Unit-13, Lesson Ayesha Begum has three sons and two daughters. Her husband was a landless ( dispossessed, evicted ,outsed ) farmer who used to work on other people's land. With great effort ( exertion ,sweat ) they married their daughters off by the time they reached teenage (adolescent, juvenile ). The sons also started working with their father as day laborers when they were old enough (ample) to help. By the time they were about seventeen years old, all of them had left to work in nearby( nigh, adjoining, adjacent ) towns to earn money. At first, they used to send money to their parents occasionally( sporadically , seldom) but after getting married they barely had enough to support their own families. Ayesha Begum and her husband are...
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