Question

Read the sentence from paragraph two of the excerpt from My Antonia and answer the question.

Within a week all the
blooming roads had been despoiled, hundreds of miles of yellow sunflowers had been
transformed into brown, rattling, burry stalks.
The Latin root for despoiled is despoliare which means to

A damage willfully
B ruin forcefully
C hurt badly
D strip entirely

Answer 1

i’m pretty sure it’s C.

Answer 2

the answer is C; Hurt Badly

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