Answer all the questions:
Choose the appropriate synonyms for the underlined word:
1. I wanted to pursue cricket seriously.
a) handshake b) play
c) follow
d) give
2. Clem looked at Pongo furiously.
a) politely
b) gently
c) angrily
d) calmly
3. A little stream trickling over the rocks.
a) filling
b) seeping
c) offering
d) meeking
Choose the appropriate antonyms for the underlined word:
4. A blessing rests on the house where the shadow of the tree falls.
a) cursing
b) hurrying
c) fearing
d) troubling
5. Oh, Jim, I'm scared.
a) tried
b) created
c) searched d) brave
6. Clem Jones was a careful planner.
a) gentleness b) kindleness c) careless
d) perfection
7. Choose the correct plural form of bush from the following:
a) bush
b) bushes
c) bush
d) bushies
8. Form a derivative by adding the right suffix to the word kind.
a) ship
b) ness
c) ist
d) er
9. Choose the correct expansion of the abbreviation JRC.
a) Journal Red Cross
b) Jupiter Red Cross
c) Junior Red Cross
d) Junior Republic Cross
10. Complete the following sentences using the most appropriate preposition given be
Answers
1. I wanted to pursue cricket seriously.
a) handshake
b) play
c) follow ✔
d) give
Pursue means to go after something or someone.
2. Clem looked at Pongo furiously.
a) politely
b) gently
c) angrily ✔
d) calmly
Angrily is the correct synonym of the word furiously.
3. A little stream trickling over the rocks.
a) filling
b) seeping ✔
c) offering
d) meeking
Trickling (or seeping) refers to the oozing of water from minor cracks and holes in the rocks.
4. A blessing rests on the house where the shadow of the tree falls.
a) cursing ✔
b) hurrying
c) fearing
d) troubling
To bless means to wish someone that his/her favour gets fulfilled and its antonym is to curse.
5. Oh, Jim, I'm scared.
a) tried
b) created
c) searched
d) brave ✔
Scared means to have fear of something and its antonym is brave.
6. Clem Jones was a careful planner.
a) gentleness
b) kindliness
c) careless ✔
d) perfection
Careful means to do something carefully and its opposite is careless (done without care).
7. Choose the correct plural form of bush from the following:
a) bush
b) bushes ✔
c) bush
d) bushies
Bushes is the plural of bush.
8. Form a derivative by adding the right suffix to the word kind.
a) ship
b) ness ✔
c) ist
d) er
Kindness is the noun form of kind.
9. Choose the correct expansion of the abbreviation JRC.
a) Journal Red Cross
b) Jupiter Red Cross
c) Junior Red Cross ✔
d) Junior Republic Cross
Junior Red Cross is the students' wing of the international organization - Red Cross and they help the unhealthy and and the suffering and also promote campaigns on good health.
I wanted to PURSUE cricket seriously