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Lesson 5
On Destroying Books
(Past Papers Synonyms)
All Boards 2011 - 2018 ( Group I - II)
1. Many people are reluctant to throw away anything that looks like a book.
Glad
Worried
Elated
Hesitant
2. It was a tramp, who had other things to think about.
Addict
Thief
Beggar
Wanderer
3. The policeman looked suspicious.
Obnoxious
Doubtful
Certain
Clear
4. The pedestrian was only a tramp.
Vagabond
Watchman
Volunteer
Guard
5. The writer was living in a heaven-kissing flat.
Lowly
Attic
Miserable
Funeral
6. The writer looked into the luminous swirl of the river.
Misty
Murky
Dim
Bright
7. In my agony of the decision, I left the embankment.
Pane
Pain
Sane
Help
8. The pedestrian came by me without looking at me.
A person walking in the street
Lazy
Thief
Beggar
9. The policeman acquitted the writer.
Fettered
Detained
Arrested
Let go
10. The lamps through their gleams across the road.
Smell
Oil
Rays
Stink
11. It was cold and foggy.
Dry
Open
Misty
Pleasant
12. I fervently hoped and year of rumination and unconcern.
Carefreeness
Carelessness
Thoughtfulness
Disturbance
13. It is absurd to keep the printed rubbish.
Wise
Silly
Happy
Agreeable
14. I idly turned the leaves.
Smartly
Lazily
Actively
Attentively
15. Perhaps he suspects I have swag in this sack.
Food
Stolen goods
Books
Stock things
16. There was a cold nip in the air.
Coldness
Nappy
Napkin
Navel
17. The writer leaned it against the parapet.
Plot
Parrot
Ground
Edge
18. The writer could not consume the books one by one in small study fire.
Deck
Decorate
Eat
burn up
19. I improvised sack and stuffed the books into it.
Bought
Arranged
Picked
Threw
20. I was not seriously disturbed as I knew that I could bear investigation.
Theft
Change
Blame
Enquiry
21. There were few solitary travellers on the way.
Lonely
Young
Educated
Old
22. It is not merely absurd to keep rubbish merely because it is printed.
Waste
Preciousness
Praise
Exaltation
23. The books for lying forlornly on the ooze at the bottom of the river.
Happy
Lonely
Delighted
Hopeful
24. The books of poetry accumulated in the flat of the writer.
Catered
Scattered
Gathered
Floated
25. It is sometimes difficult to find scaffold for them.
Store
Rope
Place
Gallows
Answers
1. Hesitant
2. Wanderer
3. Doubtful
4. Vagabond
5. Attic
6. Bright
7. Pain
8. A person walking in the street
9. Let go
10. Rays
11. Misty
12. Carelessness
13. Silly
14. Lazily
15. Stolen goods
16. Coldness
17. Edge
18. Burn up
19. Arranged
20. Enquiry
21. Lonely
22. Waste
23. Lonely
24. Gathered
25. Gallows