• to slack, to slacken, to slake

• to appease

• to fight a fire

• altar, communion table, shrine

• graft, inoculation, quenching, vaccination

• to extinguish, to quench, to slake, to smother, to turn off

• he/she was

• to cobble, to darn, to patch, to piece

• hampered

• dead

• apocryphal, fictional, fictitious

• marinate, pickled

• backwater

• shod

• body, dead body

• scream, screech, shriek, squall

• patchy

• dejected, depressed, disconcerted, distressed, downcast, downhearted, have the hip, have the hump, low, overcast, to be in low spirits, to be in poor spirits, to be in the dumps, to be out of spirits, to desolate, to feel low

• veiled

• wet spot

• advised, chary, deliberate, discreet, earnest, grave, guarded, judicious, leisurely, level-headed, mature, measured, moderate, prudent, reflective, slow, sober-minded, staid, studious, uncompanionable, unhurried