NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English
Hornbill
Chapter 5 – Silk Road (Nick Middleton)
Word Meaning
- Accumulated – gathered
- Arid – having little or no rain
- Billowed – filled with air; swelled out
- Bounding – jump; hop; bounce
- Brackish – slightly salty water
- Brook – a small stream
- Careered down – sinking the slope
- Cavernous – vast
- Clambered – move or climb in an awkward way
- Clung – hold tightly onto something
- Confinement – detention; captivity
- Daubed – spread a thick sticky substance on a
surface carelessly
- Derelict – ruined
- Devout – deep
- Drokba – Shepherd
- Ducking Back – going inside and then coming out
- En masse – in a group
- Encrusted – decorated with a hard surface layer
- Envisaged – predicted
- Evasive – slippery
- Ferocious – cruel or violent
- Festooned – decorated
- Flanks – sides
- Fling – throw
- Flocks – a group of birds
- Forge – put together; build-up
- Frown – to disapprove of something
- Gazelles – an African or Asian mammal with large
eyes that moves quickly and hoofs
- Glinting – sparkle or twinkle
- Heaps – loads
- Incongruous – strange
- Kora – meditation performed by Buddhist believers
- Lichen – a slow-growing plant which grows on
walls, trees or rocks
- Lurching – listing
- Manoeuvres – military exercises
- Mastiffs – a dog who is a strong breed with
dropping ears saggy ears
- Meanders – to follow a winding course of a river
or road
- Nibbling – take a small bite from
- Nocturnal – night time
- Paraphernalia – miscellaneous articles
- Pellets – shots
- Petered out – to diminish gradually and stop
- Plumes – Trails
- Pockmarked – disfigured with a scar
- Propping – to hold up
- Prostrating – lying down
- Rickety – unstable
- Rudimentary – basic or primary
- Salt flats – thatched roof covered with snow
- Shaggy – bushy or hairy
- Slither – to move smoothly over a surface
- Stark – plain
- Stout – firm
- Swathe – a long strip of land
- Swerve – change direction suddenly
- Throb – pulsate
- Transpired – leaked
- Veering – to change direction suddenly
- Venerated – respected
- Vestiges – a trace of something that is disappearing
- Well-trodden – much frequented by travellers
- Wisp – a small amount of something
- Wreathed – twisted
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