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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

Was it humility, to feel so honoured?

I felt so honoured.

And yet those voices:

(c) What does 'humility' in the first line mean?

OR

And I had never found it healthy to contradict Jenkins. Jenkins always seemed to have an uncanny knowledge as to when the landlord or the grocer was pestering me, and he dunned me for a ghost. And somehow I'd always been able to dig one up for him, so I'd begun to get a bit cocky as to my ability.

(c) What does the word 'cocky' mean?

 

Answer:

(c) 'Humility' means to be humble.

OR

(c) The word 'cocky' means showing confidence in a way that is annoying for the other people.