PART A:
CC #1 + #2
CC #1 + #2
It is, perhaps, difficult for us to ________ the horrors of the Black Death and to understand its extensive effects.
perceive
Can you picture the __________ of traders and merchants who poured into cities and helped spread the plague?
influx
Because oil spills are complex problems, ____________ solutions will not work.
naive
Often further damage occurs during cleanups. People often _________ cause this damage when the side effects of their cleanup efforts unexpectedly do more harm than good.
inadvertently
Most of us even have trouble imaging the carriers, the fleas on rats because we usually think of fleas on _____________ and felines.
canines
Perhaps you can get an idea of the ___________ of the plague if you know that it damaged human-population figures far more than any war ever has.
ravages / obliteration
Each ______________ in the history of oil spills requires different answers because of varying natural conditions.
episode
No one system of cleanup is ___________ , or free of problems. For example, burning the oil off the water gets rid of some of the oil but causes air pollution.
infallible
We need an extensive knowledge of geography to tract the plague's route from Asia across Europe. A _______________ knowledge will not be sufficient.
meager
The plague had been _____________ in Europe since A.D. 744. But it broke out again in 1347 and once again started ______________ entire cities.
defunct
ravishing / obliterating
People who are ___________ about cleanup efforts should offer workable solutions instead of scoffing.
sardonic
The light filtering through the _________ icebergs has been known to charm even the most cynical, ____________ person.
translucent
sardonic
At its height, its _________________, the plague _____________ a large portion of the population of India every day, wiping out entire villages.
apex
obliterated / ravished
It must have been difficult for a lower-class and even for a ___________ person to cope with the _________, the widespread slaughter, of the plague. However, even the upper classes had few resources to cope with the disease.
bourgeois
ravages / obliterations
The cold air probably acted as a(n) _____________ to clean up workers, energizing them to work quickly.
stimulant
Competent leaders should not _______________ responsibility and leave the power in the hands of ______________ people who may mean well, but may not have the experience necessary to handle the situation.
abdicate
naive
Some observant people ________________ that fewer people had the plague in the country than in cities. As a result, rural areas experiences a(n) ________________ of city people.
perceived
influx
I would have had _____________ abilities, practically none at all. To cope with such a tragedy my defense if to _____________ and hide behind an inflexible exterior.
ossify
They hoped that the extraordinary beauty of the sound could be maintained. Before the oil spill, only _________ chunks of ice (looking like glass) had floated on the water.
translucent
No one knows how the oil spill started. Their anger has not changed anything, but environmentalists are still ___________ by the damage done to the environment.
rankled