Read the sentence from William Bradford’s Personal Journal: “Of Plymouth Plantation” and answer the question that follows:
Being thus passed the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembered by that which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh their weatherbeaten bodies; no houses or much less town to repair to, to seek for succor.
What word is closest in meaning to succor as it is used in the sentence?
a
Despair
b
Assistance
c
Anguish
d
Pity