NEO39

Question 1

inbreeding

Answer 1

a situation in which plants, animals, or people are produced by breeding between closely related plants, animals, or people
example: point where inbreeding enables the enhanced proliferation of genes

Question 2

proliferation

Answer 2

the fact of something increasing a lot and suddenly in number or amount
example: point where inbreeding enables the enhanced proliferation of genes

Question 3

detrimental

Answer 3

causing harm or damage
example: detrimental to a species’ overall fitness

Question 4

persecution

Answer 4

unfair or cruel treatment over a long period of time because of race, religion, or political beliefs
example: hat disappeared from most of Norway and Sweden during the twentieth century after hundreds of years of persecution.

Question 5

culpability

Answer 5

the fact that someone deserves to be blamed or considered responsible for something bad
example: Also casting doubt on the
wolf’s culpability is the fact that it had been hunted out of many alpine regions

Question 6

ferocious

Answer 6

frightening and violent
example: the arctic fox at least, is far more ferocious: the red fox

Question 7

encroach

Answer 7

to take control or possession of something in a gradual way and often without being noticed
example: are increasingly encroaching on what previously had been territory inhabited only by arctic foxes

Question 8

stripping

Answer 8

the act of removing something from somewhere
example: which was stripping gases
from the earliest atmosphere before the magnetic field had started up

Question 9

fiery

Answer 9

flaming or extremely bright, hot, or of a red color like fire
example: Earth’s fiery birth phase had rapidly settled down