11) Match the word that best completes each sentence. You may need to change the tense of a verb. (please fill in the numbers with one of the letters)

a) docile
b) dogmatic
c) efficacious
d) flaunted
e) gibed
f) duplicity
g) flaccid

1) The principal was veryabout the closed lunch policy and would not change his mind.

2) Many people resented Trina for receiving the award because sheit exuberantly.

3) After we returned from our week-long vacation, we found that our plants had becomeand droopy.

4) The medicine the doctor gave me was not; in fact, it made me feel worse.

5) The employer'sprompted many workers to quit their jobs because they felt they could not trust him.

6) The bully unceasinglythe newcomer until he fled the playground in tears.

7) The new employee provedas she eagerly learned new skills and adapted to the environment of the office without any problems.

[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