Clearly, you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your implicit knowledge of English grammar.
I'm going to start here with the word " evil" (evil), since in some way, the other three words are more closely related than this word is to the others.
What had jarred on him even more than the signature was a little sting he had been silent on-the phrase " married relation" -What an idiot it made him seem as her lover!
The word " relations, " when it means the way that two groups or two people get along, is probably used more often when we're talking about politics, when we're talking about different countries.
It's because " between" is a preposition; a preposition is a word like " at" , " on" , " in" , " with" , words like these, small words that show a relationship between different words.