Silent Spring Vocabulary

What would a blight most likely do to a farmer’s crops?

• make them more plentiful

• allow them to sell for a profit

• help them to ripen sooner

• cause them to rot or die

Which of these words tells how a person with maladies is most likely to feel?

• ill

• silly

• angry

• embarrassed

What happens to the adjective sick if you add the suffix -ness to it?

• It turns into a verb meaning “to become sick.

• It turns into a noun meaning “the study of being sick.

• It turns into a noun meaning “the condition of being sick.

• It remains an adjective but now means “the opposite of being sick.

Which sentence best illustrates the meaning of deserted?

• A caravan of traders moved slowly across the hot sand.

• Late at night, not a soul was to be seen on Roosevelt Avenue.

• We decided to wait and see the movie when Max was feeling better.

• The beach was so crowded that we had trouble finding a place to sit.

What is one meaning of the Old English suffix -ness?

• the quality of being

• the opposite of

• the study of

• to become

What is stillness?

• 
  Absence of noise or motion

• 
  Illnesses or diseases

• Confused and unable to understand something

• Very badly affected by trouble or illness

What does puzzled mean?

• 
  Something that spoils, prevents growth, or destroys

• 
  Illnesses or diseases

• Confused and unable to understand something

• 
  Very badly affected by trouble or illness

What does stricken mean?

• Confused and unable to understand something

• 
  Very badly affected by trouble or illness

• 
  

  Illnesses or diseases

• Something that spoils, prevents growth, or destroys