NEO40

Question 1

execute

Answer 1

to do something that has been carefully planned
example: To execute his plan

Question 2

rationalize

Answer 2

to make a company, way of working, etc. more effective, usually by combining or stopping particular activities, or by employing fewer people:
example: at rationalizing a landscape in world history.

Question 3

wedded to something

Answer 3

firmly believing in or supporting an idea, theory, or suggestion and unwilling to change it:
example: outward expression of a culture wedded not simply to democracy but to
markets and exchange as well.

Question 4

In place

Answer 4

instead of someone or something:
example: In place of the native vegetation,

Question 5

monoculture

Answer 5

the practice of growing only one crop or keeping only one type of animal on an area of farm land:
example: grow best in a monocultural environment

Question 6

apace

Answer 6

quickly:
example: improved railroad transportation, proceeded apace

Question 7

outstrip

Answer 7

to be or become greater than something or someone in amount, degree, or success:
example: population growth had outstripped the local farm economy’s
ability to provide.

Question 8

underwrite

Answer 8

to give an activity financial support and take responsibility for paying any costs if it fails:
example: West’s surplus of soil wealth underwrote the industrial
development farther east.

Question 9

spur

Answer 9

to encourage an activity or development or make it happen faster:
example: spurred farmers to eliminate the sack altogether

Question 10

mode

Answer 10

a way of operating, living, or behaving:
example: is their efficient mode of reproduction

Question 11

lure

Answer 11

to attract a person or animal:
example: nectar that is generated to lure it

Question 12

fertilization

Answer 12

the process of causing an egg or seed to start to develop into a new young animal or plant by joining it with a male cell:
example: double fertilization.