Class 11 English Snapshot Chapter 1 – The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (William Saroyan) Word Meaning

 

NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English

Snapshot

Chapter 1 – The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (William Saroyan)

Word Meaning

1.    Alfalfa – a flowering plant

2.    Capricious – inconsistent change of mood

3.    Comical – funny

4.    Dawned – appeared

5.    Daybreak – dawn

6.    Descendant – a system that develops from an earlier simple version

7.    Fury – anger

8.    Garoghlanian – an Armenian tribe

9.    Irrigation ditches – manmade channel used to deliver water to homes, industries and other uses

10. Leap out – jump out from a place

11. Magnificence – extremely beautiful

12. Orchards – a piece of land of the plantation of fruits

13. Parlour – a sitting space in a house

14. San Joaquin Valley – one of the long interior valleys of California

15. Snorted – breathed out

16. Streak – race

17. Surrey – a country in South-East England

18. Trot – proceed with something

19. Vagrant – a person without a settled home or work

20. Vineyard – plantation of grapevines used in winemaking

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