my Tough Words in Ms. Pelayo's English Class for me

Heidi J. (United States of America)
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  1. beadle
    a minor parish official who serves smaller church functions
    But these impertinences were speedily checked by the evidence of the surgeon, and the testimony of the beadle; the former of whom had always opened the body and found nothing inside (which was very probable indeed), and the latter of whom invariably swore whatever the parish wanted; which was very self-devotional.
  2. fictitious name
    (law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation
    THE CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of
  3. stipendiary
    receiving or eligible for compensation
    Are you aweer, Mrs. Mann, that you are, as I may say, a porochial delegate, and a stipendiary?'
  4. pauper
    a person who is very poor
    There being nobody by, however, but a pauper old woman, who was rendered rather misty by an unwonted allowance of beer; and a parish surgeon who did such matters by contract; Oliver and Nature fought out the point between them.
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