Match each underlined word to its correct meaning based on the context of the sentence. Tom had long been picking his way cautiously through this treacherous forest;
stepping from tuft to tuft of rushes and roots, which afforded precarious footholds among deep sloughs.
It was a dreary memento of the fierce struggle that had taken place in this last foothold of the Indian warriors.
He was sulky, however, and would not come to terms: she was to go again with a propitiatory offering,
but what it was she forbore to say.
At this propitious time of public distress did Tom Walker set up as a usurer in Boston.
favorable
arrowBoth
conciliatory
arrowBoth
dangerous
arrowBoth
bleak
arrowBoth
Reset Next