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Match the bolded words to their contextual meanings based on how they are used in the excerpt from “Thanatopsis“by William Cullen Bryant.

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Communion is a relationship, mirth is amusement, musings is reflection or thought, and sepulchre is a burial place.

sepulchre - burial place or burial chamber

In the sentence it says that "Thou shalt lie down with patriarchs of the infant world-with kings, the powerful of the earth".  It is describing laying down in death buried with kings who have long since passed.

musings - reflection or thought

It says that she hears his "musings, with a mild and healing sympathy". Reflection or thought is the best choice because he is telling her his darker thoughts.

mirth - amusement or merriment

This is the best choice since the person is described as leaving these thing s behind to go to their bed, or resting place.

Communion - close relationship with someone or something

It talks about how he has a love of nature and communes with nature meaning that he has a close relationship with it. People also take communion at church as a way to be closer to God.