Exterminate ( page 163 ).
Questions.
1. What is the derivation, and what is the original meaning of exterminate? eradicate? extirpate? 2. To what are these words severally applied?
Examples.
Since the building of the Pacific railroads in the United States, the buffalo has been quite ——.
The evil of intemperance is one exceedingly difficult to ——.
No inveterate improver should ever tempt me to —— the dandelions from the green carpet of my lawn.