If I met a working man and his wife in the streets between eleven o'clock and midnight on their way home from the Ambigu Comique, I used to amuse myself by following them from the Boulevard du Pont aux Choux to the Boulevard Beaumarchais. The good folk would begin by talking about the play, then from one thing to another they would come to their own affairs, and the mother would walk on and on, heedless of complaints or question from the little one that dragged at her hand, while she and her husband reckoned up the wages to be paid on the morrow, and spend the money in a score of different ways. Then came domestic details, lamentations over the excessive dearness of potatoes, or the length of the winter and the high price of block fuel, together with forcible representations of amounts owing to the baker, ending in an acrimonious dispute, in the course of which such couples reveal their characters in picturesque language. As I listened, I could make their lives mine, I felt their rags on my back, I walked with their gaping shoes on my feet; their cravings, their needs, had all passed into my soul, or my soul had passed into theirs. It was the dream of a waking man. I waxed hot with them over the foreman's tyranny, or the bad customers that made them call again and again for payment.
Match the words in List I with their meanings given in List II
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LIST I |
LIST II |
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A. Reckoned |
I. Lack of attention |
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B. Amusement |
II. Feeling of disappointment |
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C. Lamentations |
III. Possessing an opinion |
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D. Heedless |
IV. Pleasant passage of time |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I
| List-I | List-II | Explanation | Example |
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| A. Reckoned | III. Possessing an opinion | To reckon is to calculate, and also to think or hold an opinion ("I reckon he is right"). The second sense matches List-II. | I reckoned that the train would be late. |
| B. Amusement | IV. Pleasant passage of time | Amusement is the enjoyment of something that passes the time pleasantly. The writer followed the couples to amuse himself. | For amusement, the children played cards on the train. |
| C. Lamentations | II. Feeling of disappointment | A lamentation is an expression of sorrow, regret or disappointment. The couple lamented the high prices. | The farmers' lamentations over the failed crop went on for days. |
| D. Heedless | I. Lack of attention | Heedless means paying no attention. The mother walked on, heedless of the child's complaints. | Heedless of the warning, he swam into the deep water. |
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