Please help this is a quiz and it’s due today please

What effect is achieved by the use of the phrase "as the devil would have it" in the second sentence?

You are reading an informational text for english class, and you find a lot of words you don't know. your teacher says you don't need to look up all of them in the dictionary, only the ones you need to get the main point of the text. how could text features you figure out which words to look up?

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