Flamingo Lost Spring– Stories of Stolen Childhood (Anees Jung)Word meaning

 

NCERT Solutions For Class 12 English

Flamingo

Lost Spring– Stories of Stolen Childhood (Anees Jung)

Word meaning

 

Part 1

Abound – exist in large numbers

Amidst – in the middle of

Bleak – empty

Bother – worry

Content – satisfied

Desolation – the state of being empty

Embarrassed – feeling ashamed

Glibly – speaking or spoken in a confident way, but without careful thought or honesty

Hollow – meaningless

Lighting up – show joy and happiness

Metaphorically–symbolically

Mutters – to speak in a low voice

Panting – taking short and quick breathes

Periphery- outer area

Scrounging – searching for

Shuffles – slides them over each other

Squatters – a person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land

Tarpaulin- heavy-duty waterproof cloth

Tattered – torn

Transit homes – a temporary home

Wilderness- a wasteland

 

Part 2

Amidst – in the middle of

Apathy – lack of concern

Auspiciousness – good omen

Baggage – burden

Bangs – hits

Bureaucrats – government officials

Choked – blocked

Coexisting – present at the same time and place

Crumbling – falling down

Daylight hours – hours of the day when there is sunlight

Destiny – fate

Dingy – dark, dim

Drab – faded, colourless

Draped – covered

Echo – repeat

Furnaces – a closed room or container where heat is produced

Hauled up – dragged, taken away

Hovels – slums

Imposed – forced upon

Impoverished – very poor 

Lament – complaint

Mounds – heaps

Piled – kept one on top of the other

Primeval – prehistoric

Reaped – received as a benefit

Renovate – repair

Sanctity – the state of being sacred or holy

Shanty town – a town that is full of small, roughly built huts

Slog – work hard

Soldering – joining

Spiral – here, a never-ending continuous process

Stigma – dishonor

Stinking – bad smell

Toil – physical hard work done to earn a living

Unkempt – not taken care of

Veil – a piece of fine material worn by women to protect or hide the face, cover or hide

Volunteers – freely offers to do something

Welding – joining

Welding – the process of joining metal or glass pieces by heating them

Wobbly – unsteady

Yard – the open area at the back of the house