ZHENTI02

Question 1

tight-knit

Answer 1

closely connected:
example: tight-knit farming families

Question 2

graze

Answer 2

to (cause animals to) eat grass:
example: And they cultivated and grazed

Question 3

indenture

Answer 3

especially in the past, a formal agreement that someone will work for someone else for a particular length of time, especially in order to learn a job:
example: other than indentured servants (servants contracted to work for a specific number of years)

Question 4

compound

Answer 4

to make a problem or difficult situation worse, to add to
example: decreasing fertility of the soil compounded the problem of dwindling farm size

Question 5

dwindling

Answer 5

to become steadily less : SHRINK
example: decreasing fertility of the soil compounded the problem of dwindling farm size

Question 6

fallow

Answer 6

unplanted
example: then let it lay fallow (unplanted) in pasture

Question 7

husbandry

Answer 7

the cultivation or production of plants or animals :
example: Many of our old towns are too
full of inhabitants for husbandry,

Question 8

incessant

Answer 8

continuing or following without interruption
example: cereal crops required incessant labor

Question 9

intermittent

Answer 9

coming and going at intervals : not continuous
example: northern cultivators fill out their calendars with intermittent work as clockmakers, shoemakers, carpenters, and weavers

Question 10

keenly

Answer 10

extremely or very strongly:
example: but it rose keenly to 12 million

Question 11

hamlets

Answer 11

a small village, usually without a church
example: numerous hamlets formed throughout the country

Question 12

facets

Answer 12

one part of a subject, situation, etc. that has many parts:
example: There were many facets in an increase

Question 13

impetus

Answer 13

something that encourages a particular activity or makes that activity more energetic or effective:
example: Whatever the impetus, such formation of large villages

Question 14

surfeit

Answer 14

an amount that is too large, or is more than is needed
example: They then would use the surfeit soil

Question 15

proliferation

Answer 15

the fact of something increasing a lot and suddenly in number or amount:
example: led to a keen proliferation of crop output

Question 16

envoy

Answer 16

someone who is sent as a representative from one government or organization to another:
example: . An envoy from Korea

Question 17

decent

Answer 17

socially acceptable or good, acceptable, satisfactory, or reasonable:
example: one hectare of decent land

Question 18

cater

Answer 18

to provide, and sometimes serve, food:
example: enough land for food to cater to families for several reasons.

Question 19

arable

Answer 19

Arable farming land is used for, or is suitable for, growing crops:
example: for enough arable land to meet the food needed for just a single household

Question 20

antagonize

Answer 20

to anger someone enough to dislike and oppose you:
example: the likelihood of antagonizing neighbors.

Question 21

mainstay

Answer 21

the most important part of something, providing support for everything else:
example: , agriculture was the economic mainstay of the Ottoman Empire

Question 22

prevail

Answer 22

to get control or influence:
example: enormous changes over time prevailed in the agrarian sector

Question 23

agrarian

Answer 23

relating to the land, especially the use of land for farming:
example: enormous changes over time prevailed in the agrarian sector

Question 24

sector

Answer 24

A sector is also an area of land or sea that has been divided from other areas, one of the areas of activity that a country’s economy is divided into
example: enormous changes over time prevailed in the agrarian sector

Question 25

vegetation

Answer 25

plants in general, or plants that are found in a particular area:
example: a slight shift in vegetation that only a careful observer

Question 26

burrow

Answer 26

to dig a hole in the ground, especially to live in:
example: beetles had more time to fly from one tree to the next, burrow, and lay their eggs

Question 27

swath

Answer 27

a strip or belt, or a long area of something:
example: Large swaths of pine and spruce

Question 28

ripple

Answer 28

to have or produce a ripple effect : SPREAD
example: the effects of the bark beetle epidemic rippled throughout

Question 29

virtually

Answer 29

almost:
example: spruce ecosystem and affected virtually every population

Question 30

logger

Answer 30

a person who cuts down trees for wood:
example: threatening the livelihoods of loggers