"Most children brought up in Brooklyn before the First World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the day children went around “ragamuffin” or “slamming gates,” wearing costumes topped off by a penny mask." This evokes a sense of time and place because of the diction it uses. It tells us that it was before WW1 on Thanksgiving.
Example since she is listing different types of recreational activities to help the reader understand the word without defining it.
C. bypass
A bypass is defined as a path that provides another route to a specific location. Therefore, it doesn't describe and it doesn't have a connection with the meaning of language.
Receptacle: In this excerpt, the word refers to a hollow object used to contain something; a container.
Consumation: The author uses the world consumation as a synonym of achievement. He has finally completed his ultimate goal.
Obliterate: Here, the word means "forgotten." The doctor was so overwhealmed with his success that he could ignore everything he had done to achieve it.