Class 7 NCERT Honeycomb book Chapter Wise difficult word meanings
Here, the difficult words and their meanings of all the Chapters of CBSE Class 7 English Honeycomb 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 Honeycomb Book for NCERT Class 7 English. The difficult words’ meanings have been explained in an easy language so that every student can understand them easily.
- Chapter 1 Three Questions
- Chapter 2 A Gift of Chappals
- Chapter 3 Gopal and the Hilsa-fish
- Chapter 4 The Ashes That Made Trees Bloom
- Chapter 5 Quality
- Chapter 6 Expert Detectives
- Chapter 7 The Invention of Vita-Wonk
- Chapter 8 Fire: Friend and Foe
- Chapter 9 A Bicycle in Good Repair
- Chapter 10 The Story of Cricket
Chapter 1 Three Questions
- Advice – suggestion, guidance, help (He decided to seek the guidance of a certain hermit.)
- Affairs – things, matters, business (What matters are the most important?)
- Alone – only (The most important business is to do that person good, because we were sent into this world for that purpose only.)
- Avoid – to stop oneself from doing something, to keep away from someone or something (The king should notice all that was going on and keep away from foolish pleasures.)
- Awake – not sleeping, the state of being alert and not asleep
- Bearded (adjective) – a person who has a beard
- Beds – small patches of ground for plants
- Begin – to start (What is the right time to start something?)
- Certain – (here, the meaning is not the same as before) particular, specific (He decided to seek the advice of a particular hermit.)
- Certain – here, it means a particular or specific king.
- Council – a group of people chosen to make rules or to give advice (The king needed a group of wise men.)
- Councillors – people of the council, members of the council (Some said that the people most necessary to the king were his members of the council.)
- Differently – dissimilarly, contrastingly (Many wise men came, but they all answered him dissimilarly.)
- Fainted – lost consciousness (When he reached the king he lost consciousness.)
- Faithful – loyal and true
- Foolish – unwise, pointless (The king should avoid pointless pleasures.)
- Heavily – here, it means slowly and loudly (As the hermit worked, he breathed slowly and loudly.)
- Hermit – a person who lives alone and leads a simple life. (The king decided to seek the advice of a man who lives alone and leads a simple life.)
- Impossible – something which does not seem possible.
- Known – to be famous, popular (The hermit was widely famous for his wisdom.)
- Messengers – people who spread messages or transmit a message from one person to another person.
- Moment – second, time (The most necessary person is the person you are with at a particular time.)
- Necessary – essential, important (The most important person is the person you are with at a particular moment.)
- Ordinary – Simple, plain, not too fashionable (The king put on plain clothes)
- Peace – the state of friendship and harmony, no conflict, war or any type of violence
- Pitied – felt sorry (If you had not felt sorry for my weakness yesterday, you wuld have gone away.
- Pleasures – luxuries, enjoyment, satisfaction (The king should avoid foolish luxuries.)
- Purpose – reason, point, aim (The most important business is to do that person good, because we were sent into this world for that reason alone.)
- Recognised – to remember someone
- Re-dressed – dressed again (The king dressed the wound again.)
- Revenge – a wish to injure someone who injured you in the past
- Satisfied – to be happy, enjoyed, filled with contentment (The king was not happy and gave no reward.)
- Seek – to look for, to search for (He decided to search for a certain hermit and his advice.)
- Seemed – appeared, looked (The king should always do whatever looked necessary at that time.)
- Seized – took by force (You put my brother to death and took my property by force.)
- Several – two or more (When he awoke, it was two or more minutes before he could remember everything.)
- Simple – Here, it means uncomplicated, innocent (The hermit saw only innocent people.)
- Sowing – planting
- Spade – a tool with a sharp-edged used for digging.
- Stretching – straightening or extending one’s body or a part of one’s body to its full length, typically so as to tighten one’s muscles or in order to reach something.
- Strictly – obediently and resolutely, diligently (Some said that the king must prepare a timetable, and then follow it obediently and resolutely.)
- Stuck – push a sharp or pointed object into or through something.
- Sum – quantity or volume (the king sent messengers throughout the kingdom promising a large quantity of money.)
- Swore – promised, vowed
- Throughout – all over a particular place (the king, therefore, sent messengers all over his kingdom.)
- Urgent – important, emergency matters (Others said that there were some things which could be of emergency.)
- Widely – largely, on a big scale (The hermit was largely known for his wisdom.)
- Wise – someone who has a better judgement, experience and great intelligence.
- Wood – a small forest (The hermit lived in a small forest.)
- Wound – injury, cut
Chapter 2 A Gift of Chappals
- Alarmed: shocked, frightened
- Alms: money, clothes or food given to poor people
- Ancient: old
- Apparently: obviously
- Awkwardly: weirdly
- Backyard: the garden behind the house
- Bastet: an Egytian goddess
- Beamed: smile proudly
- Beneath: under
- Beringed: The music master is wearing a ring.
- Betel-chewing: a type of smokeless tobacco
- Blisters: boils/ bubbles on the skin, from burns or rubbing
- Blubbering: crying uncontrollably
- Bony: skeleton-like
- Booming: echoing
- Bowstring: a stick-like piece of equipment which is used to play the violin
- Brashly: shamelessly
- Chatting: talking, gossiping
- Choked: filled with feelings which were making him sound choked
- Clattered off: gone off noisily (with the noise or clatter of chappals)
- Concentration: focus
- Creature: living being
- Crept: moved slowly and noiselessly
- Crouching: being in a position in which your knees are bent and your upper body is bending downwards, this position is used to search for something lost
- Curiously: eagerly
- Demanded: asked in a stern way
- Derailing: causing a train to come off a railway track
- Descended from: a descendent of, or comes from, the same family
- Effortlessly: without any effort
- Expectantly: confidently, with an expected look
- Eyes filling: with tears
- Fed up: tired and unhappy
- Feeble: weak
- Feed: give food to
- Fine: excellent, rare
- Flashed: shone brightly in anger
- Float: go up slowly in the air
- Flourished: waved
- Flung: threw
- Frightened out of his wits: very scared
- Fringe: the part of your hair that is cut so that it hangs over your forehead
- Frying: cooking in heat
- Gazed: to look at something for a long time
- Generosity: the quality of being generous or giving
- Giggled: laughed lightly and repeatedly in a silly way
- Glanced: took a quick look at something
- Glazed: filled
- Gleamed: shone, sparkled
- Glided: moved along smoothly
- Glittered: sparkled
- Grimly: in a very serious manner
- Groaned: a deep sound which indicates despair
- Grunted: made a short, low sound in the throat
- Harassed: troubled with anxiety
- Helpless: something which cannot be helped
- Howled: roared in pain
- Impressed: felt or showed admiration
- Incarnate: a god taking a form of a human
- Invisible: something is not visible
- Jutting: sticking out further than the surrounding surface
- Kept my body and soul together: managed to stay alive
- Lapping: licking
- Leathery: tough, flexible
- Lit up: filled with happiness
- Lurking: waiting quietly (without attracting attention)
- Miserably: sadly
- Nodded: shook his head in agreement
- Noise: unpleasant sound
- Odd-looking: strange-looking
- Off track: outside the railway track
- Paati: grandmother (in Tamil)
- Pleased: happy, delighted
- Protested: complain, retort
- Rushed: said urgently or hurriedly
- Scrawny: thin (suggesting skinny toes)
- Scurried: moved hurriedly
- Scurried: ran
- Settle: fit, go into place
- Shabby-looking: messy or dirty looking
- Sharpening: making something sharp and pointy
- Shrieked: screamed
- Snapped: scolded
- Snooze: short sleep
- Sparkling: shining
- Squawk: kreech, high-pitched noise
- Startled: to move or jump up in fright or alarm
- Sternly: strictly, sharply
- Stowaway: someone who hides himself/ herself in a ship or an aircraft to travel unnoticed
- Stumbled: followed haltingly
- Sturdy: steady
- Tar: a substance which is used to construct roads
- Thatha: grandfather (in Tamil)
- Throw her off the scent: mislead her so that she won’t understand the real purpose
- Tiffin: food
- Tipped: put
- Tuft: a small amount of hair growing together
- Tumbler: a glass which has no handles
- Unappreciative: disapproving
- Upsetting: disappointing
- Vendors: shopkeepers
- Verandah: porch
- Veshti: dhoti (in Tamil)
- Wail: cry
- Wearily: tirily, exhaustedly
- Weird: strange or unusual
- Whizzing: moving very quickly, often making a high continuous sound
- Withered: something which was weak and dead-like
Chapter 3 Gopal and the Hilsa-fish
- Comical: funny, cartoon-like
- Disgraceful: shameful
- Downcast: disheartened
- Fishmonger: a person who sell fish
- Householder: the head of the house
- Mystic: a person who believes in supernatural and spiritual truths which are beyond the intellect
- Rags: shabby, torn and worn-out clothes
- Ridiculous: silly
- Smearing: spreading on a surface
Chapter 4 The Ashes That Made Trees Bloom
- A being with a soul: like a human child (showing emotion)
- A particle: even a little bit
- Bare: not covered
- Blaze: flame
- Carcass: dead body
- Coaxed: persuaded; enticed
- Competent: skilful
- Covetous: greedy
- Crone: old woman (old man’s wife)
- Custom: prevailing tradition
- Daimios: (in 19th century Japan) wealthy landowners
- Dainties: tasty food
- Dame: the woman of the household
- Envious: jealous
- Flung: threw
- Gleamed: shone/ glittered
- Green: healthy, active and prosperous
- Humbly: politely
- Impertinence: rudeness, lack of manners
- Lively: energetic
- Mighty: huge
- Mortar: bowl
- Motioning: pointing
- Mourning: the expression of sorrow for someone’s death
- On purpose: intentionally
- Palanquin: royal van/ cart
- Plentifully: very much
- Pomp: pride
- Pounding: crushing; grinding
- Prostrate: lying on the ground face downward
- Seized: caught
- Smothered: suffocated
- Snug: comfortable
- Sod: the surface of the ground, with the grass growing on it
- Soundly: a lot
- Spinning: becoming dizzy
- Stingy: miserly
- Tidbits: small pieces
- Train: procession
- Tumbled: threw
- Turned up their noses: treated him with contempt
- Turned up: dug up on
- Wayside: edge of the road
- Whining: making high-pitched voices
- Withered: bare and dry
- Wonder: things which cannot be explained why or how they happened
Chapter 5 Quality
- Absent-mindedly: not paying attention
- Aged: old
- By street: side street
- Circumstances: conditions
- Contempt: disrespect
- Distinction: difference
- Disturbed: alarmed, shocked
- Fashionable: famous or trendy
- Firms: companies
- Flowery: overelaborate
- Genuinely: really
- Given up: thought they would never come
- Grave: sad
- Guttural: harsh and grating
- Hardships: the hard times
- Hunting: searching
- Ill-omened: something which gave bad luck
- Incense: The smell of leather is compared to the smell of incense in a church.
- Lasted terribly: lasted very long
- Lined: having wrinkles
- Long: prolonged
- Peered: looked closely and carefully
- Pinched: stressed
- Qualify: modify
- Quiet: small
- Remarks: comments
- Slack: break, relax
- Splendidly: perfectly
- Wan: weak
- Withdraw: take back
- Youthful: young
Chapter 6 Expert Detectives
- Accompanied: came together
- Accomplice: a helper in crime
- Afford: have enough money to do something
- Alias: an alternate name
- Asaf: someone who is clumsy or unintelligent, fool
- Blinding: so bright that it was blocking the vision
- Bribing: giving someone money in exchange of the person doing a favour
- By appointment to: officially chosen (by someone important)
- Crook: criminal (informal)
- Doubtful: suspicious, disbelieving
- Expenses: the cost incurred in or required for something.
- Firmly: strictly, confidently
- Following: coming after
- Fury: rage
- Gaunt: sickly
- Impression: impact
- Loot: stolen money
- Merely: just, only
- Nasty: harsh, unfriendly
- Ordinary: normal
- Particular: specific, picky
- Patting: touching quickly and gently
- Peek: look quickly and secretively
- Pleased: delighted
- Protested: retorted
- Rubbish: nonsense
- Seven: nickname for Nishad because Nishad is the seventh note on the musical scale)
- Shootout: a fight in which guns are used to take down the enemy
- Sort out: arrange systematically
- Stashed away: hidden away
- Stout: fat, plumpy, chubby
- Tenant: a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord.
- Thrust: shoved, pushed violently and in a specific direction
- Tips well: gives a generous tip (money in thanks for services)
- Unsure: doubtful
Chapter 7 The Invention of Vita-Wonk
- Bubbling: making bubbles
- Create: make
- Dendrochronologist: a person who studies the scientific method of dating tree rings to the exact year they were formed.
- Fantastic: awesome, amazing
- Fir: a tree with needlelike leaves, and cones
- Flea: a small insect living on the skin of animals, for their blood
- Oak: a family of large trees with a hard wood. The Chinar in Kashmir is a kind of oak tree. cedar: an evergreen tree with hard, red sweet-smelling wood, used for making boxes, pencils, fences, etc.
- Ounce: a unit of measurement
- Pine: an evergreen tree with needle shaped leaves, and cones
- Recipe: instructions for making something
- Set to work: began to work
- Shrivelling: wrinkling and contracting or causing wrinkles and contract, especially due to loss of moisture.
- Squeezed: press firmly
- Tracked down: found, by searching for it
- Volunteer: someone who agrees to take part in something. The person is usually someone who is watching from the sidelines and is a part of the crowd.
- Wrinkling: making or causing lines or folds in (something, especially fabric or the skin).
- Yards: a unit of measurement
Chapter 8 Fire: Friend and Foe
- Add fuel to the flames (idiom): say or do something that makes people react more strongly and Fiercely
- Bands: groups
- Blaze: intensely burning fire
- Cope: deal with; manage
- Damp: slightly wet
- Equipment: things needed
- Extinguish: put out
- Generate: produce
- Gradually: slowly, eventually, finally
- Puzzled: confused
- Released: given out
- smothered: suffocated (from lack of air)
- Smouldering: burning slowly without flame
Chapter 9 A Bicycle in Good Repair
- Ass: idiot
- Balls: ball-bearings
- Bearings: ball-bearings
- Cheery: cheerful
- Confess: admit
- Degenerated into: were reduced to
- Disposition: nature
- Dissuade: disappear
- Fascinates: attracts, makes someone interested
- Fork: each of a pair of supports in which a bicycle or motorcycle wheel revolves.
- Gravel: a loose aggregation of small water-worn or pounded stones
- Grovelled: crawled on the ground
- Inexplicable: that can’t be explained; mysterious
- Knack: special skill, talent
- Lunatic: mad person
- Muddle: mix up things
- Proceedings: happenings
- Proposed: suggested
- Providence: here, God
- Ravages: damages
- Remnant: remaining parts
- Scruff: back of the neck
- See to: examine
- Solemnly: with deep sincerity
- Stiffly: in a way that is firm and difficult to bend or move.
- Subsequent: next
- Topsy-turvy: upside down
- Turning up: coming into view
- Twiddling: turning
- Whacking: beating; striking
Chapter 10 The Story of Cricket
- Amateur: someone who does something not for money or fame, but for enjoyment; unprofessional
- Baseball: game (popular in the U.S.A.) played with a bat and ball by two teams of nine players each on a field with four bases
- Centre of gravity: point of major importance
- Codified: standardised with rules and regulations
- Compatriots: fellow countrymen
- Contemporaries: persons or things living or existing at the same time as another.
- Coverage: reportage, footage
- Deception through the air: The ball is no longer rolled along the ground but sent through the air. Hence the possible variety or ‘deception’ in bowling.
- dimensions: length, breadth, etc.
- Draw: result of a game in which neither side wins or loses
- Fundamentally: basically, essentially
- Imitating: copying, mimicking
- Length: the distance from the bastman at which the ball pitches
- Oval: shaped like an egg
- Peculiarities: weird differences
- Pioneer: a person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.
- Polo ponies: horses used in the game of polo.
- Prejudiced: preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
- Prime: the state or time of greatest vigour or success in a person’s life, youth
- Shot selection: choice of strokes
- Sovereign: a supreme ruler, especially a monarch.
- Triumph: victory
- Viewership: the audience for a particular television programme or channel.