Worksheet Solutions: Vocabulary | English Grammar Basic - Class 10 PDF Download

Q1: Fill in the blanks with the right alternative.
(i)
(a) Today the ______ of Shillong is pleasant. (weather/climate)
(b) Both the parties came to an _______ settlement. (amicable/amiable)
Ans:
(a) Today the weather of Shillong is pleasant. 
(b) Both the parties came to an amicable settlement. 

(ii)
(a) It is not proper to _____ through an open window. (see/look)
(b) His parents' warnings had no ______ on him. (affect/effect)
Ans:
(a) It is not proper to look through an open window.
(b) His parents' warnings had no effect on him. 

(iii) 
(a) The ______ in my shop is not good today. (sell/sale)
(b) He ______ good English. (says/speaks)
Ans:
(a) The sale in my shop is not good today. 
(b) He speaks good English. 

(iv) 
(a) He has easy _____ to the ministers. (access/excess)
(b) Hundreds of soldiers were ______ in the battle. (wounded/injured)
Ans:
(a) He has easy access to the ministers. 
(b) Hundreds of soldiers were wounded in the battle.

(v) 
(a) My warnings had no _____ on the boy. (affect/effect)
(b) He couldn't _____ himself to the new situation. (adopt/adapt)
Ans:
(a) My warnings had no effect on the boy.
(b) He couldn't adapt himself to the new situation.

Q2: Complete the following sentences using an appropriate word or phrase.
(i) Good restaurants serving pure vegetarian food are hard to _______
(a) get through
(b) come by
(c) take in
(d) get in
Ans: (b)

(ii) Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the word 'mania'?
(a) greatness
(b) madness
(c) stupidity
(d) fame
Ans: (b)

(iii) Winning the Oscar Award was a _______ in her career.
(a) yardstick
(b) milestone
(c) memorial
(d) sign-post
Ans: (b)

(iv) To be _______, I don't think you did the right thing.
(a) clever
(b) free
(c) frank
(d) straight
Ans: (c)

(v) People traveling across deserts may see objects which are not really there. Which of the following terms is used to refer to this phenomenon?
(a) mirage
(b) montage
(c) vintag
(c) melange
Ans: (a)

Q3: Write the correct word form
(i) Marconi is known for _______ (invent) of radio.
Ans: invention

(ii) Ramu is a __________ (knowledge) person.
Ans: knowledgeable

(iii) Namita is ___________ (know) for dancing.
Ans: known

(iv) Dhanush is ___________ (interest) in music.
Ans: interested

(v) Short stories are very __________ (interest) for children to read.
Ans: interesting

Q4: At eleven he had a horror of death. Within six impressionable years, his parents had died and his grandmother had faded off almost _______, until, for the first time since her marriage, her person held for one day an unquestioned supremacy over her own drawing room.
(a) imperceptibly              
(b) suddenly                  
(c) Tragically                
(d) violently
Ans: (a)
When you answer questions like these make sure that you read all the parts of the paragraph. For example, here if you focus only on the first part only, you will see that every option fits the blank perfectly. So for the answer, the first part is not relevant. In the second part, you should see that the sentence talks about the grandmother. It says that one day, for the first time the grandmother ” held an unquestioned supremacy.” This hints at the fact that the death of the grandmother was not a crucial or a great impact on the subject of the sentence. So the blank should be filled with something of a similar meaning. Something not that important or in other words (a) imperceptible.

Q5: Read the following paragraph and fill in the blanks.
At sixteen he had lived almost entirely within himself, a _______ boy, thoroughly un-American, and politely bewildered by his contemporaries. The two preceding years had been spent in Europe with a private tutor, who persuaded him that Harvard was the thing; it would “open doors,” it would be a tremendous tonic, it would give him innumerable self-sacrificing and devoted friends. So he went to Harvard–there was no other logical thing to be done with him.
(a) unfriendly
(b) unimaginative
(c) inarticulate
(d) unpleasant
Ans: (c)
If you read the paragraph, and try out each option once, you will see that the option is (c) inarticulate. The reason for it is in the first sentence itself. The first part says that the boy lived almost entirely within himself. That means he was shy. The rest of the paragraph qualifies this quality. So the correct option is (c).

Q6: Read the following paragraph and fill in the blanks.
“He returned to America in 1912 because of one of his grandfather’s sudden illnesses, and after an excessively tiresome talk with the perpetually _____ old man he decided to put off until his grandfather’s death the idea of living permanently abroad. After a prolonged search, he took an apartment on Fifty-second Street and to all appearances settled down.”
(a) convalescent      
(b) convergant        
(c) talkative          
(d) repulsive
Ans: (a)