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32 Choice of words 33 Gems of India

The words that we use in our conversation depends upon our vocabulary. These famous people have made India proud in different fields of work. They

Vocabulary means all the words known and used by a person. Check your are the true gems of India! Can you identify them?
vocabulary by doing this simple exercise.
Circle the word in bracket that best completes each sentence.

1. As the Sun rose, the dark outline of the mountain peak became (patriotic/

erratic/visible).

2. We must find a way to make drivers (comply/break/propel) with the 1. Indian Economist and 2. Famous Indian 3. Indian business tycoon
speed limits. Nobel Prize winner. tabla player and who founded the

music composer. Reliance Industries.
3. You will have to improve your (burden/diction/motive) if you want people
to understand what you are saying.

4. After the fight, neighbours became (hostile/polite/lazy) towards each
other.

5. The vitamins in fruits and vegetables are (beneficial/fatal/insufficient) to
your health.
4. Famous Indian film 5. Famous Indian Kathak 6. ‘Metro Man of India’.
6. A (rude/modest/aggressive) hero would never boasts of his achievements. maker. Won the Academy dancer who performs Made metro railway
Honorary Award and the world over. plan a success in
7. The coffin of my late aunt Ginny was lowered into the open (cave/grave/ Bharat Ratna in 1992. India.

mine).

8. Mobility refers to the ability to (talk/eat/move).
Kailash Satyarthi
9. Mom’s blue jug can hold (efficient/sufficient/ Zakir Hussain

ancient) milk to fill large glasses. Info-bites
Lexicography is the Dhirubhai Ambani
10. Have you decided which seashells to (divulge/ process of writing, Amartya Sen

emerge/exhibit) in the showcase? editing or compiling Satyajit Ray
a dictionary. An 7. Indian child right’s 8. Known as the ‘Father
author or editor of a advocate and activist of White Revolution Birju Maharaj
dictionary is called a against child labour. in India’. He turned Verghese Kurien
Lexicographer. Noah Won the Nobel Peace India into the world’s E.Sreedharan
Webster was a famous Prize for 2014. largest milk producer.
lexicographer. Find
out more about him.

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