Question

Mridu crept up to the window. Lalli was sitting a little distance away, awkwardly

holding her violin and bowstring, her elbows jutting out and her eyes glazed with

concentration. In front of her, with most of his back to the window, was the bony

figure of the music-master. He had a mostly bald head with a fringe of oiled

black hair falling around his ears and an old-fashioned tuft. A gold chain

gleamed around his leathery neck, and a diamond ring glittered on his hand as

it glided up and down the stem of the violin. A large foot stuck out from beneath

his gold-bordered veshti edge, and he was beating time on the floor with the

scrawny big toe. He played a few notes. Lalli stumbled behind him on her violin,

which looked quite helpless and unhappy in her hands. What a difference! The

music-master’s notes seemed to float up and settle perfectly into the invisible

tracks of the melody. It was like the wheels of a train fitting smoothly into the

rails and whizzing along, as Ravi said. Mridu stared at that huge, beringed hand

moving effortlessly up the violin’s stem, making lovely music. Squawk! There was

Lalli derailing again

1. Give synonym from the passage for- slide ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Lalit was sitting a little distance away