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Read one of the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

They greeted us with friendly faces.

"I thought you picked fruit 'for a living', I said.

(c) What does the phrase, 'for a living' mean?

OR

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments

Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;

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

 

Answer:

(c) The phrase 'for a living' means ?to earn one?s livelihood.?

OR

(c) The word 'gilded' means 'the colour of gold'.