Question 12 of 18beginner💡 UnderstandMatching5 marks

Read the given paragraph and match the highlighted words with their meanings given in the box below.

I love to play beside a 1. running stream at a short distance from my grandparent's house. I love to see it 2. skipping along to join a river. On the river, I can see boats with 3. bulging sails moving swiftly. Some of them take the people from one shore to the other while in some of them people can be seen 4. lading things too. I can spend hours watching the busy river and dreaming about them, 5. burying my head in my pillow at night.

Box: loading speedily flowing swelling putting bouncing

Correct Answer
  1. running - flowing
  2. skipping - bouncing
  3. bulging - swelling
  4. lading - loading
  5. burying - putting
Exercise: Let us do these activities before we read | Q: II | (Chapter: Page 1)
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Explanation

This vocabulary matching exercise helps students understand contextual meanings of words. The paragraph uses descriptive words that appear in the poem: 'running' means flowing (as in a running stream), 'skipping' suggests bouncing movement, 'bulging' means swelling (as in sails filled with wind), 'lading' is an old word for loading cargo, and 'burying' here means putting or hiding one's head.

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