Characters of the story
1] Mable (मेबल ) – Protagonist
2] Mrs. Barnet (बार्नेट ) –Maid / servant
3] Clarissa Dalloway (क्लेरिसा डॅलोवे ) – host of the party
4] Rose Shaw – highly fashionable
5] Robert Haydon -guest
Serious - strong
Suspicion(a belief or idea that something may be true)
Cloak - a sleeveless outdoor over garment that hangs loosely from the shoulders.
Drawing an attention - pull or move an attention,
markedly - noticeably,
appliances - devices/साधने
Tidying (arrange neatly)
Complexion – skin/ the natural colour, texture, and appearance of a person's skin, especially of the face.
suspicion – doubt
springing (move or jump suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards:)
conviction (a firmly held belief or opinion:)
greeted – salute / give a polite word of recognition or sign of welcome when meeting
a shaded corner – dark corner
misery (a state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort:)
profound (very great/ intense/ deep)
dissatisfaction – discontent, frustration, resentment, regret (असमाधान)
inferior - (low or lower in position)
relentlessly - (in an unceasingly, intense or harsh way/ nonstop),
remorselessly - (pitiless, hard, harsh, cruel, without regret or guilt: निर्दयपणे, निष्ठुरपणे; कडवेपणाने.),
beat off - (fight off) ,
hideous (extremely ugly:)
appalling (bad, horrifying, shocking, terrible, alarming)
inadequacy (deficiency, inability to deal with a situation or with life:);
cowardice (lack of bravery:);
mean -(feeling/ offensive, selfish, or unaccommodating; nasty; malicious)
water-sprinkled blood - her blood is dilute / weak / thin / inadequate, etc.(not confident)
depressed – sad / distress उदास
dressmaker – dress designer / tailor
sordid (low quality,घटिया),
repulsive (lacking friendliness or sympathy)
shabby (in poor condition)
puffed up (out of breath:)
vanity (excessive pride)
unutterably - (too great or awful to describe)
paltry (very small ),
Exploded (having burst),
the moment she came into Mrs. Dalloway’s drawing-room.
absurd - (wildly unreasonable)
prettier (more beautiful) ,
more dignified (noble, उचा),
more womanly – suitable for woman
pluming (decorating with or as if with feathers)
very charming – attractive
orgy (party)
chastised (spend money/ scold, punish, शिक्षा, rebuke or reprimand severely),
rigged - (planned)
perfectly charming (very pleasant or attractive:)
satirical (mocking another's weaknesses)
pucker (fold)
precisely (exactly)
crawl (creep)
Spell - (words)
to annul (nullify/decrease)
agony(pain)
endurable (bearable).
Tags (add)
Numb (no physical sensation सुन्न:),
chill (cold/cool),
frozen(turn into ice),
dumb (गुंगा/ temporarily unable or unwilling to speak).
stuck (using power of )
strained (showing signs of nervous tension or tiredness:तणावपूर्ण) (standing in front of the looking- glass, listening to Rose Shaw)
hoist (rise)
meager (lack of qualityमामुली),
insignificant(too small or unimportant to be worth consideration तुच्छ),
toiling – working
fluttering(flying unsteadily),
skimming (the removal of a substance from the surface of a liquid:),
Envy and spite (ill feeling/ desire to hurt ),
detestable ( intense dislike घृणास्पद)
vices (wicked behaviour), were her chief faults.
dowdy (unfashionable and unstylish in appearance, बेस्वाद),
decrepit (डीक्रेपिट/ worn out or ruined जीर्ण),
horribly dingy (gloomy and drab:गंदा)
furbishing (give a fresh look to (something old or shabby))
a poor weak-kneed (weak and shaky as a result of fear or excitement)
detached (separate or disconnected.अलगढलग)
witty(funny),
insincere (इन्सिसिक्सिअर/false/artificial)
Do As directed (Grammar)
1] Mabel had her first serious suspicion. (Past Perfect tense)
Ans: Mabel had had her first serious suspicion
2] It was not right. (Make Affirmative)
Ans: It was wrong.
3] She could not beat off (Be unable to)
Ans: She was unable to beat off
4] What a fright she looks! (Assertive sentence)
Ans: She looks a very fright.
5] Their eyelids flickering as they came up. (No sooner – than)
Ans: No sooner did they come up than their eyelids flickering.
6] It was her own appalling inadequacy; her cowardice; her mean, water-sprinkled blood that depressed her. (Simple)
Ans: Her own appalling inadequacy; her cowardice; her mean, water-sprinkled blood depressed her.
7] She touched the letters on the hall table and said: “How dull!” (Indirect)
Ans: Touching the letters on the hall table, she exclaimed that it was very dull.
8] All this had been absolutely destroyed. (Begin with “They---“)
Ans: They had absolutely destroyed all this.
9] All this had been absolutely destroyed, the moment she came into Mrs. Dalloway’s drawing-room. (Hardly –when/ No sooner – than)
Ans: Hardly had she come into Mrs. Dalloway’s drawing-room when all this had been absolutely destroyed.
Ans: No sooner did she comeinto Mrs. Dalloway’s drawing-room than all this had been absolutely destroyed.
10] It was absurd to pretend it. (gerund)
Ans: It was absurd for pretending it.
11] She had taken that old fashion book of her mother’s, a Paris fashion book of the time of the Empire. (Present perfect tense)
Ans: She has taken that oldfashion book of her mother’s, a Paris fashion book of the time of the Empire.
12] She felt like a dressmaker’s dummy standing there, for young people to stick pins into. (Make Complex)
Ans: She felt like a dressmaker’s dummy that stood there, for young people to stick pins into.
13] We are all like flies trying to crawl over the edge of the saucer. (Use that)
Ans: We are all like flies that try to crawl over the edge of the saucer.
14] Now she could see flies crawling slowly out of a saucer of milk with their wings stuck together. (Use which)
Ans: Now she could see flies which crawl slowly out of a saucer of milk with their wings stuck together.
15] She strained and strained to make herself see Rose Shaw. (Not only------ but also)
Ans: She not only strainedbut also strained to make herself see Rose Shaw.
16) She was a fly, but the others were dragonflies. (Use – Though)
Ans: Though she was a fly, but the others were dragonflies.
17) The most detestable of the vices were her chief faults. (Change the degree)
Ans: Com: Her chief faults were more detestable than any other vices.
Posi: No other vices were as detestable as her chief faults.
18) “I feel like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old fly,” she said.(Reported Speech)
Ans: She said that she felt like some dowdy, decrepit, horribly dingy old fly.
19) She did not feel in the least out of anything. (Rhetorical Question)
Ans: Did she feel in the least out of anything?
20) She saw the truth. (Rewrite as a negative sentence without changing the meaning)
Ans: She didn’t see the false.
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