Word List

• n. An artery is a tube that takes blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
  Eating healthily keeps your arteries clean so blood can flow with ease.
• n. Deterioration is the act of becoming worse.
  The lack of care led to the deterioration of the house.
• adj. If things or people are elusive, they are hard to find.
  The elusive fish only came out at night.
• v. When you ensure something, you make sure it happens.
  Saving now will ensure we have enough money for our retirement.
• v. To induce something means to make it happen.
  Running without good shoes may induce leg pain.
• adj. If two things are inseparable, they can't be separated.
  Denise and Diana have been inseparable since they first met.
• adj. If something is invalid, it is not correct.
  The way to winning debates is to avoid invalid arguments.
• v. To magnify something means to make it look bigger than it really is.
  Astronomers use telescopes to magnify faraway stars.
• n. The mainstream is what is considered normal and accepted by most people.
  Before punk rock music became part of the mainstream, only a few people liked it.
• n. A microbe is a very small living thing that often makes people sick.
  The first step in curing a disease is finding the microbe that causes it.
• adj. A minor problem is a very small and unimportant problem.
  This is a minor problem.
• adj. If something is negligible, it is extremely small and not important.
  The amount she owed was negligible. It was less than ten cents.
• n. Paralysis is the loss of the ability to move all or part of your body.
  His paralysis meant that he had to use a wheelchair to get around.
• n. A pest is an animal or insect that hurts plants or food.
  Many farmers put up scarecrows to keep pests off their corn.
• v. To prevail means to be accepted or very common.
  Unfortunately, injustice still prevails in the country's court system.
• n. When you are in pursuit of something, you are chasing it.
  The pursuit of happiness is a basic human right.
• v. To rupture means to tear or burst open.
  Sarah put too much water into the balloon, and it ruptured.
• adj. If things or people are savage, they are very violent or cruel.
  Wild animals are very savage when defending their babies.
• v. To stun someone means to make them unable to speak due to surprise or shock.
  Tim fell off the swing and was too stunned to cry.
• adj. If one is susceptible to something like a disease, they are easily harmed by it.
  Not eating enough vegetables makes you more susceptible to getting sick.

Exercise

A ‣ Circle the one that is similar in meaning to the given word.

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

C ‣ Circle the one that is opposite in meaning to the given word.

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.