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
