1st PUC English Workbook Answers Dictionary Use
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UNIT – C
Reference Skills
9.) Dictionary Use
Rearrange the following words as they would appear in dictionary.
Answer: calories
Dairy
Fatty
Nutrition
Peel
Pepper
Potato
Preserve
Protein
Pumpkin
Starvation
Vegetarian
a) Find the guide words which will help you to look up each of the following words. You can refer any dictionary.
Word | Guide Words | |
Buffalo | Bluff | Bear |
Element | Electrode | Electric |
Forest | Fires | Forestland |
Language | Land | Later |
Persuade | Pertain | Per |
b) Write the full form of the following abbreviations used in the dictionary.
1.) pl – Plural
2.) pp – Past participle
3.) ~ – Replacement of a word
4.) fml – Formal
5.) v – Verb
6.) adj – Adjective
7.) N [U] – Noun Uncountable
8.) N [C] – Noun Countable
9.) prep – Preposition
10.) sth – Something
11.) sb – Somebody
12.) Adv – Adjective
c) Read the following sentences and use the dictionary entry on the word “collapse” in different contexts and complete the table below.
Sentence No. |
Part of Speech for ‘collapse‘ | The sentence talks about |
Dictionary meaning and number for collapse |
1.) | Verb | buildings | to fall down or fall in
suddenly (1) |
2.) | Verb | Lungs (illness) | If a lung or blood vessel collapses or is collapsed, it falls in and becomes flat and empty (7) |
3.) | Noun | Communication | Sudden failure in of something (1) |
4.) | Verb | Children’s laughter | |
5.) | Noun | Currency | To decrease suddenly in amount or value (5) |