| incomprehensible | bereft | quarantine | contagious |
| stench | irony | nonchalance | balefully |
Read the sentences below from the chapter. Write down what you think the word in bold means. Check your definition in the dictionary. Write the definition down from the dictionary. Write a new sentence for each word.
After all the years of living with his incomprehensible wife, arguing with her, loving her, Moses Peter was bereft at Hannah's death. Her buried his wife in numbed grief, then allowed the local instructors to make arrangements for the care of his children.
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Dr. Lulu Disosway was a small, fiery woman. It was said that she once had quarantined Fort Yukon just before all the white trappers returned to town. At that time, the hospital had the authority to quarantine the village to control the spread of contagious disease.
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