NEO45

Question 1

spell

Answer 1

a short period of a particular type of weather:
example: and there would have been frequent spells below freezing

Question 2

profusion

Answer 2

an extremely large amount of something:
example: months of a profusion of nutritious fresh growth by plants

Question 3

flesh

Answer 3

the soft part of the body of a person or animal covering the bones and organs:
example: the flesh eaters would eventually have succumbed too

Question 4

succumb

Answer 4

to die or suffer badly from an illness:
example: the flesh eaters would eventually have succumbed too

Question 5

demise

Answer 5

the death of a person:
example: combination of factors led to the demise of the non-bird dinosaurs

Question 6

paucity

Answer 6

the fact that there is too little of something:
example: had a paucity of fossils in comparison

Question 7

chronology

Answer 7

the order in which a series of events happened, or a list or explanation of these events in the order in which they happened:
example: brought the chronology of North American prehistory

Question 8

contaminated

Answer 8

poisonous or not pure:
example: if the sample had been contaminated

Question 9

prompted

Answer 9

to make something happen:
example: unexpectedly young age prompted a reexamination of the site,