Question
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT: Vocabulary
Article
Read the following passage. Then, answer the question(s).
In 1788, Great Britain dismantled parts of its overcrowded prison system and shipped convicts to a penal colony in Australia. Through 1868, over 162,000 men and women were exiled overseas, often sailing in unsanitary vessels with horrendous living conditions—a long, difficult voyage. Very few were locked up. After disembarking in Australia, the majority provided hard labor to build the colony. A few educated prisoners were lucky enough to find berths in the bureaucracy of the colony, working at desk jobs. As a reward for good behavior and dogged labor, most convicts were freed early and given a valid “ticket of leave.” This ticket allowed them to return home, but most stayed and many found good-paying jobs and became upstanding citizens of Australia
The word dogged, underlined in the paragraph, refers to the characteristics associated with an animal. Given this information, choose the most likely meaning of dogged in the paragraph.
Responses
persistent
persistent
efficient
efficient
unskilled
unskilled
perilous
Article
Read the following passage. Then, answer the question(s).
In 1788, Great Britain dismantled parts of its overcrowded prison system and shipped convicts to a penal colony in Australia. Through 1868, over 162,000 men and women were exiled overseas, often sailing in unsanitary vessels with horrendous living conditions—a long, difficult voyage. Very few were locked up. After disembarking in Australia, the majority provided hard labor to build the colony. A few educated prisoners were lucky enough to find berths in the bureaucracy of the colony, working at desk jobs. As a reward for good behavior and dogged labor, most convicts were freed early and given a valid “ticket of leave.” This ticket allowed them to return home, but most stayed and many found good-paying jobs and became upstanding citizens of Australia
The word dogged, underlined in the paragraph, refers to the characteristics associated with an animal. Given this information, choose the most likely meaning of dogged in the paragraph.
Responses
persistent
persistent
efficient
efficient
unskilled
unskilled
perilous
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The most likely meaning of "dogged" in the paragraph is **persistent**. The term suggests a determination and steadfastness in the labor performed by the convicts.