Answer:
Washington was frustrated because he didn’t have access to his files because they were abandoned in boarded up houses.
Explanation:
Panicked clerks left the papers in boarded up houses during the plague. No one was sure of where they were and they were unwilling to risk their lives going house to house looking for them during a plague.
I believe the closest antonym would be worsen
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