Which word is a synonym for remote in this sentence:

After this remote Pacific island was settled by the Polynesians, it remained isolated for centuries.

Which word is a synonym for settle in this sentence:

After this remote Pacific island was settled by the Polynesians, it remained isolated for centuries.

Which word is a synonym for isolated in this sentence:

After this remote Pacific island was settled by the Polynesians, it remained isolated for centuries.

Which word is a synonym for platform in this sentence:

The moai were carved with stone tools, then transported for many kilometres, without the use of animals or wheels, to massive stone platforms.

Which word is a synonym for stranded in this sentence:

Bestselling Swiss author Erich von Daniken believed they were built by stranded extraterrestrials.

Which word is a synonym for definitively in this sentence:

Modern science - linguistic, archaeological and genetic evidence - has definitively proved the moai builders were Polynesians, but not how they moved their creations.

Which word is a synonym for folklore in this sentence:

Local folklore maintains that the statues walked, while researchers have tended to assume the ancestors dragged the statues somehow, using ropes and logs.

Which word is a synonym for drag in this sentence:

Local folklore maintains that the statues walked, while researchers have tended to assume the ancestors dragged the statues somehow, using ropes and logs.

Which word is a synonym for descendant in this sentence:

US scientist Jared Diamond believes that the Rapanui people - descendants of Polynesian settlers - wrecked their own environment.

Which word is a synonym for wreck in this sentence:

US scientist Jared Diamond believes that the Rapanui people - descendants of Polynesian settlers - wrecked their own environment.

Which word is a synonym for scarce in this sentence:

As trees became scarce and they could no longer construct wooden canoes for fishing, they ate birds.

Which word is a synonym for descend in this sentence:

Before Europeans arrived, the Rapanui had descended into civil war and cannibalism, he maintains.

Which word is a synonym for scenario in this sentence:

The collapse of their isolated civilisation, Diamond writes, is a 'worst-case scenario for what may lie ahead of us in our own future'.

Which word is a synonym for accelerate in this sentence:

The moai, he thinks, accelerated the self-destruction.

Which word is a synonym for rival in this sentence:

Diamond interprets them as power displays by rival chieftains who, trapped on a remote little island, lacked other ways of asserting their dominance.

Which word is a synonym for dominance in this sentence:

Diamond interprets them as power displays by rival chieftains who, trapped on a remote little island, lacked other ways of asserting their dominance.

Which word is a synonym for haul in this sentence:

Diamond thinks they laid the moai on wooden sledges, hauled over log rails, but that required both a lot of wood and a lot of people.

Which word is a synonym for catastrophe in this sentence:

Archaeologists Terry Hunt of the University of Hawaii and Carl Lipo of California State University agree that Easter Island lost its lush forests and that it was an 'ecological catastrophe' - but they believe the islanders themselves weren't to blame.

Which word is a synonym for infertile in this sentence:

Archaeological excavations indicate that the Rapanui went to heroic efforts to protect the resources of their wind-lashed, infertile fields.

Which word is a synonym for moist in this sentence:

They built thousands of circular stone windbreaks and gardened inside them, and used broken volcanic rocks to keep the soil moist.

Which word is a synonym for pioneer in this sentence:

In short, Hunt and Lipo argue, the prehistoric Rapanui were pioneers of sustainable farming.

Which word is a synonym for contend in this sentence:

Hunt and Lipo contend that moai-building was an activity that helped keep the peace between islanders.

Which word is a synonym for upright in this sentence:

They also believe that moving the moai required few people and no wood, because they were walked upright.

Which word is a synonym for manoeuvre in this sentence:

Recent experiments indicate that as few as 18 people could, with three strong ropes and a bit of practice, easily manoeuvre a 1,000 kg moai replica a few hundred metres.

Which word is a synonym for replica in this sentence:

Recent experiments indicate that as few as 18 people could, with three strong ropes and a bit of practice, easily manoeuvre a 1,000 kg moai replica a few hundred metres.

Which word is a synonym for tilt in this sentence:

The figures' fat bellies tilted them forward, and a D-shaped base allowed handlers to roll and rock them side to side.

Which word is a synonym for convince in this sentence:

Moreover, Hunt and Lipo are convinced that the settlers were not wholly responsible for the loss of the island's trees.

Which word is a synonym for wholly in this sentence:

Moreover, Hunt and Lipo are convinced that the settlers were not wholly responsible for the loss of the island's trees.

Which word is a synonym for nut in this sentence:

Archaeological finds of nuts from the extinct Easter Island palm show tiny grooves, made by the teeth of Polynesian rats.

Which word is a synonym for doom in this sentence:

They would have prevented the reseeding of the slow-growing palm trees and thereby doomed Rapa Nui's forest, even without the settlers' campaign of deforestation.

Which word is a synonym for collapse in this sentence:

Hunt and Lipo also see no evidence that Rapanui civilisation collapsed when the palm forest did.

Which word is a synonym for stable in this sentence:

They think its population grew rapidly and then remained more or less stable until the arrival of the Europeans, who introduced deadly diseases to which islanders had no immunity.

Which word is a synonym for immunity in this sentence:

They think its population grew rapidly and then remained more or less stable until the arrival of the Europeans, who introduced deadly diseases to which islanders had no immunity.

Which word is a synonym for decimate in this sentence:

Then in the nineteenth century slave traders decimated the population, which shrivelled to 111 people by 1877.

Which word is a synonym for shrivel in this sentence:

Then in the nineteenth century slave traders decimated the population, which shrivelled to 111 people by 1877.

Which word is a synonym for steward in this sentence:

Hunt and Lipo’s vision, therefore, is one of an island populated by peaceful and ingenious moai builders and careful stewards of the land, rather than by reckless destroyers ruining their own environment and society.

Which word is a synonym for reckless in this sentence:

Hunt and Lipo’s vision, therefore, is one of an island populated by peaceful and ingenious moai builders and careful stewards of the land, rather than by reckless destroyers ruining their own environment and society.

Which word is a synonym for ASSUME in this sentence:

Local folklore maintains that the statueswalked, while researchers have tended to ASSUME theancestors dragged the statues somehow, using ropesand logs.

Which word is a synonym for COLLAPSE in this sentence:

The COLLAPSE of their isolated civilisation, Diamond writes, is a ’worstcase scenario for what may lie ahead of us in our ownfuture’.