A. DIRECTIONS: Each word below uses the prefix counter- Circle the word that fits in
each sentence

1. Our initial assault was repulsed and we took up positions behind our
fortifications awaiting a

A. counterargument
B. counterattack

2. We needed to put more weight in the back of the canoe to
load in the front

A. counterbalance
B. counterblow

3. After being falsely accused by my neighbor of stealing his ladder, I leveled a
that he had, in fact, stolen my ladder.

A. counterculture
B. countercharge

4. I was sent to work in
to attempt an infiltration into a foreign
spy outfit

A. counterespionage
B. counterexample

5. The United States increased its atomic arsenal as a
against the
U. S.S. R.

A. counterfactual
B. counterforce

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Why is macbeth both excited and fearful after hearing the witches prediction about his future

How can miscommunication cause a tragedy?