Warning: The Asian longhorned beetle has invaded the United States! A wood-boring beetle, it could decimate our forests. This super-pest is indigenous to China and other Asian countries. Since the beetle's detection in the United States, government agencies have attempted to eradicate it. Who could have figured that a small bug could make so much trouble? t Which definition helps you understand the meaning of attempt? 2 What part of speech is the word attempt as used in the passage? 3 Which definition helps you understand the meaning of figured? 4 Use Use your dictionary to find the meanings and parts of speech of decimate, indigenous, and eradicate as they are used in the passage. Write your answers on a separate piece of paper. 247​

The word eradicate helps me understand the attempt

attempt means to try. And the evidence is: Because it's still and the number of them hasn't diminished in the United States (as states the passage), when they say attempt, it means that it's still there.

Figured means thought or think. The evidence? :  Since the bug makes so much trouble and most people think that such a small bug couldn't create that much trouble, it shows that figure means to think as in "Who could have thought that a small bug could make so much trouble?"

Decimate: to kill/destroy

Indigenous: clever

Eradicate: destroy completely; put an end to

if i was falling raindrop:

1. land safely (pretty sure that’s a tough one)

2. wished that time slowed down

3. a beautiful ending

in the poem young by anne sexton and in the poem hanging fire by audre lorde, they both talk about being alone in their childhood. in young it talks about how she lived in a big house with 4 garages and how she layed in the grass at night. in hanging fire it talks about how she didnt like her body how she was scared she was going to die and her mom would be in the room with the door closed and she talks about how she had to learn to dance for the next party and how her room was too small. she also talks about (hanging fire) how she was alone and abanded and how people never toke her side and see how she truly feels about the world around her. in both poems they talk about when they were younger. both poems explain the side of a happy alone rich girls life in young and in hanging fire it talks about a girls who is poor and doesnt like her body..