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Read the excerpt. Determine the word meanings by using context.
Then, choose the best answers.
> Week 2 (8
n 1. Read the excerpt. Determine the
word meanings by using
context. Then, choose the best
answer.
A Leaf in the Storm
by Marie Louise de la Ramée
✓ Week 38
Peril means
Mond
Osafety
1 And all this while the war went on, but seemed far from them, so seldom
did any tidings of it pierce the seclusion in which they dwelt. By and by, as
the autumn went on, they learned a little more. Fugitives coming to the
smithy for a horse's shoe; women fleeing to their old village homes from
their light, happy life in the city; mandates from the government of defense
sent to every hamlet in the country; stray news-sheets brought in by carriers
or hawkers and hucksters, -all these by degrees told them of the peril of
their country,-vaguely, Indeed, and seldom truthfully, but so that by
mutilated rumors they came at last to know the awful facts of the fate of
Sedan, the fall of the Empire, the slege of Paris.
Tuesd
Style
O prosperity
Wed./1
and cu
O popularity
O danger
• Friday
Summa
2 It did not alter their daily lives: It was still too far off and too impalpable.
But a foreboding, a dread, an unspeakable woe settled down on them.
Already their lands and cattle had been harassed to yleld provision for the
army and large towns; already their best horses had been taken for the
slege-trains and the forage-wagons; already their ploughshares were
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