Word List

• v. To adapt means to change in order to deal with a new situation.
  When he went to the new town, he had to adapt to all the weather changes.
• adj. Biological describes the process of life and living things.
  In science class, we learned about the biological process of bacterial growth.
• adj. When something is cellular, it relates to the cells of animals or plants.
  She used a microscope to see the activity at a cellular level.
• adj. When people are dynamic, they are lively and have creative ideas.
  The new, dynamic employee came up with a good way to juggle his workload.
• n. A fantasy is a pleasant situation that people think about but is unlikely to happen.
  Becoming an astronaut is a fantasy shared by many children.
• n. Heredity is the process of passing on features from parents to children.
  The boy's face is similar to his father's because of heredity.
• adj. When something is internal, it exists or happens inside a person, object, or place.
  We removed the outer case to reveal the computer's internal wires.
• adj. When something is minimal, it is very small.
  My lazy husband does a minimal amount of work around the house.
• n. A pioneer is a person who is the first to discover or be involved in something.
  He was a pioneer of computer programming.
• v. To prescribe medicine means to tell someone to take it.
  When I was sick, the doctor prescribed flu medicine for me to take.
• adj. When things are respective, they relate separately to each person just mentioned.
  The boxers were told to return to their respective corners.
• adj. When rules or systems are rigid, they are severe because they cannot be changed.
  Societies often have rigid rules about the way that people are supposed to act.
• n. A sequence is a number of events or things that come one after another.
  The dominos fell in a sequence of one after another.
• adj. Things which are similar are almost the same.
  I have had a similar experience to the one you described.
• v. To substitute something or someone means to have them take the place of another.
  When I ran out of juice, I had to substitute water to drink in the morning.
• n. A surgeon is a doctor who is trained to do surgery.
  The surgeon operated on the old man's heart.
• n. Therapy is treatment for a particular physical or mental illness or condition.
  After she broke her legs, she used physical therapy to learn how to walk again.
• v. To transfer something means to move it from one place to another.
  The family transferred the groceries from the shopping cart to the car.
• n. A transition is a process where there is a change from one form to another.
  The weather gets colder during the transition from summer to autumn.
• n. A transplant is an operation in which a damaged part of one's body is replaced.
  The sick child needed a heart transplant to live.

Exercise

A ‣ Circle the answer that best fits the question.

B ‣ Write a word that is similar in meaning to the underlined part.

C ‣ Circle the two words that are opposites in each group.

D ‣ Write the word that best fits each sentence.

Reading Comprehension

Part A: Mark each statement T for true or F for false. Rewrite the false statements to make them true.

Part B: Answer the questions.