English 11 Vocab 30

After Olmsted’s brother died, Olmsted looked after Mary and ____ her three children. He eventually married her and adopted the children as his own.

• oriented

• incised

• nurtured

• girded

Olmsted became famous in New York City for his prize-winning plan to turn barren land into a green, ______ public park.

• askew

• arable

• incised

• indigenous

Olmsted admired how well-tended and ___ Europe’s public parks were. He believed that something was ___ about the planning in American cities.

• incised, nurturing

• abutted, orient

• nurtured, askew

• girded, orient

Olmsted didn’t ____, or prepare, himself for action right away. The opportunity to plan a public park presented itself by chance.

• abut

• orient

• incise

• gird

While having tea in a hotel, Olmsted’s seat ____ that of a planner of Central Park. At the planner’s side, Olmsted was able to cut into the conversation as easily as he ___ the steak on his plate.

• girded, incised

• abutted, incised

• nurtured, gradated

• oriented, nurtured

The planner was impressed with Olmsted’s knowledge of the ___, or steps, involved in constructing and operating a large public park.

• gradations

• incisions

• solstice

• girders

Olmsted quickly _____ himself to the topic, as one might position oneself with respect to north and south on the winter or summer ____.

• oriented, solstice

• oriented, gradation

• nurtured, solstice

• oriented, solstice

Olmsted had many skills necessary to build a public park: He knew how to make infertile land ____ and how to transplant plants that weren’t ___ to an area.

• orient, arable

• askew, nurturing

• arable, indigenous

• askew, arable

After he became superintendent, Olmsted’s ___ enabled him to cut through tangled political intrigues.

• orientation

• gradation

• arability

• incisiveness

After Central Park was finished, Olmsted quickly ___ himself for further action. His ambitions might once have been ____, but in his later years he made up for any youthful wrongheadedness.

• nurtured, arable

• girded, askew

• oriented, arable

• girded, abutted