English, 25.09.2019 23:30 evanwall91

Based on the context in these excerpts from ernest hemingway's "in another country," choose the word that most closely matches the meaning of each bolded word.
to be shriveled
a person who practices fencing
to yield or to accept
the major, who had been a great fencer, did not believe in bravery, and spent much time while we sat in the machines correcting my grammar.
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"i am sorry," he said, and patted me on the shoulder with his good hand. "i would not be rude. my wife has just died. you must forgive me."
"oh—" i said, feeling sick for him. "i am so sorry."
he stood there biting his lower lip. "it is very difficult," he said. "i cannot resign myself."
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the doctor went to his office in a back room and brought a photograph which showed a hand that had been withered almost as small as the major's, before it had taken a machine course, and after was a little larger. the major held the photograph with his good hand and looked at it very carefully.

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