Class 12 English Vistas Chapter 2 – The Tiger King Word meaning

 

NCERT Solutions For Class 12 English

Vistas

Chapter 2 – The Tiger King

Word meaning

 

 

Adorned: make more beautiful or attractive.

Ascertained: make sure of.

Astonishing: extremely surprising or impressive

Astrologers: a person who predicts future.

Babble: talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way.

Bafflement: to confuse, bewilder

Bare: not clothed or covered.

Boundless: unlimited or immense.

Brandishing: wave or flourish something as a threat or in anger or excitement.

Carcass: the dead body of an animal.

Carved: cut or engraved to produce an object, design, or inscription.

Catastrophic: involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering.

Compelled: forced to do something.

Confiscated: taken or seized with authority.

Crumpled: crushed to form creases and wrinkles.

Deliberations: long and careful consideration or discussion.

Demise: death

Dispelled: make a doubt, feeling, or belief disappear.

Drawled: speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sounds.

Durai: Chief leader (English officer)

Elation: great happiness and exhilaration.

Enunciated: say or pronounce clearly

Erected: put together and set upright

Exemption: state of being free from an obligation  

Flared: having a shape that widens progressively towards the end or bottom. 

Fling: throw or hurl forcefully.

Flout: openly disregard a rule, law, or convention

Fonder: having an affection or liking for.

Forthwith: immediately; without delay.

Fury: wild or violent anger.

Growl: make a low guttural sound in the throat.

Harakiri: ritual suicide by disembowelment with a sword

Hastened: be quick to do something.

Haul: pull or drag with effort or force. 

Hindsight: understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened or developed.  

Imperative: vital importance

Incoherent:  expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way

Indomitable: impossible to defeat.

Inhabiting:  live in or occupy a place or environment.

Intently: with earnest and eager attention. 

Leapt: jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force.

Mounted: riding an animal

Nanny: a person, typically a woman, employed to look after a child in its own home.

Obstinacy: stubbornness.

Possessed: have as belonging to one

Proclamation: a public or official announcement dealing with a matter of great importance.

Prophets: proclaimer of the will of God.  

Quake: shake or tremble.

Quills: the hollow sharp spines of a porcupine, hedgehog, or other spiny mammal.

Relented: become less severe or intense.

Savage: fierce, violent, and uncontrolled.

Shoved: make one’s way by pushing someone or something.

Shuddering: tremble convulsively

Squeaky: having or making a high-pitched sound or cry.

Stuka bomber: German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.

Stupefaction: make someone unable to think or feel properly.

Supplication: the action of asking or begging for something earnestly or humbly.

Suppurating: undergo the formation of pus

Throne: a ceremonial chair for a sovereign

Tuft: a bunch or collection of threads, grass, hair, etc., held or growing together at the base.

Vital: essential.

Vowed: solemnly promise to do a specified thing.

Wandered: walk or move in a leisurely or aimless way.

Wantonly: in a deliberate and unprovoked way.

Wary: feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems.

Whizzing: move quickly through the air with a whistling or buzzing sound.