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Next day, at lunch time I retold the whole event to my colleague, Dhurva.
“So you think that some bad guy was trying to approach your daughter?” He
smiled.
“Why are you laughing?”

“Let me tell you why the girl friend of your daughter didn’t appear at the
meeting place. It was because her mother came with her in a car before you
reached there. The mother was watching if there was really a boy of 13. But
all she could see was an old man with a big stomach and a bald head lurking
around the meeting place. So she didn’t let her daughter get out of the car. She
just drove the car back home.”
“You mean… You mean she saw me and…” I stammered.
“Yes, she saw you. Do you know what she said about you?” He laughed. “She
said that she saw a lecherous old man with an evil leer on his face…”

1. Vocabulary in use
i. Supply the correct word from the box below after each de¿ nition.
obsessed window-shopping ridiculous stomach
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swerved lurking stammered evil
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a. preoccupied or ¿lled the mind of (someone) continually and to a
troubling extent
……………..
b. the activity of looking at goods displayed in shop windows
especially without intending to buy anything
……….……..
c. very silly or unreasonable
………………….
d. a large belly
…………………..
e. changed or caused to change direction abruptly
………………..
f. hiding so as to wait in ambush for someone or something
…………………..

g. having or showing offensive desire
…………………….
h. spoke with sudden involuntary pauses repeating the initial letters of
words
……………….
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