Read the excerpt from Silent Spring.
What kind of tone do the underlined words create?
On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched.
The farmers complained that they were unable to raise
• bewildered
any pigs-the litters were small and
the young survived
threatenina
only a few days. The apple trees were coming into
courageous
bloom but no bees droned among the blossoms, so
•
insignificant
there was no pollination and there would be no fruit.