Please read it not as a coherent text, because it isn't, but a collection of separate sentences.
endowment
Numerous problems remain, including a low endowment of energy sources, an underdeveloped industrial sector, and difficulties with tax receipts, in a country where most of the population live below the threshold of poverty.
A second invasion also ended in defeat, but this time Alaric forced the Senate in Rome to pay the Visigoths a large endowment.
malign
The claim that the Lombards wiped out peoples is evidently false, but there can be no doubting their malign impact on the landowning class and churches in the areas that they took over.
In times of crisis, they deployed the symbols and rituals of their secular and religious cultures to reinforce demands for social justice and for vengeance against malign forces within and outside the household and community.
to tally
To the American public, British interference in trade, the stopping of food supplies to Germany, limitations on journalists, and censoring of the mail had all been tallied against Britain.
I was ordered by father to tally the number of pieces of ice hauled by each horse and slide, whilst in addition I was compelled to work in the ice house stowing the ice.
growl
I slowed down the engine and, with an impatient growl, bent over the little binnacle to look at the compass and get my bearings before pointing the Comfort's nose in the direction of Denboro.
A hoarse growl, or rather scream from the inmost recess of the covert, at this moment, betrayed the position of the game, and convinced us that the monster was rousing from his lair.
gnat
At nightfall one's legs must be encased in mosquito boots practically all the year on the coast and six months in the interior, as the countless variety of gnats, mosquitoes and biting flies hover about under dinner-tables and chairs to feast upon the unfortunate females who prefer a pretty slipper and silken ankle to sensible, though unlovely, protection.
Since both the gnat larvae and the silversides feed extensively on tiny planktonic crustaceans, the fish probably reduce the population of gnats both by eating them and by competing with them for food.
acclaim
Ambrose Bierce became particularly envious of Stephen Crane, whose 1895 Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage received a level of popular and critical acclaim that overshadowed Bierce’s own war stories.
By criticizing Meun’s misogynistic tone and the unfortunate affect it had on general attitudes toward women, Christine countered the acclaim accorded the poem by male commentators.
