The correcte answer is: "to emphasize the threat posed by Japan"
Rossevelt asked that it be a short speech that did not exceed five hundred words and focused on the essential message to reach as many Americans as possible: that the United States had been attacked by Japan by surprise and without a previous declaration of war and that the United States was willing to defeat him no matter what it cost.
The word "Yet" sounds appropriate but if this is multiple choice I'd like to know the choices.
Answer:
Overexcited and avid
Explanation:
https://www.wordplays.com/crossword-solver/excessively-eager\
