Question

Please answer quickly!! Read the following lines from "The Human Drift and define the words in bold. Use context clues to determine the meanings

1. These migratory movements of peoples have been called drifts, and the word is apposite
2. Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions
3. Perhaps most amazing has been the South Sea Drift Blind, fortuitous, precarious as no other drift has been

Answer 1

Apposite- relevant, applicable

Voracious- extreme appetite or hunger

Fortuitous- random/by chance,

Precarious- uncertain/dangerous

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

1. These migratory movements of peoples have been called drifts, and the word is apposite.

Apposite: is an adjective that means suitable or to the point.

2. Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions.

Voracious: is an adjective that means insatiable, that the person or animal eats a lot.

3. Perhaps most amazing has been the South Sea Drift Blind, fortuitous, precarious as no other drift has been

Fortuitous: is an adjective that means that something that was not planned happened. It happened by chance.

Step-by-step explanation:

All the words are adjectives that are modifying a noun.

We can deduce the meaning of the word apposite because it refers to the name that migratory movement has, and if we think about drift, we conclude that apposite means suitable.

We can know the meaning of voracious mainly because it is with hungry, and it is referring to strong breeds, which is a word that can be related to ingesting large quantities of food.

We can know what fortuitous means by analyzing the context where it says that it was amazing and as no other drift has been. It happened by chance, was unpredictable and astonishing.