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In this excerpt from The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, what do the underlined words mean?

From the same cause come also enduring grudges, in some cases amounting to hatred, which occasionally has been bequeathed from generation to generation…

…But while Mr. Redhead was reading the second lesson, the whole congregation, as by one impulse, began to leave the church, making all the noise they could with clattering and clumping of clogs, till, at length, Mr. Redhead and the clerk were the only two left to continue the service.

The word bequeathed means.
1).Crowned
2).Given
3).Complained
4).Hated

The word congregation means.
1).Gathering
2).Company
3).Team
4).Ministers

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The word bequeathed means. 2). Given
The word congregation means.1). Gathering

The answer to the first question would be: option 2 "Given", when taken into context the word bequeathed seems to mean that the hatred passed or was given from one generation to the next, the word itself can be defined as to pass on or leave something to someone else.

The answer to the second question would be: option 3 "Team", when taken into context the word congregation seems to mean a group of people who were at a certain place and not the act of getting a group of people together (which would be "gathering"), the word can be defined as a number of people who something together, as a group.

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