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> Week 1 (a

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 deg