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

 

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

1. Abated – something unpleasant to become less intense
2. Aft – near the stern of the ship
3. Anchored – moor a ship to the sea bottom
4. Ashore – on the shore of the land
5. Atrocious – bad; of a very poor quality
6. Auxiliary engine – small secondary engine Bashed – strike hard; hit
7. Bleak – an area of land lacking vegetation
8. Bulged – swell
9. Bunk – bed
10. Canvas – a strong unbleached cloth
11. Capsizing – be overturned in the water
12. Caricatures – picture of a person; cartoon
13. Crest – reach the top of a wave
14. Debris – rubbish
15. Deck – a floor of a ship
16. Deflected: turned aside
17. Deteriorate – get worse
18. Dinghies – a small boat for recreation with mast or sail
19. Donned – put on, wore
20. Dozed off – went off to sleep 
21. Enormous – a very large size
22. Forestay – a rope to support ship’s foremast
23. Frightful – very unpleasant or shocking
24. Gales – A very strong wind
25. Gigantic – huge; of a big size
26. Hatch – door
27. Heave to – to raise or lift with effort
28. Honing – sharpen, improving
29. Hull – the framework of the vessel
30. Hurled – throw with a great force
31. Impending – about to happen
32. Jib – a triangular staysail set forward the mast in a ship
33. Keel – steel structure along the base of the ship
34. Knots – a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, used especially of ships, aircraft, or winds
35. Lashed – to hit with a lot of force
36. Leisure – free time
37. Loop – a shape produced that bends round and crosses; bent
38. Mast – a tall upright structure on a boat or ship
39. Mayday calls –words used to signal ships stuck in a disastrous situation through radio
40. Mooring – the ropes, chains, or anchors by or to which a boat, ship, or buoy is moored
41. Offshore – situated at the sea some distance from the shore
42. Oilskins – heavy cotton cloth waterproofed with oil
43. Ominous silence – unpleasant or threatening silence
44. Optimistic – hopeful and confident
45. Pinpricks – a prick caused by a pin
46. Respite – a short period of rest
47. Rigging – the ropes and wires supporting the structure of the ship
48. Scrambled – climb; claw one’s way
49. Seafaring – regularly traveling by sea
50. Sextant – an instrument with graduated arc of 60 degrees for taking altitudes and navigation
51. Shook – past tense of shake (vibrate)
52. Sloshed – move through liquid with a splashing sound.
53. Smashed – badly broken
54. Smashed – shattered or violently broken
55. Starboard – side of a ship which is on the right side when one is facing forward
56. Stark – sharply defined
57. Stern – the back part of a ship or a boat
58. Taut – stretched or pulled tightly
59. Timbers – wood board used in building of a ship
60. Torrent – a fast moving stream of water
61. Tousled head – disarranged hair of the narrator’s son, Jonathan
62. Tremendous – very great in amount
63. Voyage – a long journey by sea or space
64. Wooden-hulled – a watertight body of a ship
65. Wrenched – pull suddenly, removed