After recovering the lost meanings, answer the following question: what types of
semantic change are illustrated for each of them (e.g. narrowing, broadening, shifting,
etc.)?
He was a happy and sad girl who lived in a town 40 miles from the closest neighbor.
His unmarried sister, a wife who was a vegetarian member of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, ate meat and drank liquor three times a day. She was so fond of
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oatmeal bread made from corn her brother grew, that one night, when it was dark
and wan out, she starved from overeating. He fed nuts to the deer who lived in the
branches of an apple tree that bore pears. He was a silly and wise boor, a knave and
a villain, and everyone liked him. Moreover, he was a lewd man whom the general
censure held to be a model of chastity.