EVERY SUCCESS STORY IS ALSO
A STORY OF GREAT FAILURE
(COMPLETE MATERIAL FOR TS)
1-b Every Success Story Is Also Story Of Great Failure
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A) GLOSSARY: according to the context of “Every
Success Story is also Story of Great Failure"
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Word
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Parts
of speech
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Meaning
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nervous
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adj
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highly
excitable; unnaturally apprehensive
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quit
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verb
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to
give up or resign; let go; relinquish
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defeat
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verb
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to overcome in
a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish
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detour
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noun
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a roundabout or circuitous way or course, especially one used temporarilywhen the main route is closed
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dead-end
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noun
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something that has no exit
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charge
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verb
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to instruct authoritatively, as
a judge does a jury
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attorney
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noun
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a
lawyer
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fraudulent
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adj
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deceptive,
false
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humiliate
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verb
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to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify
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beat-up
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adj
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dilapidated;
in poor condition from use
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recipe
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noun
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a set of instructions for making or preparing something, especially a fooddish
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minister
(church)
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noun
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a person authorized to conduct religious worship; member of the clergy;pastor
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infest
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adj
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(of
insects or animals) be present (in a place or site) in large numbers,
typically so as to cause damage or disease
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inspired
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verb
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to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence
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bounceback
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noun
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the act or
an instance of bouncing back or recovering
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go
up
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verb
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to
be consumed by fire
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anew
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adv
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again
/ once more / over again
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attitude
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noun
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manner,
disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing;
tendency or orientation, especially of the mind
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altitude
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noun
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extent or distance upward; height
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broke
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adj
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lacking
money
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fire
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verb
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to
terminate an employment contract of an employee especially for cause of
misconduct or poor performance
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inevitable
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adj
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unable to
be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary
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setback
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noun
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a check to progress; a reverse or defeat
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humility
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noun
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the quality or condition of being humble; modest opinion or estimate of one'sown importance, rank, etc
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overcome
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verb
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to prevail over (opposition, a debility, temptations, etc); surmount
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stumbling
block
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noun
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an obstacle or hindrance to progress, belief, or understanding
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conceive
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verb
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to hold as
an opinion; think; believe
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gasp
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verb
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a
sudden, short intake of breath
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duck
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verb
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to
lower something into water
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turn
blue
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idiom
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oxynated
blood is drained i.e., needed oxygen
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cinch
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noun
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certain
to happen
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outclassed
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verb
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to surpass in excellence or quality, especially by
a wide margin; be superior
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short-cut
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noun
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a method, procedure, policy, etc., that reduces the
time or energy needed to accomplish something
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victor
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noun
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a winner in any struggle or contest
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victim
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noun
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a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency
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B-List of ANTONYMS and SYNONYMS according to the context of
"Every Success Story is also a Story of Great Failure"
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Word
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Parts of speech
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Synonym(s)
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Antonym(S)
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nervous
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adj
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fearful, timid, timorous
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confident, bold
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success
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noun
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achievement, triumph, accomplishment
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defeat, failure, forfeit
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lucky
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adj
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fortunate, opportune
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unlucky
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defeat
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verb
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overwhelm, overthrow, downfall
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fail, lose, surrender
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sweetheart
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noun
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girlfriend, boyfriend, companion
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enemy, foe
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quit
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verb
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abandon, leave, depart, drop, give up
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allow, begin, continue
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detour
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noun
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deviation, diversion
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inventor
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noun
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creator, founder, originator
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attorney
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noun
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lawyer, advocate, barrister, pleader
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humiliate
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verb
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embarrass, degrade, demean
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encourage, honour, respect
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invention
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noun
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discovery, coinage, design
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steal
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wisdom
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noun
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insight, common sense, foresight
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ignorance, imprudence
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beat up
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adj
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dilapidated, battered, broken-down, damaged,
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OK, good, healthy, repaired
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remember
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verb
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commemorate, recall, recognize, remind
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forget
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estimate
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verb
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guess, assess, evaluate, expect
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disregard, hesitate
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hard
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adj
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difficult, exhausting
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easy, facile
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talent
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noun
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ability, capability, capacity, skill
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ignorance,impotence, inability
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partially
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adv
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incompletely, moderately, partly
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completely, totally, wholly
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stupid
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adj
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dull, dumb, foolish, senseless
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bright, intelligent, sharp, smart, wise, thoughtful
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reverse
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noun
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opposite, reversal
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front, same
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appear
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verb
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arrive, come out
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disappear, abandon, conceal, depart, hide
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fire
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verb
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dismiss, discharge, expel
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employ, hire
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inevitable
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adj
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imminent, necessary
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avoidable, escapable
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humility
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noun
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humbleness, modesty
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arrogance
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grief
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noun
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agony, anguish, despair, gloom, misery, mourning, woe, worry,
sorrow
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blessing, comfort, contentment, peace, pleasure, relief
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courage
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noun
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boldness, braveness, bravery
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cowardice, fear, humility
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faith
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noun
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belief, conviction
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disbelief, doubt
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victor
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noun
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champ, champion, conqueror, winner
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loser
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victim
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noun
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suffere, casuality, martyr
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criminal, culprit
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desire
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noun
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ambition, fascination, wish
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apathy, disgust
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purpose
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noun
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intention, meaning, aim, ambition, goal, target
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conceive
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verb
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understand, assume, believe, perceive
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neglect
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achieve
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verb
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accomplish, complete, attain
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fail, lose, surrender
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secret
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adj
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covert, private, hidden, unrevealed
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apparent, open, public, revealed
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surprize
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noun
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amazement, astonishment, awe, bewilderment, miracle, shock,
wonder
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calmness, expectation
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reply
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verb
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acknowledge, react, respond, retort
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question, request
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want
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verb
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desire, need, require, wish
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dislike, not want
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starting
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noun
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opening, origin, outset
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conclusion, end
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accomplishment
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noun
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achievement, triumph
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failure, forfeit
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produce
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verb
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generate, create, form, invent, yield
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demolish, destroy
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outclass
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verb
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surpass, beat, excel
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fail, lose, surrender
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C) Let’s understand through Graphic Organizer(s)
D) Comprehension Questions:
Note: Read the
passage, ‘Every Success Story is also Story of Great Failure in your text book
and answer the following questions in about two sentences in your notebook.
(Try and discuss with your friends)
1.
“If you want to succeed, double your
failure.” Do you agree? Why?
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2.
What would you find if you study history?
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3.
People see only one side of the picture.
Which side do they see?
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4.
What do the people say about a successful
person?
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5.
Do you call Abraham Lincoln a failure? Why?
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6.
What is the invention of Lee De Forest?
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7.
Why the district attorney charged Forest?
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8.
Who questioned the right brothers’ wisdom?
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9.
Where did the famous flight take off?
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10. Who
invented triodes tube?
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11. After
how many tries do you quit?
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12. What
was the disability of Thomas Edison?
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13. Henry
Ford forgot something while his first car installation. What was that?
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14. All
success stories are stories of great failures. Do you agree? Why?
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15. Who
invented phonograph?
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16. A
burning desire is the starting point of all accomplishment. Do you agree? How?
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17. According
to Socrates what is the secret to success?
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18. Who
inspired Disney?
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19. What
do you do when you fail?
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20. What
have you learnt by the poem, ‘If you think?’
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E)
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR: (Qn. 13-17 Editing)
Note:
(Paper – 1 Questions 13-17) Read the passage given below. Five sentences in the
passage are numbered 13 to 17 at the beginning. Each of these sentences has an
error. Correct them and re-write the sentences. (Try and discuss with your
friends)
Exercise
1:
13) Failure is the highway success. Tom Watson
Sr. said, “If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.”
14) If you study history, you will find that all
stories of success is also stories of great failures. 15) But people doesn’t
see the failures. 16) They only see one side of the picture they and say that
person got lucky: 17) “He must have be at the right place at the right time.”
13. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
14. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
15. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
16. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
17. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Exercise
2:
This man was Abraham Lincoln. 13) Would you called him a failure? He could have
quit. 14) But to Lincoln, defeat was an detour and not a dead end.
In 1913, Lee De Forest, the inventor of the
triodes tube, was charged by the district attorney for using fraudulent means
to mislead the public into buying stocks of his company by claiming that he
could transmit the human voice across the Atlantic. 15) He was public
humiliated. 16) Can you imagine where would we be without his invention?
New York Times editorial on December 10, 1903,
questioned the wisdom of the Wright Brothers who were trying to invent a
machine, heavier than air, that would fly.17) One week later, at Kitty Hawk,
the Wright Brothers taken their famous flight.
13. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
14. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
15. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
16. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
17. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Exercise
3:
13) Colonel Sanders, at age 65, with a beat-up
car and a $100 cheque from social security, realized he had to does something.
14)
He remember his mother's recipe and went out selling. 15) How many doors he did
have to knock on before he got his first order? 16) It is estimated that he had
knocked on more then a thousand doors before he got his first order. 17) How much
of us quit after three tries, ten tries, a hundred tries, and then we say we
tried as hard as we could?
13. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
14. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
15. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
16. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
17. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Exercise
4:
13) As a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many
rejections from newspaper editors, which said he had no talent. 14) One day a
minister at a church hired him draw to some cartoons. 15) Disney was work out
of a small mouse infested shed near the church. 16) After seeing a small mice,
he was inspired. 16) That were the start of Mickey Mouse. 17) Success people don't do great things; they
only do small things in a great way.
13. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
14. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
15. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
16. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
17. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Exercise
4:
13) One day a partially deaf four year old kid
came home a note in his pocket from his teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid
to learn, get him out of the school." 14) His mother read the note and
answered, "My Tommy is not stupid to learn, I teach will him myself."
And that Tommy grew up to be the great Thomas Edison. 15) Thomas Edison had
only three months of formal schooling but he was partially deaf.
16) Henry Ford forgot to put the reverse gear in
the first car he make. 17) Do
you consider this people failures? They succeeded in spite of problems, not in
the absence of them. But to the outside world, it appears as though they just
got lucky.
13. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
14. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
15. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
16. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
17. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Exercise
5:
13) All success stories are stories of failures
great. The only difference is that every time they failed, they bounced back. 14)
This is call failing forward, rather than backward. You learn and move forward.
Learn from your failure and keep moving.
15) On 1914, Thomas Edison, at age 67, lost his
factory, which was worth a few million dollars, on fire. It had very little
insurance. No longer a young man, Edison watched his lifetime effort go up in
smoke and said, "There is great value in disaster. 16) All our mistake are
burnt up. Thank God we can start anew." In spite of the disaster, three
weeks later, he invented the phonograph. 17) What a attitude!
13. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
14. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
15. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
16. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
17. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Exercise
6:
Setbacks are inevitable in life. 13) A setback
can may act as a driving force and also teach us humility. 14) In grief you
will find courage but faith to overcome the setback. 15) We need to learn
become to victors, not victims. Fear and doubt short-circuit the mind.
Ask yourself after every setback: 16) What did I
learnt from this experience? 17) Only then you will be able to turn an
stumbling block into a stepping stone.
The motivation to succeed comes from the burning
desire to achieve a purpose. Napoleon Hill wrote, "Whatever the mind of
man can conceive and believe the mind can achieve."
13. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
14. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
15. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
16. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
17. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Exercise
7:
13) A young man asked Socrates the secret to
successful. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the river the next
morning. 14) They meets. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him towards
the river. 15) Which the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young
man by surprise and ducked him into the water. 16) The boy struggled to out get
but Socrates was strong and kept him there until the boy
started turning blue. Socrates pulled his head out of the water and the first
thing the young man did was to gasp and take a deep breath of air. Socrates
asked, “What did you want the most when you were there?” The boy replied,
"Air." Socrates said, “That is the secret to success. When you want
success as badly as you wanted the air, then you will get it. 17) There is no
other secrets”.
13. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
14. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
15. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
16. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
17. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….
F)
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR: (qn. 18-22 Cloze test)
Note:
(Paper – 1 Questions 18-22) Complete the following passage choosing the right
words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer
booklet. (Try and discuss with your
friends)
Exercise-1:
double people successful place find success found
Failure is the highway to ………. (18). Tom
Watson Sr. said, “If you want to succeed, ……….. (19) your failure rate.” If you study history, you will …….. (20) that all
stories of success are also stories of great failures. But …………. (21) don’t see
the failures. They only see one side of the picture and they say that person
got lucky: “He must have been at the right ………. (22) at the right time.”
18. ……….
19. ……….
20. ……….
21. ……….
22. ……….
Exercise-2:
defeated
thought sweetheart business senatorial failed history
Let me share someone’s life …………. (18) with
you. This was a man who ………. (19) in
business at the age of 21; was ………… (20) in a legislative race at age 22;
failed again in business at age 24; overcame the death of his ………… (21) at age
26; had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional race at age 34;
lost a ………… (22) race at age 45; failed in an effort to become vice-president
at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was elected president of the
United States at age 52. This man was Abraham Lincoln.
18. ……….
19. ……….
20. ……….
21. ……….
22. ……….
Exercise-3:
transmit
publicly invented triodes imagined mislead inventor
In 1913, Lee De Forest, the ……… (18) of
the …….. (19) tube, was charged by the district attorney for using fraudulent
means to ………… (20) the public into buying stocks of his company by claiming
that he could ……… (21) the human voice across the Atlantic. He was ………. (22) humiliated.
Can you imagine where we would be without his invention?
18. ……….
19. ……….
20. ……….
21. ……….
22. ……….
Exercise-4:
knock three shot thousand congratulated estimated recipe
He remembered his mother's ……….. (18) and
went out selling. How many doors did he have to ……….. (19) on before he got his
first order? It is ……… (20) that he had knocked on more than a ………… (21) doors
before he got his first order. How many of us quit after ……… (22) tries, ten
tries, a hundred tries, and then we say we tried as hard as we could?
18. ……….
19. ……….
20. ……….
21. ……….
22. ……….
Exercise-5:
faced working who hired when painter cartoonist
As a young………. (18), Walt Disney ………..
(19) many rejections from newspaper editors, …….. (20) said he had no talent.
One day a minister at a church ……… (21) him to draw some cartoons. Disney was ………
(22) out of a small mouse infested shed near the church. After seeing a small
mouse, he was inspired. That was the start of Mickey Mouse. Successful people
don't do great things; they only do small things in a great way.
18. ……….
19. ……….
20. ……….
21. ……….
22. ……….
Exercise-6:
teach doctor mother blind came teacher deaf
One day a partially ………….. (18) four year
old kid ……… (19) home with a note in his pocket from his……. (20) , "Your
Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the school." His ………. (21) read
the note and answered, "My Tommy is not stupid to learn, I will …. (22) him
myself." And that Tommy grew up to be the great Thomas Edison. Thomas
Edison had only three months of formal schooling and he was partially deaf.
18. ……….
19. ……….
20. ……….
21. ……….
22. ……….
Exercise-7:
little few
worth bounced running moving difference
All success stories are stories of great
failures. The only ……….. (18) is that every time they failed, they ………. (19) back.
This is called failing forward, rather than backward. You learn and move
forward. Learn from your failure and keep………. (20). In 1914, Thomas Edison, at
age 67, lost his factory, which was ……… (21) a few million dollars, on fire. It
had very ………… (22) insurance. No longer a young man, Edison watched his
lifetime effort go up in smoke and said, "There is great value in
disaster.
18. ……….
19. ……….
20. ……….
21. ……….
22. ……….
Exercise-8:
wrote conceive runs achieve draw motivation comes
The ……… (18) to succeed ……… (19) from the
burning desire to …… (20) a purpose. Napoleon Hill………. (21) , "Whatever
the mind of man can ………. (22) and believe the mind can achieve."
18. ……….
19. ……….
20. ……….
21. ……….
22. ……….
Exercise-9:
into towards successful secret reason river strong
A young man asked Socrates the ……….. (18) to
success. Socrates told the young man to meet him near the ………. (19) the next
morning. They met. Socrates asked the young man to walk with him ……. (20) the
river. When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by
surprise and ducked him ……….. (21) the water. The boy struggled to get out but
Socrates was ……. (22) and kept him there until the boy started turning blue.
Socrates pulled his head out of the water and the first thing the young man did
was to gasp and take a deep breath of air.
18. ……….
19. ……….
20. ……….
21. ……….
22. ……….
G)
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR: (qn. 23-27 Rewrite as directed)
Note: (Paper – 1 Questions 23-27) Some
words or phrases in the given passage are underlined. Rewrite them as directed
in your answer booklet. (Try and discuss
with your friends)
Exercise 1:
Failure
is the highway to success (23). Tom Watson Sr. said, “If you want
to succeed, double your failure rate.” If you study history, you will find that
all stories (24) of success are also stories of great failures.
But people don’t see the failures. They only see one side of the picture and
they say that person got luckily (25): “He must have been at the
right place at the right time.”
Let
me share someone’s live (26) history with you. This was a man who
failed in business at the age of 21; was defeated in a legislative race
(27) at age 22; failed again in business at age 24; overcame the death of his
sweetheart at age 26; had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a congressional
race at age 34; lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an effort to become
vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was elected
president of the United States at age 52.
23. Write the antonym
for the word underlined.
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24. Write a synonym
for the word underlined.
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25. Replace the word
with correct form of the word.
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26. Replace the word
with right form of the word.
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27. Write the meaning
of the word underlined.
……………………………………………………………………………………………
Exercise 2:
In
1913, Lee De Forest, the inventor (23) of the triodes tube, was
charged by the district attorney for using fraudulent means to mislead the
public into buying stocks of his company by claiming that he could transmission
(24) the human voice across the Atlantic. He was publicly humiliated
(25). Can you imagine where we would be without his invention?
New York Times editorial in (26)
December 10, 1903, questioned the wisdom of the Wright Brothers who were trying
to invent a machine, heavier than air that would fly. One week later, at Kitty
Hawk, the Wright Brothers take (27) their famous flight.
23. Write the meaning
of the word underlined.
……………………………………………………………………………………………
24. Replace the word
with right form of the word.
……………………………………………………………………………………………
25. Write the synonym
of the underlined word.
……………………………………………………………………………………………
26. Replace the word
with correct preposition.
……………………………………………………………………………………………
27. Replace with
suitable form of the underlined word.
……………………………………………………………………………………………
Exercise 3:
He
remembered his mother's recipe (23) and went out selling. How
many doors did he have to knock on before he got his first order? It is estimation
(24) that he had knocked on more than a thousand doors before he got his first
order. How many of us quit (25) after three tries, ten tries, a
hundred tries, and then we say we tried as hard as we could?
As
a young cartoonist, Walt Disney faced many rejections from newspaper editors,
who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw
some cartoons. Disney was working out of a small mice (26)
infested shed near the church. After seeing a small mouse, he was inspired.
That was the end (27) of Mickey Mouse.
23. Write the meaning
of the word underlined.
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24. Replace the word
with right form of the word.
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25. Write the synonym
of the underlined word.
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26. Replace the word
with suitable one.
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27. Replace the
underlined word with its antonym.
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Exercise 4:
One
day a partially (23) deaf four year old kid came home with a note
in his pocket from his teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get
him out of the school." His mother read the note and answered
(24), "My Tommy is not stupid to learn. I will teach him myself." And
that Tommy grew up to be the great Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only three
months of formal schooling (25) and he was partially deaf.
Henry
Ford forgot to put the reverse gear in the first car he make (26).
Do you consider these people (27) failures? They succeeded in
spite of problems, not in the absence of them. But to the outside world, it
appears as though they just got lucky.
23. Write the opposite
word of the underlined.
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24. Write a synonym of
the underlined word..
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25. Write the meaning
of the underlined phrase.
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26. Replace the word
with right form of it.
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27. Write the singular
form of the word underlined.
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Exercise 5:
Setbacks (23) are
inevitable in life. A setback can act as a driving force and also teach us
humility. In grief you will find courageous (24) and faith to
overcome the setback. We need to learn to become victors (25),
not victims. Fear and doubt short-circuit the mind.
Ask
yourself after every setback: What did I learn from this experience? Only then
you will be able to turn a stumbling block into a step (26)
stone.
The
motivation to succeed comes from the burning desire to achieve a purpose.
Napoleon Hill wrote, "Whatever the mind of man can conceive
(27) and believe the mind can achieve."
23. Write the meaning
of the underlined word.
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24. Replace the word
with right form of it.
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25. Write the antonym
of the underlined word.
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26. Replace the word
with correct form of it.
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27. Write a synonym of
the word underlined.
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