English 11 vocab 29

Carver faced a ___, or dire, problem: The agriculture department could not afford to buy fertilizer. Carver ____ this problem by using other ways to nurture crops.

• Haggard, flailed

• Baleful, vanquished

• Bilateral, vanquished

• Stoic, vanquished

Carver and his ____ of students piled together leaves, weeds, vegetable peelings to form a rich compost heap. He was the first to promote organic gardening.

• Impunity

• Attrition

• Entourage

• Stoic

All the steps of producing a crop – from tilling soil to ____, or threshing, grain – involve hard work. Farmers have little time for _____, or drowsing.

• Vanquishing, stoicism

• Flailing, somnolence

• Vanquishing, impunity

• Flailing, haggardness

However, Carver’s students endured the work ____, with little complaint. Soon, the school’s land was yielding record numbers of sweet potatoes.

• Haggardly

• Balefully

• Somnolently

• Stoically

Carver soon had a ___ equal relationship with the farmers; they sought him out as often as he sought them out.

• Somnolent

• Stoic

• Bilateral

• Haggard

Carver worked to change the notion that cotton was the South’s only reliable cash crop. Throughout the slow process of ____, he convinced farmers to plant peanuts and sweet potatoes as well.

• Impunity

• Attrition

• Entourage

• Flailing

Carver might have fallen into a ___ lifestyle after he stopped teaching in 1910. Instead, he energetically set out to ____ an important problem: How could the South use its new crops?

• Baleful, flail

• Bilateral, vanquish

• Stoic, flail

• Somnolent, vanquish

Having converted their fields to peanut patches, the farmers now faced a ___ situation: They couldn’t sell the peanuts.

• Bilateral

• Baleful

• Somnolent

• Haggard

Carver’s solution was to ___ and grind the peanuts into a powder and then extract the peanut oil from the meal. In other words, he made peanut butter!

• Flail

• Become baleful

• Become stoical

• vanquish