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04. The River Bank

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Chapter: 04. The River Bank

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Word Wonder: Exploring Water Words

This section helps you expand your vocabulary by focusing on words related to water and how we use it. Understanding these words will make your writing and speaking more precise and descriptive.

Let’s look at the words provided and what they mean:

Sprinkle: To scatter or cause to fall in small drops or particles. Imagine watering delicate plants; you sprinkle them with water. It’s often a gentle, light action.

Splash: To make liquid fly about in drops. Think of jumping into a puddle or someone making waves in a pool; they splash water. It often implies a more forceful or playful action.

Wet: Covered or saturated with water or another liquid. If you step in a puddle, your shoes get wet. It describes the state of being covered in liquid.

Soak: To completely immerse something in liquid, or to become thoroughly saturated. If you want to clean a stained shirt, you might soak it in water first. It means to absorb a lot of liquid over time.

Spray: To apply liquid in a mass of fine drops. You use a spray bottle to mist plants, or a hose might spray water. It refers to a fine mist or stream of drops.

As you fill in the blanks, think about the action described in each sentence. Does it involve a gentle scattering of water, a forceful scattering, a complete saturation, or just getting something damp? The context of the sentence will guide you to the correct word.

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Fill in the blanks with words from the box to know about the ways in which we use water. splashed soak wet spray sprinkle

_ _ _ _ _ _ some water on the leaves to clean them.

Sprinkle

On Holi, children use water pistols to _ _ _ _ _ _ water on each other.

Spray

I _ _ _ _ _ _ the cloth and wiped the table.

Wet

I was sleepy so I _ _ _ _ _ _ some water on my face.

Splashed

You must _ _ _ _ _ _ the rice in water for ten minutes before you cook it.

Soak

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