Class 11 English Hornbill Chapter 5 – Silk Road (Nick Middleton) Word Meaning

 

NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English

Hornbill

Chapter 5 – Silk Road (Nick Middleton)

Word Meaning

  1. Accumulated – gathered
  2. Arid – having little or no rain
  3. Billowed – filled with air; swelled out
  4. Bounding – jump; hop; bounce
  5. Brackish – slightly salty water
  6. Brook – a small stream
  7. Careered down – sinking the slope
  8. Cavernous – vast
  9. Clambered – move or climb in an awkward way
  10. Clung – hold tightly onto something
  11. Confinement – detention; captivity
  12. Daubed – spread a thick sticky substance on a surface carelessly
  13. Derelict – ruined
  14. Devout – deep
  15. Drokba – Shepherd
  16. Ducking Back – going inside and then coming out
  17. En masse – in a group
  18. Encrusted – decorated with a hard surface layer
  19. Envisaged – predicted
  20. Evasive – slippery
  21. Ferocious – cruel or violent
  22. Festooned – decorated
  23. Flanks – sides
  24. Fling – throw
  25. Flocks – a group of birds
  26. Forge – put together; build-up
  27. Frown – to disapprove of something
  28. Gazelles – an African or Asian mammal with large eyes that moves quickly and hoofs
  29. Glinting – sparkle or twinkle  
  30. Heaps – loads
  31. Incongruous – strange
  32. Kora – meditation performed by Buddhist believers
  33. Lichen – a slow-growing plant which grows on walls, trees or rocks
  34. Lurching – listing
  35. Manoeuvres – military exercises
  36. Mastiffs – a dog who is a strong breed with dropping ears saggy ears
  37. Meanders – to follow a winding course of a river or road
  38. Nibbling – take a small bite from
  39. Nocturnal – night time
  40. Paraphernalia – miscellaneous articles
  41. Pellets – shots
  42. Petered out – to diminish gradually and stop
  43. Plumes – Trails
  44. Pockmarked – disfigured with a scar
  45. Propping – to hold up
  46. Prostrating – lying down
  47. Rickety – unstable
  48. Rudimentary – basic or primary
  49. Salt flats – thatched roof covered with snow
  50. Shaggy – bushy or hairy
  51. Slither – to move smoothly over a surface
  52. Stark – plain
  53. Stout – firm
  54. Swathe – a long strip of land
  55. Swerve – change direction suddenly
  56. Throb – pulsate
  57. Transpired – leaked
  58. Veering – to change direction suddenly
  59. Venerated – respected
  60. Vestiges – a trace of something that is disappearing
  61. Well-trodden – much frequented by travellers
  62. Wisp – a small amount of something
  63. Wreathed – twisted

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