Read the following paragraph and write the synonyms of the underlined words choosing the words from the words given in the box.
1. interested; causes; fields; clever; foreign countries; dull C.V. Raman was a brilliant (a) student right from the start. When Raman passed his matriculation, his parents were keen (b) to send him abroad (c) for higher studies. But on medical grounds, (d) a British surgeon advised them against it.
2. desires; decline; impact; journey; magazine; imagination Science had already made an impression (a) on him and he began to write research papers for science journals (b). When he was only 19, he became a member of the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science. Meanwhile, respecting his parents’ wishes (c) he took up an administrative job in the Finance Ministry in Calcutta. His interest in science, however, did not flag (d).
3. invention, nation, praised The world hailed (a) the discovery as the ‘Raman Effect’. For scientific research in this country (b), it was a red-letter day.
4. kingly, selected, divine He was elected (a) to the Royal (b) Society of London in 1924 and the British Govt, made him knight of the British Empire.
