NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English
Hornbill
Chapter 2 – We’re Not
Afraid to Die… If We Can All Be Together (Gorden
Cook and Alan East)
Word meanings
- Abated – something unpleasant to become less intense
- Aft – near the stern of the ship
- Anchored – moor a ship to the sea bottom
- Ashore – on the shore of the land
- Atrocious – bad; of a very poor quality
- Auxiliary engine – small secondary engine Bashed –
strike hard; hit
- Bleak – an area of land lacking vegetation
- Bulged – swell
- Bunk – bed
- Canvas – a strong unbleached cloth
- Capsizing – be overturned in the water
- Caricatures – picture of a person; cartoon
- Crest – reach the top of a wave
- Debris – rubbish
- Deck – a floor of a ship
- Deflected: turned aside
- Deteriorate – get worse
- Dinghies – a small boat for recreation with mast or
sail
- Donned – put on, wore
- Dozed off – went off to sleep
- Enormous – a very large size
- Forestay – a rope to support ship’s foremast
- Frightful – very unpleasant or shocking
- Gales – A very strong wind
- Gigantic – huge; of a big size
- Hatch – door
- Heave to – to raise or lift with effort
- Honing – sharpen, improving
- Hull – the framework of the vessel
- Hurled – throw with a great force
- Impending – about to happen
- Jib – a triangular staysail set forward the mast in a
ship
- Keel – steel structure along the base of the ship
- Knots – a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per
hour, used especially of ships, aircraft, or winds
- Lashed – to hit with a lot of force
- Leisure – free time
- Loop – a shape produced that bends round and crosses;
bent
- Mast – a tall upright structure on a boat or ship
- Mayday calls –words used to signal ships stuck in a
disastrous situation through radio
- Mooring – the ropes, chains, or anchors by or to which
a boat, ship, or buoy is moored
- Offshore – situated at the sea some distance from the
shore
- Oilskins – heavy cotton cloth waterproofed with oil
- Ominous silence – unpleasant or threatening silence
- Optimistic – hopeful and confident
- Pinpricks – a prick caused by a pin
- Respite – a short period of rest
- Rigging – the ropes and wires supporting the structure
of the ship
- Scrambled – climb; claw one’s way
- Seafaring – regularly traveling by sea
- Sextant – an instrument with graduated arc of 60
degrees for taking altitudes and navigation
- Shook – past tense of shake (vibrate)
- Sloshed – move through liquid with a splashing sound.
- Smashed – badly broken
- Smashed – shattered or violently broken
- Starboard – side of a ship which is on the right side
when one is facing forward
- Stark – sharply defined
- Stern – the back part of a ship or a boat
- Taut – stretched or pulled tightly
- Timbers – wood board used in building of a ship
- Torrent – a fast moving stream of water
- Tousled head – disarranged hair of the narrator’s son,
Jonathan
- Tremendous – very great in amount
- Voyage – a long journey by sea or space
- Wooden-hulled – a watertight body of a ship
- Wrenched – pull suddenly, removed
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