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8 September, 12:10

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Match the underlined words in the excerpts from Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" to their correct contextual meanings.

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(to have a calming effect

to get up or raise oneself

to search or peer at thoroughly to locate something

to crouch or sit with bent knees

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The cook squatted in the bottom and looked with both eyes at the six inches of gunwale which separated him from the ocean.

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"Oh, well," said the captain, soothing his children, "We'll get ashore all right."

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The captain, rearing cautiously in the bow, after the dinghy soared on a great swell, said that he had seen the lighthouse at Mosquito Inlet.

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But at last there came a wave more gentle than the others, and when at the crest of it he swiftly scoured the western horizon.

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