Important Spellings & Word-Meanings, Class-12th, Subject-English,

Class-12th

Subject-English

Date- 18/4/2020

Day- Saturday

 

Spelling & word-meanings of ‘The Last Lesson’

 

Spelling

·      Participles

·      Prussian

·      Drilling

·      Bulletin-board

·      Blacksmith

·      Frightened

·      Primer

·      Apprentice

·      Spectacles

·      Attentive

·      Cranky

·      Recite

·      Patience

·      Thunderclap

·      Wretches

·      Patience

·      Floating

·      Scratching

·      Hopvine

·      Pigeon

Word-meanings

§  Scolding-rebuking

§  Plenty-enough

§  Making a fun-laugh at

§  Terrible-dreadful

§  Kindly-politely

§  Give up-leave

§  Anxious-worried

§  Ought to-should

§  Dread-Fear

§  Drilling-Parading

§  In unison-together

§  Commotion-confusion

§  Former- previous

§  Beetles- flying insects

§  Vive La France-Long live France


Class-12th

Subject-English

Date- 29/4/2020

Day- Wednesday

 

Poem - My Mother at Sixty Six (Kamala Das)

 

Important Spellings & word-meanings

 

Spellings

·      ashen

·      corpse

·      realised

·      affection

·      sprinting

·      spilling

·      daughter

·      familiar

·      accompanies

·      ache

·      children

·      Cochin

·      security

·      arouse

 

Word-meanings

§  arouse- awake, rouse

§  doze- drowse, snooze, sleep lightly

§  ashen- ash coloured, bloodless

§  corpse- stiff, dead body

§  unconscious- thought away

§  sprinting- running fast

§  spilling- coming out

§  wan- sick, pale, weak, colourless

§  familiar- well known

§  ache- pain

Class-12th

Subject-English

Date- 06/05/2020

Day- Wednesday

 

1. The Third Level (Jack Finney)

 

Important Spellings & word-meanings

 

Spellings

·      Psychiatrist

·      Curious

·      Experience

·      Believe

·      Presidents

·      Obvious

·      Fulfillment

·      Insecurity

·      Collection

·      Practically

·      Gabardine

·      Corridor

·      Twentieth

·      Century

·      Locomotives

·      Tremendous

·      Flickering

·      Premium

·      Disappeared

·      lemonade

 

Word-meanings

§  Psychiatrist- mental disease expert

§  Uptown - residential area

§  Apartment- flat

§  Subway- underground way

§  Corridor- passage to a building

§  Gabardine – a kind of cloth

§  Slanting- sloping

§  Lemonade- lemon drink

§  Flickering- waving

§  Spittoon- vessel to spit into

§  Locomotives- railway engines

§  Stack – chimney

§  Worth- value

§  Flight – stairs between two landings

Tunnel - burrow

Class-12th

Subject-English

Date- 12/05/2020

Day- Tuesday

 

2. Lost Spring- Stories of Stolen Childhood (Anees Jung)

 

Important Spellings & word-meanings

 

Spellings

·      Scrounging

·      Embarrassed

·      Shuffles

·      Tradition

·      Perpetual

·      Ragpickers

·      Desolation

·      Acquaintance

·      Periphery

·      Squatters

·      Survival

·      Proportion

·      Impoverished

·      Achieve

·      Bureaucrats

 

Word-meanings

§  Garbage – rubbish, waste material,

§  Scrounging – searching for something

§  Dumps – heaps

§  Swept away – washed away

§  Embarrassed – uncomfortable

§  Bleak – dark, desolate

§  Roams – wanders

§  Shuffles – keeps shifting

§  Tradition – custom

§  Wonder – surprise

§  Perpetual – never ending, endless

§  Desolation – ruin, gloom, unhappiness

§  Panting – breathing heavily

§  Periphery – border, boundary

§  Aching – paining

§  Survival – living

§  Tattered – torn to pieces

§  Transit – passing, temporary

§  Proportions – forms, part, portion,

§  Discarded – given up

§  Mirage – false appearance

§  Dingy – dark and dirty

§  Slog – toil, labour, hard work

§  Hearth – furnace

§  Volunteers – offers himself for service

§  Wobbly – unstable

§  Renovate – repair

§  Impoverished – very poor

§  Trapped – cheated

§  Apathy – indifference

§  Stigma – mark of disgrace

§  Hurtling – clattering

Class-12th

Subject-English

Date- 20/05/2020

Day- Wednesday

 

2. POEM - An Elementary School ClasPoemoom in a Slum (Stephen Spender)

 

Important Spellings & word-meanings

 

Spellings

·      Elementary

·      Pallor

·      Stunted

·      Twisted

·      Gnarled

·      Disease

·      Unnoted

·      Squirrel

·      Donations

·      Shakespeare

·      Tempting

·      Slyly

·      Cramped

·      Spectacles

·      Governor

·      Inspector

·      Visitor

·      Catacombs

·      Tongues

·      Language

·      Miserable

 

Word-meanings

§  Weeds – useless plants

§  Gnarled – twisted

§  Stormy – gusty

§  Fog – mist

§  Wicked – bad

§  Slyly – secretly

§  Cramped – narrow

§  Slums  - dirty area

§  Slag – waste material

§  Doom – ruin

§  Catacombs – graves

§  Azure – blue

Class-12th

Subject-English

Date- 26/05/2020

Day- Tuesday

 

2. The Tiger King (Kalki)

 

Important Spellings & word-meanings

 

Spellings

·      Pretending

·      Strategic

·      Withdrawal

·      Imperative

·      Indomitable

·      Fantastic

·      Astrologers

·      Warrior

·      Prophets

·      Prediction

·      Incredible

·      Terrifying

·      Rumour

·      Innumerable

·      Incoherent

·      Celebration

·      Deliberations

·      Statistics

·      Catastrophic

·      Thoroughly

·      Bafflement

·      Erected

·      Suppurating

 

Word-meanings

§  Strategic – important, planned, calculated

§  Imperative – necessary

§  Vital – important

§  Indomitable –  unbeatable, unyielding

§  Abode – home, house, rooms

§  Demise – death

§  Foretold – predicted

§  Prophets – foretellers

§  Prediction – forecast

§  Incredible –  unbelievable

§  Nanny – nurse

§  Tuft – bunch of hair, knot

§  Carcass – dead body

§  Deliberations – discussion

§  Hara-kiri – suicide

§  Shuddering – trembling

§  Babble – childish talk

§  Adorned- decorated

§  Savage – cruel

§  Rage – anger

§  Thoroughly – completely

§  Supplication – prayer

§  Bafflement – confusion

§  Erected – built

Class-12th

Subject-English

Date- 18/07/2020

Day- Saturday

 

Topic- Word-meanings and important spellings

 

3. Keeping Quiet (Pablo Neruda)

 

Word-meanings

·      Keep still – not to move

·      Exotic – unusual

·      Still – motionless

·      Victory – triumph

·      Confused – misunderstood

·      Huge – big

·      Inactivity – lethargy

·      Perhaps – probably

Important spellings

·      Quiet

·      Quite

·      Quit

·      Twelfth

·      Language

·      Exotic

·      Engines

·      Strangeness

·      Together

·      Unusual

·      Motionless

·      Gathering

·      Prepare

·      Survivors

·      Triumph

·      Inactivity

·      Lethargy

·      Misunderstood

·      Quietness

·      Interrupt

·      Threatening

·      Probably

·      intervene