CLASS 10
THE NECKLACE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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to have lots money
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to be clever
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a dock
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -: skill or cleverness in devising or combining : inventiveness. : cleverness or aptness of design or contrivance. : an ingenious device or contrivance. 3. obsolete : candor, ingenuousness.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ingenious comes from the Latin words for inborn talent. It started off meaning someone who was talented or incredibly smart, but has come to mean “inventive” or “clever.” If you could calculate how long a given water supply would last during a drought in your head, people might call you a math genius.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ingenuity is skill at working out how to achieve things or skill at inventing new things.
Detailed explanation-4: -[noncount] : skill or cleverness that allows someone to solve problems, invent things, etc. She showed amazing ingenuity in finding ways to cut costs. It will take considerable/much/some ingenuity to fix these problems.