The word evacuation is formed by adding the Latin suffix -tion to evacuate. Choose the answer that best shows the meanings of evacuation and evacuate. Base your answer on your knowledge of -tion. A. evacuate: "the act of emptying out" / evacuation: "to empty out"
B. evacuate: "to empty out" / evacuation: "the act of emptying out"
C. evacuate: "being empty" / evacuation: "the act of emptying out"
D. evacuate: "being empty" / evacuation: "to empty out"

Based on our knowledge of the suffix -tion, the best option is:

B. evacuate: "to empty out" / evacuation: "the act of emptying out"

Explanation:

A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change it into a new word by altering its meaning. The suffix -tion is added to a verb to indicate a process, a state, an action, or a result. Thus, if we know the meaning of "evacuate", we can easily infer the meaning of "evacuation". To evacuate means to remove something or someone from a place or, simply put, to empty a place out. Thus, "evacuation" is the act of emptying out. With that in mind, we can choose letter B as the best option.

B. evacuate: "to empty out" / evacuation: "the act of emptying out"

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)