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Flamingo Prose CH 8 Going Places — ENGLISH STD 12 Commerce — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 12 CommerceENGLISHFlamingo Prose CH 8 Going Places5 Marks
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(suspected, never, jealous, voluntarily, fascination, blacked, tightening, silence, apprentice, cluttered)
The evening had already _______ in the windows and the small room was steamy from the stove and _______ with the heavy-breathing man in his vest at the table and the dirty washing piled up in the corner. Sophie felt a ________in her throat. She went to look for her brother Geoff. He was kneeling on the floor in the next room tinkering with a part of his motorcycle over some newspaper spread on the carpet. He was three years out o-f school, an_______ mechanic, travelling to his work each day to the far side of the city He was almost grown up now, and she _______ areas of his life about which she knew nothing, about which he never spoke. He said little at all, ever, _____. Words had to be prized out of him like stones out of the ground. And she was _______of his ______. When he wasn’t speaking it was as though he was away somewhere, out there in the world in those places she had ______ been. Whether they were only the outlying districts of the city or places beyond in the surrounding country - who knew? - They attained a special _______ simply because they were unknown to her and remained out of her reach.
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blacked, cluttered, tightening, apprentice, suspected, voluntarily, jealous, silence, never, fascination

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