Class 10 - Synonyms - 8. The Sermon at Benares

Read the paragraph and write the synonym of the underlined words choosing from the words given in the brackets:

1. ( hereafter        happened     matched     protected             now    previously ) 

They had a son and lived for ten years as befitted (a) royalty. At about the age of twenty-five, the Prince, heretofore (b) shielded (c)  from the sufferings of the world, while out hunting chanced (d) upon a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral procession, and finally a monk begging for alms. 

2. ( protected          prevented        proclaimed           promised             taught      roamed )

He wandered (a) for seven years and finally sat down under a peepal tree, where he vowed (b) to stay until enlightenment came. The Buddha preached (c) his first sermon at the city of Benares, most holy of the dipping places on the River Ganges; that sermon has been preserved (d)  and is given here. It reflects the Buddha’s wisdom about one inscrutable kind of suffering.

3. ( ended        glimmered         fatigued          initiated         dominated        subdued )

Kisa Gotami became weary (a) and hopeless, and sat down at the wayside watching the lights of the city, as they flickered (b) up and were extinguished (c) again. At last the darkness of the night reigned (d) everywhere.

4. ( generous         excited       greedy      loneliness      eternal life         sadness )  

And she thought to herself, “How selfish (a)  am I in my grief (b) ! Death is common to all; yet in this valley of desolation (c)  there is a path that leads him to immortality (d)  who has surrendered all selfishness.”

5.  ( come       troubled          leave     butchery     mourning          nonviolent ) 

Of those who, overcome by death, depart (a) from life, a father cannot save his son, nor kinsmen their relations. Mark! while relatives are looking on and lamenting (b) deeply, one by one mortals are carried off, like an ox that is led to the slaughter (c) . So the world is afflicted (d) with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world.

6. (  destroyed         rescued           conquered  conflicting     mourning     crying )    

Not from weeping (a) nor from grieving (b) will anyone obtain peace of mind; on the contrary (c) , his pain will be the greater and his body will suffer. He will make himself sick and pale, yet the dead are not saved (d) by his lamentation. 

7. ( strives       works   acquire      blissful         peaceful       wrote )

He who seeks (a) peace should draw out the arrow of lamentation, and complaint, and grief. He who has drawn out the arrow and has become composed (b) will obtain (c) peace of mind; he who has overcome all sorrow will become free from sorrow, and be blessed (d).