Over the years, rhubarb has lost the popularity it once enjoyed. In the 1800s, there were 200 growers of rhubarb in England, and they supplied 90 percent of the world’s rhubarb. Today, only about a handful of farmers left that grow rhubarb using the same “forcing” method to grow rhubarb speedily and raucously.
The Latin root racco, meaning “a roar,” helps the reader understand that the word raucously in paragraph 7 means—
Responses
A quicklyquickly
B disorderlydisorderly
C noisilynoisily
D directly