Class 11 English Snapshot Chapter 2 – The Address (Margo Minco) Word Meaning

 

NCERT Solutions For Class 11 English

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Chapter 2 – The Address (Margo Minco)

Word Meaning

1. Acquaintance – stranger or social contact
2. Beckoned – signaled
3. Chink – narrow opening
4. Crick – cramp or spasm in muscles
5. Cumbersome – unmanageable
6. Enamel – an opaque or semi-transparent substance that is a type of glass
7. Endured – suffered
8. Fleetingly – for a short time
9. Hanukkah – The Feast of Lights, a Hebrew festival in December
10. Jamb – side post of a window, fireplace or doorway
11. Jingling – ringing
12. Lugging – carry a heavy object with great effort
13. Midst – middle
14. Muggy – humid
15. Musty – stale
16. Pewter plate – plate made of a gray alloy of tin
17. Pityingly – feeling sorrow
18. Reprovingly – critically
19. Vain – hopeless