Match each underlined word to its correct meaning based on the context of the sentence. Tom had long been picking his way cautiously through this treacherous forest;

stepping from tuft to tuft of rushes and roots, which afforded precarious footholds among deep sloughs.

It was a dreary memento of the fierce struggle that had taken place in this last foothold of the Indian warriors.

He was sulky, however, and would not come to terms: she was to go again with a propitiatory offering,

but what it was she forbore to say.

At this propitious time of public distress did Tom Walker set up as a usurer in Boston.

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conciliatory

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