The word: Exempt

Part of speech: Verb

The source sentence and page number: (Funny in Farsi) page 105 " The Christian and Jewish children at my school were exempt from religion studies, a fact that caused much envy among the rest of us."

Context clues: "Christian and Jewish kids" "Envy among the rest."

Definition: to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release

Your original sentence: Currently, the Government plans to exempt pubs that do not serve prepared food from the smokefree legislation.