BEAST - Answers1. Fears and chills. A bete noire (literally black beast) is something that you dread and maybe fear. The ogre in the closet is Opus’s bete noire; pop quizzes in differential calculus are mine.2. A youngish eel (from eelfare, the upstream passage of young eels). Although they’re often called chicken-neckers, crabbers are more likely to use elvers as bait. 3. Avast means cease, stop (from Dutch hour vast—hold fast). Avast there, matey, you’re about to tie a granny knot. 4. To succor is to give someone aid (from Latin via Old French). Some saints succored several citizens who suffered severely. (Succor can also be a noun, meaning the help given). 5. Travail means pain and toil (the word comes from the Latin tripalium, meaning an instrument of torture consisting of three stakes). Peasant women endured the travail of childbirth, then soon returned to work in the field. |
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