Question

Excerpt from Incredible Oceans Roberto Barerra (1) The five major oceans—the Arctic, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Pacific, and the Southern, which are then broken down into smaller seas—provide food for humans and animals, entice explorers, enable trade, and affect the climate and environment the world over. In this sentence from paragraph 1, the word entice means A) amaze. B) attract. C) exhaust. D) feed.

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

B) Attract

The word entice by its own means "to attract artfully or adroitly or by arousing hope or desire". In this case given the context, they refer the smaller seas are very useful not only for humans, but for animals and even for the environment. They make it sound "desirable" for an explorer's point of view.

Answer 2

The correct answer is: B) Attract.

To entice means to seduce, to capture one's attention, to allure. In this excerpt from Incredible Oceans, Roberto Barrera explains the many uses the oceans have, one of them being the power to attract explorers and lure them into sailing to discover things on their own.