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4. How did the Portuguese interact with the local fishermen?
5. What did da Gama’s messenger tell the Zamorin about the Portuguese?

Vocabulary

Read the following sentences.

The return of the messenger with good news pleased the shipmates.

They rejoiced at the prospect of obtaining the Zamorin’s goodwill.

The highlighted words are examples of compound words. Compound words are formed
when two or more words come together to form a new word with a new meaning. There
are three kinds of compound words.
• A closed compound word is written as one word without a space or hyphen between
the words it is made of.

football moonlight

• Open compound words are written as two words with a space in between but are read
together to get the meaning.

post office full moon
• Hyphenated compound words have a hyphen between the words they are made of.

well-being merry-go-round

A. Match the words in the two columns to make compound words and write

them in the blanks correctly.

1. land paper _______________

2. earth barrow _______________

3. week mill _______________

4. pan yard _______________

5. news slide _______________

6. wheel cake _______________

7. wind end _______________

8. grave quake _______________

9. water mate _______________
10 class melon _______________

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