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2. The invisible being laughed in scorn.
3. The Yaksha was pleased with Yudhistira’s impartiality.

* We can form the opposites by adding prefixes to words.
Now replace the underlined words with ,appropriate
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words beginning with ‘un’, ‘in’ or ‘im’.
1. Bindu was not happy because she could not get good
marks.
2. It is not possible to sing like Bhimsen Joshi .
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3. Anusha could not go to school because she was not
well.
4. It is not wise to study overnight during exams.
5. The officer dismissed the clerk because he was not
competent.
6. Man is mortal but great work of art is not mortal.
Listen and Speak

Here are some sentences from the text. Listen to them
being read aloud by your teacher. Notice the voice variation.
Teacher’s voice rises and falls whenever there is a pause
either at the end of the sentence or in the middle. rise and
fallof the voice in speaking is called intonation
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1. When Nakula did not return for a long time,Yudhistira
sent Sahadeva to see what the matter was.
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2. The invisible being laughed in scorn and said,“Your
arrows can’t touch me”.
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3. What is that, by giving up which, man becomes
wealthy?
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4. What makes the sun shine every day?
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5. May the cloud-complexioned, lotus eyed, broad
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chested, long armed Nakula, lying like a fallen ebony
tree, arise.
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6. It was Yama, the lord of death, who had taken the form
of Yaksha.
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(You’ll learn more about this in future)
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