Answer:
In accordance with the story "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note", by Mark Twain, and which was published in 1893 as a short story, the pairings of the words in the word list, to the word bank, to give them their correct meaning, would be as follows:
1. Breaking the bill: giving change
2. Common clay: Ordinary man
3. Trifle: small amoun
4. Larks: Tricks.
These choices come from reading the story, in which an American man, Henry Adams, comes to end up in London, during the Victorian era, penniless after a boating accident. He becomes the object of a bet between two very excentric brothers who provide him with an envelope with instructions and some money, one million pounds sterling, to be exact, as part of the bet. In the end, Henry comes through with the bet and proves the point of one of the brothers, and receives an added benefit for his having fulfilled the bet.
