Question

caring lara

1. lara was at peter’s house because she never broke a promise. she wanted to be with her father who was home with a fever, but she had promised the levins that she would watch peter and his sister leah. she needed the money for all the scholarship applications she was sending out. as mrs. levin prepared to leave, peter clung to her and his dangling feet knocked over a potted plant. lara cleaned up the dirt and put the decimated plant with other dying houseplants in the garden before she walked in.
2. “the meds are all the bottom of the cabinet. you had one dose right before i left, so you need another one at 4.” lara instructed her father on the phone. “i will call you in a bit to

the latin word decimus, meaning “tenth,” helps the reader understand that the word decimated in paragraph 1 means
a dried like brown plants.
b destroyed by a tenth.
c houseplants missing pots.
d trail of destruction.

Explanation:

The Latin root "decimus" means "tenth". The context of the plant being "decimated" alongside "other dying houseplants" implies partial destruction related to a tenth, matching option B.

Answer:

B. destroyed by a tenth.