Questions Identify A Word or Phrase Which Suggests The Same Idea As The Words Underlined
Questions Identify A Word or Phrase Which Suggests The Same Idea As The Words Underlined
Identify a word or phrase which suggests the same idea as the words underlined:
1. The gaze of the passengers is focused in one direction
………concentrated on one area……………………………………………….
2. She managed to stay alive from other passengers
…continue living…………………………………………………………..
3.The flowers were twisting themselves together
……tangling amongst each other ………………………………………………..
4.Several channels divided the junction
……………split…………………………………….............…………………..
5. There were low bushes in the garden
…………small shrubs…………………………………………………………..
6.The statue had a mysterious expression
…………strange …………………………………………………….......……..
Give a word or phrase that also means the same and can replace each of the following words as
used in the passage.
Now she sat in the half-empty bus. It jolted to a halt at every stop, but no one got in, nor did anyone
get off. She was caught up in its reckless rush as it butted stubbornly against the road curb, swung
around corners with wounded shriek, shaking its whole frame in a frenzy of movement, unthinking, self-
absorbed, down the straight roads past the housing estates.
7 jolted……jerked…………………………………………………………………..
8. reckless…careless……………………………………………………………..
9.shriek……screech…………………………………………………………………..
10. frame……structure…………………………………………………….