Class 6 NCERT A Pact with the Sun Book Chapter wise difficult word meanings
Here, the difficult words and their meanings of all the Chapters of CBSE Class 6 English A Pact with the Sun book have been compiled for the convenience of the students. This is an exhaustive list of the difficult words and meanings of all the Chapters from the A Pact with the Sun book for NCERT Class 6 English. The difficult words’ meanings have been explained in an easy language so that every student can understand them easily.
- Chapter 1 A Tale Of Two Birds
- Chapter 2 The Friendly Mongoose
- Chapter 3 The Shepherd’s Treasure
- Chapter 4 The Old-Clock Shop
- Chapter 5 Tansen
- Chapter 6 The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Chapter 7 The Wonder Called Sleep
- Chapter 8 A Pact With The Sun
- Chapter 9 What Happened To The Reptiles
- Chapter 10 A Strange Wrestling Match
Chapter 1 A Tale Of Two Birds
- Alike: similar, identical
- Amazed: surprised
- Blew down: to make fall
- Comfortable: suitable, to be at ease
- Fortunately: luckily, happily, by good luck
- Hunt: to chase and try to catch and kill, to pursue
- Imitates: copies
- Robbers: Person who commits robbery, a thief, a burglar
- Welcome: to greet
Chapter 2 The Friendly Mongoose
- Cradle: a small bed for a baby
- Frankly: honestly
- Rocked: to move or sway from one side to another
Chapter 3 The Shepherd’s Treasure
- Astonished: wondered
- Cloaks: a kind of clothing
- Compliment: an expression of appreciation
- Cottage: a small house
- Delight: joy
- Discovered: found
- Disguised: an appearance that hides the actual form
- Embarrassed: feeling of shame and awkwardness
- Fastened: fixed or tied
- Hospitality: act of being friendly and warm reception
- Humble: not proud but modest
- Indeed: in reality
- Meagre: inadequate, quite less in amount
- Mockingly: making fun of
- Mule: an offspring of a male ass and a female horse
- Ordinary: common
- Pleased: happy
- Provinces: States
- Shepherd: Person who takes care of the sheep
- Summoned: called
Chapter 4 The Old-Clock Shop
- Pawnbroker- a person who lends money on interest with security of the article pawned
Chapter 5 Tansen
- Disciples.: pupils
- Frighten: scare
- Grove: a group of trees planted together
- Impressed: to cause someone admire deeply
- Insist: to say something firmly and forcefully
- Legend: a person who is admired for his abilities
- Punish: to hurt a wrongdoer
- Rejoice: to feel happy
- Talented: skilled
Chapter 6 The Monkey and the Crocodile
- Dilemma: to be or not to be situation where one has to make a difficult choice
- Hatched: process of emergence of young baby from an egg
- Pester: to irritate someone by asking something repeatedly
Chapter 7 The Wonder Called Sleep
- Alert – quick to notice and react to something unusual
- Fatigue- tiredness
- Great deal – a lot of
- Reveal- disclose, tell
- Unconscious- not awake and aware
- Unfathomable – here, very deep that it cannot be measured
- Winding- a twisting path
Chapter 8 A Pact With The Sun
- Bolsters: pillows
- Dingy: dark and dirty
- Hovel: a small dirty place
- Persuaded: to move someone to believe something by arguing
- Relented: to get soften in feelings
- Trinkets: piece of jewellery
Chapter 9 What Happened To The Reptiles
- Anxiously: curiously
- Cliff: a pointed high-end point of a rock
- Giant: very big
- Grab: to hold, to catch
- Nastier: unclean
- Slimy: unpleasant
- Somersaults: physical exercise, movement
- Squeaky: making a very high sound
- Straggling: to move and spread in a very shabby manner
- Venom: poison
- Wriggled; to move body in small quick movement
Chapter 10 A Strange Wrestling Match
- Apprehension: suspicion or fear about some future happening
- Awkward: to cause worry or problem
- Boasting: to speak too proudly about one’s belongings and accomplishments
- Eccentricities: strange behaviors
- Haunted: place visited by ghosts
- Landmark: place or building that can be easily recognised
- Marshalling: reordering
- Murmurs: to speak in a low voice, whispers
- Nonchalantly: to behave in a calm manner that shows disinterest
- peered into; To look at carefully to search something
- Proclaimed: to announce something publicly
- Size up: to guess
- Stout: fat and solid
- Taken aback: surprised
- Thrust: to push forcefully
- Wilderness: an area which is not inhabited by human beings
- Wrestler: a person who fights with others as a part of game or sport