English 11 vocab 27

Many settlers ____ believed that they had a right to American Indian Lands. To support this arrogant attitude, many ____, or spread, false stories about the Indians.

• contritely, protracted

• indolently, wrested

• presumptuously, propagated

• effetely, inured

Some writers and government officials falsely portrayed American Indians as ___ and _____, just the opposite of the moral and hardworking pioneers.

• presumptuous, contrite

• stinted, inured

• indolent, abated

• indolent, effete

Today, many citizens express _____ for the mistreatment of American Indians. People now realize the ___ of saying one culture is superior to another.

• presumptuous, indolence

• effeteness, indolence

• contrition, propagation

• contrition, presumptuousness

Pioneers ___ themselves to hardship. They learned to go without things like sugar or new clothes.

• abated

• wrested

• inured

• propagated

The homesteaders who settled in the rocky plains of Texas faced a(n) ____ battle to ____ a living from the harsh, dry, land; they had to work long hours to realize any return on their efforts.

• protracted, wrest

• indolent, inure

• effete, inure

• protracted, abate

Lack of control over climate caused many “dust bowl” settlements to fail, but irrigation has finally allowed crops to _____.

• protract

• propagate

• inure

• wrest

When the mining of gold and silver in western mines ____, once-thriving mining towns became ghost towns.

• abated

• wrested

• protracted

• inured

In 1971, more than 400,000 cattle were driven from Texas to Kansas. Cowboys served long ____ on the trails herding the cattle there for shipment to the East.

• indolence

• effete

• stints

• propagation

Chief Standing Bear claimed that the meditation and reflection of American Indians was not laziness or ____ behavior, but a process of joining with the universe.

• propagated

• presumptuous

• protracted

• indolent

One frontier myth that will never ____ in importance is the story of Johnny Appleseed. Stories of this roving orchard planter continue to intrigue readers.

• inure

• abate

• propagate

• protract