The adventure of tom sawyer by mark twain grammar and style exercise 4. I need answers :)

The two essential parts of the sentence are the: a: subject n verb b: subject n noun c: adjective n verb

When first i engaged in this work, i resolved to leave neither words nor things unexamined, and myself with a prospect of the hours which i should revel away in feasts of literature . . –preface to a dictionary of the english language, samuel johnson what is the connotation of the word revel in this passage?

How many lynching took place in the south between 1877 and 1950