The correct answer is D) They lend the excerpt an urgent tone.
The statement that best describes the impact of the words "prosecution," "espionage," and "sabotage" is "They lend the excerpt an urgent tone."
We are referring to a part of the text of President Roosevelt´s executive order N.- 9066. The excerpt says: "Whereas the prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, premises, and utilities..."
In President Roosevelt´s executive order N.- 9066 of February 19, 1942, he authorizes the relocation of Japanese people that lived in the Pacific Coast, after the attack of Pearl Harbor.