Based on the context of each quote from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs, find the word that most closely matches the denotation of the bolded word. to make a supply last by economy to free from to refrain from to show But as she grew older she evinced so much intelligence, and was so faithful, that her master and mistress could not help seeing it was for their interest to take care of such a valuable piece of property arrowBoth He told her all; only he forbore to mention how sick and pale her darling looked. arrowBoth She did this to prevent the cook and her children from eking out their meager fare with the remains of the gravy and other scrapings arrowBoth O, how I despised him! I thought how glad I should be, if some day when he walked the earth, it would open and swallow him up, and disencumber the world of a plague. arrowBoth