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Unit 8 — English - FL STD 11 Science — Question

Gujarat BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 ScienceEnglish - FLUnit 83 Marks
Question
"(pockmarked, stopped, bordered, careered, vestiges, erected) My headache soon cleared as we ____ Q.1. ____ down the other side of the pass. It was two o’clock by the time we ____ Q.2. ____ for lunch. We ate hot noodles inside a long canvas tent, part of a work camp ____ Q.3. ____ beside a dry salt lake. The plateau is ____ Q.4. ____ with salt flats and brackish lakes, ____ Q.5. ____ of the Tethys Ocean which ____ Q.6. ____ Tibet before the great continental collision that lifted it skyward.
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Answer

1. careered
2. stopped
3. erected
4. pockmarked
5. vestiges
6. bordered

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