Survey Analysis Research & Compilation Centre

Musings- a period of reflection or thought Listless- with no energy or interest, lacking energy or enthusiasm Brooding- engaged in or showing deep thought about something that makes one sad, angry, or worried.thinking seriously Prompted- provoke, encouraged  Confide- to tell personal things privately to a person that one trusts Liable- likely (here) Enhance- intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of. Plunge- jump or dive quickly, to go into Adorable- lovable, cute Emigrated- leave one’s own country in order to settle permanently in another, went to settle Plunked- to put down Farewell- an act of parting or of making someone’s departure, goodbye Intended- planned, thought of Solemn- characterized by deep sincerity, serious, grave Dedication- commitment, devotion Quaking- shake or tremble, shaking because of fear Staked- bet, chanced, put on bet Pleading- to make an emotional appeal, requesting Glances- take a brief or hurried look, looks Outbursts- a s...

1   Ascending:-the sky,the act of rising up through the air,flying in sky, rise up 2   Beckoning:-gesture,signal, wave, motion 3   Beneath:-under,down, below, underneath 4   Compass:-instrument for telling direction,scope, range, extent 5   Flapped:-(of a bird) move (its wings) up and down when flying or preparing to fly,flutter, agitate, swing 6   Frightened:-terrified,fearful, afraid, scared 7   Herring:-a soft-finned sea fish,amphioxus,cavally, Eel 8   Monstrous:-horrible, demonic, infernal, huge 9   Runway:-a strip of hard ground along which aircraft take off and land,route, path, passage 10     Shrieking:-making a high-pitched piercing cry or sound,howl, squeak, scream 11     Strangely :-in a strange manner,prodigiously, quizzically, rummily 12     Brink:-the extreme edge of land before a steep slope or a body or water,strand,edge,confines 13     Cackle:-lau...

          Dust of Snow • Dust of snow:- Fine particles of snow • Hemlock tree:- A poisonous tree, the poet  chose this tree  to present his mood and feelings • Rued:- Felt sad, held in regret  • The crow and hemlock tree represent sorrow and depression felt by the poet in his materialistic world • The dust of snow is the symbol of natural joy and energy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fire and Ice • Desire:-wish • Favour:- support, inclined towards • Perish:- Die • Suffice:- enough, sufficient • ‘Fire’ in the poem stands for :-   greed, conflict, fury, cruelty, lust and avarice • ‘Ice’ in the poem stands for insensitivity, coldness, intolerance, indifference, rigidity and hatred • Destruction:- destroy, Wiping out ............................... A Tiger In The Zoo 1 Stalks:-follows, keek, espial, red baiting 2 Vivid:-bright colored,orient, splendent, flamboyant ...

 • Crest: Top of a hill • Dotted: Full Of • Downpour: Heavy Rain • Intimately: Closely, completely • Exclaimed- cry out suddenly in surprise, strong emotion, or pain. • Regarded- Consider Or Think Of In A Specified Way • Draped- Adorn, Cover, Or Wrap (Someone Or Something) • Hailstones- A Pellet Of Hail • Resemble- Have A Similar Appearance To Or Qualities In Common With (Someone Or Something); Look Or Seem Like. • Exposing- make (something) visible by uncovering it.; reveal • Amiable- Friendly And Pleasant • Predict :- forecast, future telling • Expression:- Appearance • Instructed :- told, taught • Troubled :- worried • Tap:- to strike lightly • Shake faith :- disturb the belief  • Charity :- donation , help • Bit:- Slightly, small • Deed:- Work, act • Slightest :- Minimum • Wrinkling:- Bend, fold • Blow:- Sudden stroke (by something) • plague- a destructively numerous inflow or multiplication of a harmful animal, infestation •...

   Nelson Mandela 1 Dawned:- (of a day) began ,start off, set in, develop, come 2 Awe:- amazed ,dread, terror, fear 3 Deputy:-Second in command, subordinate, junior, auxiliary 4 Emancipation:- the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions ,freeing, liberation, release 5 Stream:- a small, narrow river ,brook, flood, ford 6 Abided:- obeyed , bear, tolerate, swallow 7 Amphitheatre:-an open-air theatre, palaestra, stadium, circus 8 Apartheid:- a policy or system of segregation on grounds of race, bigotry, discrimination, illiberality. 9 Array:-an impressive display, arrangement, disposition, marshalling 10 Assembled :-(of people) gather together in one place for a common purpose, compiled, assembled, anthologized 11 Bedecked:- decorate , adorn, spruce, formalize 12 Besieged:-to be surrounded by , beleaguer, blockade, surround 13 Bondage:- the state of being a slave ,servility, enslavement, domination 14 Boyhood:- the state or time of being a b...

  1. Name the type of poetic device used in the poem, “My Mother At Sixty Six” in general. (a) enjambment (or Enjambment & End-Stopped lines) (b) zeugma    (c) repetition       (d) meter 2. Name the poetic / literary used in these lines:- “ S ixty- S ix” “pu t   t hat t hough t ” “ s mile and  s mile and /  s mile “ m y  m other” that s he was a s old a s s he looked but s oon pu t t ha t t hough t away, and looked ou t a t Young T rees sprin t ing, t he merry children spilling ou t of t heir homes (a) assonance        (b) alliteration (consonance)   (c) calligram        (d) pun 3. Identify the poetic device used in these lines:- ·        …her face ashen  like  that of a corpse… ·        that she was  as  old  as  she looke...