Question

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​

Answer 1

The word eradicate helps me understand the attempt

Answer 2

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