Read these excerpts from oliver twist by charles dickens and identify the meaning of each bolded word based on its context.

child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. he rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: “, sir. i want some more.”

the shop-boys in the neighbourhood had long been in the habit of branding noah in the public streets, with the ignominious epithets of “leathers,” “charity,” and the like; and noah had bourne them without reply

it cannot be expected that this system of farming would produce any very extraordinary or luxuriant crop. oliver twist's ninth birthday found him a pale thin child, somewhat diminutive in stature, and decidedly small in circumference.
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