Question

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions given below:-
“Blast it, “he muttered angrily, “where is the accursed place?”
He looked at the map again spread before him on the steering wheel. Yes it
should be just here. There was the crossroad. He threw a glance round the
glass of his small saloon car and saw a man’s head bobbing beyond the hedge.
At once he got out and walked along the side of the road. “Excuse me,” he
cried. The face looked at him over the hedge. “Excuse me, but can you tell me
where Mrs. Martha Williamson stays?”
“Mrs ...... Who?”
“No”, said the face slowly, and moved away. He followed it for a few paces to a
gap in the hedge. “No,” said the man again, and turned to call a spaniel out of
the turnips. He had a gun under his arm and was obviously a gamekeeper.
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“Well, she lives about here, at Ivy Cottage.”
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“Ivy Cottage?” “Do you mean the tinkers?” And the gamekeeper regarded him
thoughtfully. “Yes I suppose so.” “I see,” said the gamekeeper, looking away.
“Turn up to the right at the crossroads there and you’ll see it standing back
from the road.
He thanked the gamekeeper and set off, walking quickly so that he needn’t
think too much about his task, for it was new to him.
When he saw the cottage, over amongst some bushes with a rank growth of
nettles at one end , he thought it a miserable place. But when he came close to
the peeling lime wash, the torn down ivy, the sagging roof, the broken stone
doorstep, thick and trampled mud, he saw that it was a wretched house.
The door stood half open, stuck. He knocked at it and listened to the acute
silence. He knocked again firmly and thought he heard thin whisperings. He
did not like the hushed fear in the sound, and was just about to knock
peremptorily when there was a shuffling and as quietly as an apparition, a
woman standing there.
1. Given below are four words/phrases. Find the words from the
passage which have a similar meaning :
i)
detestable
ii) making quick short movement up and down
iii) drooping

Answer 1

Answer:

i) Abhorrent

ii) side to side short quick

iii) Dangle

Answer 2

Answer:

I)Abhorrent

II) side to side short quick

III) Dangle