✅ U8 Check for Understanding 1.2: Read Chapter 1

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Read Chapter 1

Read the excerpt from chapter 1 below:

 

He stayed for several months and never offered us any further payment. Whenever my father mentioned his bill, the captain would raise his voice and stare ominously at him until he retreated. I am sure the terror in which my father lived greatly hastened his death.

 

What does the word ominously mean? What clues from the text help you know?

 

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