think of some who have fought their disabilities heroically and remained a stellar example for others? (for e.g. the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, a paraplegic). Give an account of one such person and his/her struggle to live a fruitful life.
a) Go through the lesson and spot the words which mean the same as the following. . profession (para ) . sorrowful (para ) .
decency (para ) . destiny (para ) . hijacked (para ) . motivation (para ) .
serious (para ) . significant (para ) b) Go through the lesson and spot the words opposite to the meaning of the following. . rare (para ) .
primitive (para ) . fiction (para ) . fearful (para ) . benign (para ) .
diffidence (para ) . boredom (para ) . criticize (para ) Vocabulary 12th - - Page c) Frame illustrative sentences to distinguish the meaning of the words in the following clusters. .
career – carrier – courier . patients – patience – patents . accident – incident – incidence . scraping – scrapping – scrubbing .
accept – except – expect . lesson – lessen – lesion . severe – sever – sewer . raise – rise– rice .
quiet – quite – quit . final – finale – feline d) Fill in the blanks with the words given in brackets. [profound, amusement, confidence, agony, solace, intrepid, disfigured, perforated] . Theatrical plays were a main source of before the advent of television.
. The warriors of the Spartan Army marched into battle against a powerful enemy. . The of parents finally came to an end when their lost child was found with the help of police.
. Social media has brought about a impact on the lives of millennials. . The tyres of the car got when the vehicle rolled over the rusted nails scattered on the road.
. Thomas Alva Edison did not lose his , even after facing a series of experimental failures in his quest to discover tungsten. . Many victims of the pipeline explosion