Lesson-14
The
Hummingbird that Lived Through Winter
(New) Word-Meanings
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Word |
Meaning |
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1. |
compassionate |
good-hearted |
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2. |
severe |
painful
or harmful |
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3. |
behold |
to
gaze upon |
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4. |
swift |
quick |
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5. |
warmth |
warm
in temperature |
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6. |
generously |
noble |
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7. |
magnificent |
heroic |
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8. |
stir |
to
begin to move |
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9. |
suspended |
swing |
Question-Answers
B. Read this line from the text given below and answer
the questions:
1. “What is this in my hand?”
(a) Who said this to whom?
Answer: Dikran said this to the
narrator.
(b) What was there in the
speaker’s hand?
Answer: The
speaker was having a ‘hummingbird’ in his hand.
(c) Why couldn’t the speaker figure out
what the thing was? How did he find out what it was?
Answer: The speaker couldn’t figure out what the thing was because he was visually
challenged. With the help of the narrator, he found out that it was a
hummingbird.
2. “Each one of them is our bird.”
(a) What had the speaker
been asked?
Answer: The narrator asked the
old man that -“Do you remember the little bird that was dying last winter—the one
we give warm honey to? Did it live?”
(b) What is the speaker
talking about in this line?
Answer: The
speaker is talking about the hummingbird, in this line.
(c) What do you get to know about the speaker from this line?
Answer: Through this line, we get to know
about the compassionate and loving nature of the old man towards the things
from the sky.
