12.
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Read this excerpt from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, and identify the meaning of the words in bold based on their context.
It chanced one morning, while Oliver's affairs were in this auspicious and comfortable state, that Mr. Gamfield, chimney-sweep, went his
way down the High Street, deeply cogitating in his mind his ways and means of paying certain arrears of rent, for which his landlord had
become rather pressing. Mr. Gamfield's most sanguine estimate of his finances could not raise them within full five pounds of the desired
amount; and, in a species of arithmetical desperation, he was alternately cudgelling his brains and his donkey, when passing the
workhouse, his eyes encountered the bill on the gate.
Wo-o!" said Mr. Gamfield to the donkey.
The donkey was in a state of profound abstraction: wondering, probably, whether he was destined to be regaled with a cabbage-stalk or
two when he had disposed of the two sacks of soot with which the little cart was laden; so, without noticing the word of command, he
jogged onward.
straining
punished
contemplating
rewarded
inventing
confronted
beating
yelling
belittling