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1 Screech, abrupt scream.

2 Parsonage.

3 Pauper, beggar.

4 Attic, loft.

5 Slope of a hill.

6 Children.

7 Pester, bother.

8 Empty.

9 Shallow, decaying.

10 Stock.

11 Dispose of property in one’s will.

12 To be scared, frightened.

13 Not to expect or receive promise of peace or experience no trials.

14 Direction.

15 Pledged.

16 Hereabouts.

17 Dressing or bandage for a wound.

18 Veil.

19 A partner, an equal associate.

20 Cast, shed, dropped.

21 Hereabouts, near or around this place.

22 Cut, trim, prune.

23 Answerable, responsible.

24 As a loan.

25 Split.

26 Splitting.

27 Work done on the side, work done in one’s spare time.

28 Dismiss or banish from the court.

29 Obsured, dimmed, mistaken.

30 “It is all over.”

31 Market price.

32 Compel, haul, pull.

33 Choir.

34 Destroy.

35 A stingy or ungenerous person.

36 Be sorrow for, regrets.

37 Half of.

38 Cracked.

39 Direction.

40 Servicable.

41 Prearranged meeting.

42 Way, path.

43 Extreme want, poverty, destitution.

44 To hurt or cause pain.

45 Related to, a sibling of.

46 Timely.

47 A passage, way out.

48 Clasp hands to seal a deal or agreement between two people.

49 Difficult.

50 Cowardly.

51 Problem, difficulty.

52 Step-mother.

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