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