Match the vocabulary words as they are used in these sentences from kurt vonnegut's "the barnhouse effect" to their respective definitions. the definitions appear within parentheses.

at no time were his experiments, as premier slezak
called them, "a [characterized by materialistic pursuits
or concerns] plot to shackle the true democracies
of the world."

"did you give it everything you had? " asked the
general [in a doubtful manner].

many a stouthearted patriot has found himself
[lying face down] in the tangled bunting and
timbers of a smashed reviewing stand.

save for one short, [mysterious] message left in
my mailbox on christmas eve, i have not heard
from him since his disappearance a year and a

words: :

enigmatic
prone
bourgeois
dubiously

When doing a close reading, what is involved in the process of annotating a text?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

2points how is the information in the "during" section of the "volcanoes" page organized?