshly

2. Since the phone was downstairs, mother made one of her (i) quick,
incomparable decisions. She (ii) flung up a window of her bedroom which
faced the bedroom windows of the house of a neighbour, picked up a shoe,
and (iii) whammed it through a pane of glass across the (iv) narrow space
that (v) separated the two houses.

(i) (a) idle (b) fast (c) clumsy (d) sluggish

Answer:
(b) fast

(ii) (a) threw (b) caught (c) faced (d) followed

Answer:
(a) threw

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(iii) (a) lost (b) pulled (c) struck forcefully (d) tapped
Answer:
(c) struck forcefully

(iv) (a) wide (b) large (c) tolerant (d) small width
Answer:
(d) small width

(v) (a) secured (b) divided (c) shared (d) sheltered

Answer:
(b) divided

3. Flashlights shot (i) streaks of (ii) gleam up and down the walls, across the
yard, down the walk between our house and Bodwell’s. ‘Open up!’ cried a (iii)
hoarse voice. ‘We’re men from Headquarters!’ I wanted to go down and (iv)
let them in, since there they were, but mother wouldn’t (v) hear of it.

(i) (a) scales (b) shades (c) rays (d) signals

Answer:
(c) rays

(ii) (a) depression (b) brightness (c) dullness (d) obscurity

Answer:
(b) brightness

(iii) (a) moderate (b) gentle (c) rough (d) soft

Answer:
(c) rough

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(iv) (a) hold (b) forbid (c) hinder (d) allow

Answer:
(d) allow

(v) (a) shun (b) listen (c) ignore (d) overstep

Answer:
(b) listen

4. Downstairs, we could hear the (i) tromping of the other police. Police were
all over the place; doors were (ii) yanked open, drawers were yanked open,
windows were shot up and pulled down, furniture fell with (iii) dull tKumps. A
half-dozen policemen (iv) emerged out of the darkness of the front hallway
upstairs. They began to (v) ransack the floor.

(i) (a) walking heavily (b) limping (c) staggering (d) stumbling
Answer:
(a) walking heavily

(ii) (a) whisked (b) pulled (c) left (d) hastened

Answer:
(b) pulled

(iii) (a) exciting (b) lively (c) not sharp (d) energetic
Answer:
(c) not sharp

(iv) (a) appeared (b) dissipated (c) receded (d) faded

Answer:
(a) appeared

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(v) (a) clean (b) sort out (c) search thoroughly (d) mend
Answer:
(c) search thoroughly

♦ Synonym Unit – 3 Empowered Women Navigating The World

1. Women (i) occupy almost all the maj or positions in society, (ii) Currently,
women’s (iii) accomplishments are (iv) tremendous in many fields. One such
achievement is the All-women Indian Navy crew who (v) circumnavigated the
world for 254 days all alone, in a sailboat called INSV Tarini.

(i) (a) hold (b) provide (c) change (d) commute

Answer:
(a) hold

(ii) (a) once (b) historically (c) at present (d) beforehand

Answer:
(c) at present

(iii) (a) failures (b) attempts (c) defeats (d) achievements

Answer:
(d) achievements

(v) (a) enormous (b) awful (c) feeble (d) marginal

Answer:
(a) enormous

(v) (a) elude around (b) travel around (c) chase around (d) immobilise
Answer:
(b) travel around

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2. INSV (i) stands for Indian Naval Ship Vessel. Tara-Tarini is the (ii)
patron-deity for sailors and is (iii) worshipped for (iv) safety and success at
sea. INSV Tarini is the second sailboat of the Indian Navy. It is a 55 foot
sailing vessel built (v) indigenously in India by M/s Aquarius Shipyard Pvt.
Ltd, located in Goa.

(i) (a) yields (b) rests (c) spins (d) denotes

Answer:
(d) denotes

(ii) (a) captain (b) protector (c) witch (d) assailant

Answer:
(b) protector

(iii) (a) despised (b) disdained (c) adored (d) dishonoured

Answer:
(c) adored

(iv) (a) hazard (b) risk (c) threat (d) protection

Answer:
(d) protection

(v) (a) domestically (b) globally (c) foreignly (d) spuriously

Answer:
(a) domestically

3. The special (i) feature of this sailboat is that it (ii) encouraged use of
environment friendly non-ccmventional (iii) renewable energy resources such
as the wind; collected and updated meteorological, ocean and wave data on
regular basis for (iv) accurate weather forecast by India Meteorological

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Department and also collected data for (v) monitoring marine pollution on
high seas.

(i) (a) quite (b) aspect (c) shabby (d) blunder

Answer:
(b) aspect

(ii) (a) scared (b) deterred (c) supported (d) dejected

Answer:
(c) supported

(iii) (a) frail (b) appalling (c) perishable (d) inexhaustible

Answer:
(d) inexhaustible

(iv) (a) vague (b) exact (c) deceptive (d) flawed

Answer:
(b) exact

(v) (a) controlling (b) promoting (c) ignoring (d) neglecting

Answer:
(a) controlling

4. I wanted to make sure that I complete this journey with (i) ultimate honesty.
I didn’t set out for a destination; it was the journey that (ii) mattered to me the
most. So my (iii) contention was to make sure that we go by the rules of
circumnavigation which say that you don’t have to use any (iv) auxiliary
means of (v) repulsion.

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(i) (a) least (b) best (c) worst (d) inferior

Answer:
(b) best

(ii) (a) excluded (b) abstracted (c) exchanged (d) concerned

Answer:
(d) concerned

(iii) (a) affection (b) serenity (c) strenuous effort (d) patience
Answer:
(c) strenuous effort

(iv) (a) important (b) additional (c) chief (d) superior

Answer:
(b) additional

(v) (a) hatred (b) attraction (c) delight (d) sympathy

Answer:
(a) hatred

♦ Synonym Unit – 4 The Attic

We were driving along (i) National (ii) Highway 40. We had reached a point
where the road (iii) bifurcated. If we drove ten kilometres along the road that
(iv) branched off to the right, we would reach Bramhapur. I asked Aditya
whether he was interested in (v) revisiting the place of his birth.

(i) (a) rural (b) state (c) local (d) international

Answer:
(b) state

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(ii) (a) bypass (b) back road (c) alleyway (d) main road
Answer:
(d) main road

(iii) (a) divided into two (b) linked (c) connected (d) joined
Answer:
(a) divided into two

(iv) (a) converged (b) out spread (c) united (d) decorated
Answer:
(b) out spread

(v) (a) going over (b) leaving (c) abandoning (d) avoiding
Answer:
(a) going over

2. Trying to (i) revive old childhood (ii) memories may prove (iii)
disappointing, but he said he wished to visit the tea shop of Nagen uncle, if it
still (iv) existed. We drove to Bramhapur of which Aditya’s (v) ancestors were
once the Zamindars.

(i) (a) win (b) bring back (c) weaken (d) destroy
Answer:
(b) bring back

(ii) (a) forgetfulness (b) ignorance (c) amnesia (d) remembrances

Answer:
(d) remembrances

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(iii) (a) encouraging (b) pleasing (c) disheartening (d) agreeable

Answer:
(c) disheartening

(iv) (a) ceased (b) left (c) survived (d) discontinued

Answer:
(c) survived

(v) (a) descendant (b) forerunner (c) children (d) people

Answer:
(b) forerunner

3. The (i) attic has always been a favourite with children. A portion of the wall
of the attic (ii) crumbled down and through the window that had been (iii)
created, we could see the sky, the fields, the (iv) spire of the old temple. The
floor was (v) strewn with twigs and straw.

(i) (a) bottom (b) underground (c) loft (d) platform

Answer:
(c) loft

(ii) (a) built (b) improved (c) developed (d) crushed

Answer:
(d) crushed

(iii) (a) developed (b) demolished (c) denied (d) refused

Answer:
(a) developed

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(iv) (a) base (b) low (c) top (d) ground

Answer:
(c) top

(v) (a) exposed (b) spattered (c) passed over (d) emptied
Answer:
(b) spattered

4. The (i) spoilt child of (ii) affluent parents. He was a (iii) fairly good student,
but could never beat me. He was (iv) extremely (v) jealous of me. And used
to tell lies.

(i) (a) enhanced (b) praised (c) ruined (d) protected

Answer:
(c) ruined

(ii) (a) wealthy (b) empty (c) conservative (d) poor

Answer:
(a) wealthy

(iii) (a) ugly (b) some extent (c) good (d) extraordinary
Answer:
(b) some extent

(iv) (a) highly (b) hardly (c) credibly (d) partly

Answer:
(a) highly

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(v) (a) content (b) unworried (c) envious (d) satisfied

Answer:
(c) envious

♦ Synonym Unit – 5 Tech Bloomers

Anything which is below a (i) pre-defined limit or below certain (ii) threshold,
can be self-ordered by the (iii) appliance. Your refrigerator can directly link to
the ecommerce site and order for milk if it is about to be (iv) exhausted.
Consumable products such as ink (v) cartridges may be capable of
self-ordering replacements.

(i) (a) told already (b) portico (c) stated clearly (d) judged in advance
Answer:
(b) defined in advance

(ii) (a) verandah (b) package (c) approach (d) degree

Answer:
(c) approach

(iii) (a) vehicle (b) very active (c) computer (d) machine
Answer:
(d) machine

(iv) (a) very tired (b) containers (c) very vigorous (d) very strong
Answer:
(a) very tired

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(v) (a) packets (b) defined in advance (c) bottles (d) glasses
Answer:
(b) containers

2. Technology can help us make friends, (i) communicate and control our (ii)
environment like turning the lights on and out. It can help us study, get (iii)
qualifications and find opportunities for work. It can make us (iv) confident
and (v) independent.

(i) (a) speak (b) conceal (c) ignore (d) suppress

Answer:
(a) Speak

(ii) (a) country (b) surrounding (c) forefront (d) locality

Answer:
(b) surrounding

(iii) (a) commencement (b) unfulfilment (c) disagreement (d) accomplishment

Answer:
(d) accomplishments

(iv) (a) doubtful (b) bashful (c) hopeful (d) fearful

Answer:
(c) hopeful

(v) (a) self-respect (b) self-reliant (c) self-devoted (d) self-defence

Answer:
(b) self-reliant

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3. David will now use his EC02 to speak in complete sentences with correct
(i) syntax It has increased the number of words he uses meaningfully and (ii)
comment (iii) socially using the language of his (iv) peers, thereby becoming
a confident and (v) competent communicator.

(i) (a) diagram (b) structure (c) disorder (d) system

Answer:
(b) structure

(ii) (a) neglect (b) avoid (c) ignore (d) remark

Answer:
(d) remark

(iii) (a) publicly (b) privately (c) unpleasantly (d) unfriendly

Answer:
(a) publicly

(iv) (a) opponents (b) superior (c) counterparts (d) inferior

Answer:
(c) counterparts

(v) (a) thoughtful (b) skilful (c) rightful (d) careful

Answer:
(b) skilful

♦ Synonym Unit – 6 The Last Lesson

1. Then, as I hurried by as fast as I could go, the (i) blacksmith Wachter, who
was there,with his (ii) apprentice reading the (iii) bulletin. Usually, when

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school began, there was a great (iv) bustle the opening and closing of desks,
lessons repeated in (v) unison.

(i) (a) person who deals with iron (b) deals with gold (c) deals with silver (d)
deals with steel
Answer:
(a) person who deals with iron

(ii) (a) employer (b) trainer (c) trainee (d) coach

Answer:
(c) trainee

(iii) (a) train (b) board (c) official statement (d) message
Answer:
(c) official statement

(iv) (a) slow (b) busy movement (c)lazy (d)free

Answer:
(b) busy movement

(v) (a) together (b) combined (c) individual (d) separate

Answer:
(a) together

2. The teacher s great (i) ruler was (ii) rapping on the on the table. But now it
was all so (iii) still. I had (iv) counted (v) commotion to get to my desk.

(i) (a) king (b) scale (c) chip (d) role

Answer:
(b) scale

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(ii) (a) tapping (b) biting (c) hanging (d) pulling

Answer:
(a) tapping

(iii) (a) even though (b) calm (c) loud (d) noisy
Answer:
(b) calm

(iv) (a) take advantage (c) noticed (b) followed (d) waited
Answer:
(a) taken advantage

(v) (a) clear (b) loud (c) near (d) confusion

Answer:
(d) confusion

3. It was the most beautiful language in the world – the clearest, the most (i)
logical, that we must guard it among us and never forget it, because when a
people are (ii) enslaved as long as they (iii) hold fast to their language. Then
he read us our lesson. I was (iv) amazed to see how well I understood it. I
had never listened so (v) carefully.

(i) (a) reasoning (b)loud (c) moving (d) understanding

Answer:
(a) reasoning

(ii) (a) left (b) freed (c) captured (d)saved

Answer:
(c) captured

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(iii) (a) catch (b) stick to (c)take (d) carry

Answer:
(b) stick to

(iv) (a) bored (b) explained (c) surprised (d) expected

Answer:
(c) surprised

(v) (a) brutally (b) recklessly (c) attentively (d) grimly

Answer:
(c) attentively

4. M. Hamel sitting (i) motionless in his chair and (ii) gazing first at one thing,
then at another, as if he wanted to (iii) fix in his mind just how everything
looked in that little school-room (iv) fancy For forty years he had been there
in the same place. Only the desks and benches had been (v) worn smooth.

(i) (a) careless (b) still (c) hopeless (d) fearless

Answer:
(b) still

(ii) (a) waiting (b) guarding (c) staring (d) grazing

Answer:
(c)staring

(iii) (a) ignore (b) set (c) disturb (d) alter

Answer:
(b) set

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(iv) (a) dream (b) reality (c) fact (d) dislike

Answer:
(a) dream

(v) (a) tattered (b) pristine (c) new (d) costly

Answer:
(a) tattered

♦ Synonym Unit – 7 The Dying Detective

1. In the dim light of a (i) foggy November day, the sick-room was a (ii)
gloomy spot, but it was the (iii) gaunt face staring form the bed that brought
(iv) chill to my heart. His eyes had the brightness of fever, his cheeks were
(v) flushed.

(i) (a) bright (b) light (c) clear (d) musty

Answer:
(d) musty

(ii) (a) happy (b) peace (c) noisy (d) sad

Answer:
(d) sad

(iii) (a) exhausted and thin (b) fresh (c) flourishing (d) best
Answer:
(a) exhausted and thin

(iv) (a) cold (b) fear (c) boldness (d) happiness

Answer:
(b) fear

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(v) (a) pale (b) clear (c) reddened (d) bright

Answer:
(c) reddened

2. “It is the disease from Sumatra. It is (i) deadly and (ii) contagious, Watson
– that’s it, by touch.” “Good heavens, Holmes! Do you think this can stop
me?” I said (iii) advancing towards him. My feelings as a doctor were (iv)
aroused. I said, “you are not yourself whether you like it or not. I will examine
your (v) symptoms.

(i) (a) dead (b) fatal (c) live (d) great

Answer:
(b) fatal

(ii) (a) harmless (b) painful (c) curable (d) spreads

Answer:
(d) spreads

(iii) (a) background (b) against (c) move forward (d) still
Answer:
(c) move forward

(iv) (a) lazy (b) sleep (c) awakened (d) lethargy

Answer:
(c) awakened

(v) (a) signs (b) emblem (c) gesture (d) voice

Answer:
(a) signs

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3. (i) Finally I came to the (ii) mantel piece, where among other things I saw a
small black and white ivory box with sliding lid. As I held it in my hand to (iii)
examine it, I heard a dreadful cry. “Put it down! Down at once, Watson,” he
said, “I hate to have my things touched. Sit down man, and let me have my
rest!” Then I sat in silent (iv) dejection until the (v) stipulated time had
passed.

(i) (a) beginning (b) firstly . (c) early (d) at last

Answer:
(d) at last

(ii) (a) wooden structure (b) cloak (c) cloth (d) clock
Answer:
(a) wooden structure

(iii) (a) observe deeply (b) exams (c) test (d) finalise
Answer:
(a) observe deeply

(iv) (a) success (b) happy (c) confident (d) sad

Answer:
(d) sad

(v) (a) exceed (b) given (c) border (d) boundless

Answer:
(b) given

4. I was (i) hesitant to leave him now. He was (ii) delirious. He said, “He is the
man i who has the knowledge of this disease. I hope you will be able to (iii)
persuade him to come. You must tell him that I’m dying (iv) plead with him,
Watson. “I’ll bring him in a (v) cab,” I said.

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(i) (a) ready (b) allow (c) doubtful (d) hasty

Answer:
(c) doubtful

(ii) (a) restlessness (b) calm (c) serene (d) short

Answer:
(a) restlessness

(iii) (a) lenient (b) soft (c) deliberate (d) force

Answer:
(d) force

(iv) (a) command (b) request (c) beg (d) order

Answer:
(c) beg

(v) (a) truck (b) van (c) taxi (d)lorry

Answer:
(c) taxi

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