Word List

• n. An automobile is a car.
  The first automobiles were very different from the ones that exist today.
• n. A candidate is a person who is competing to win something such as a job.
  Alice is the best candidate for the job.
• adj. If something is confidential, it must be kept secret.
  The information from the meeting is confidential.
• adj. If something is corporate, it is related to a large business.
  Tom enjoys working in the corporate world.
• v. To enhance something is to make it better.
  Amy's blue shirt really enhances the color of her eyes.
• n. An era is a period of time that has something special about it.
  During the medieval era, knights wore protective armor.
• n. A guideline is a rule about how to do something.
  Before they began the project, the teacher gave them some guidelines.
• v. To incorporate is to add something to another thing.
  I decided to incorporate a new ingredient into my cake recipe.
• v. To interact is to talk to or do something with another person.
  The kids began to interact when the adults left the room.
• n. An interval is the time between two things happening.
  Tony rested for brief intervals while he worked in the yard.
• adj. If something is mobile, it can be moved easily.
  Mobile phones are convenient because you can use them anywhere.
• v. To modify something is to change it a little bit.
  I modified my outfit by adding a belt to it.
• adj. If two things are parallel, they are the same distance away from each other (along their entire length).
  There are two yellow parallel lines dividing both sides of traffic.
• n. A phenomenon is something that can be seen as it is happening.
  I thought the lights were a strange phenomenon, but they were just shooting stars.
• v. To pollute means to make air, water, or land dirty, unclean, or foul.
  The careless factory polluted the river with chemicals.
• v. To ridicule is to make fun of something in a mean way.
  The other students ridicule Peter's foreign accent.
• adj. If something is solar, it is related to the sun.
  Using solar energy is good for the environment.
• n. A territory is a piece of land that belongs to a country but isn't a state.
  Gibraltar is a territory of Great Britain.
• n. A tournament is a competition, usually with many people participating.
  My dad is playing in a golf tournament tomorrow.
• n. Transportation is any type of vehicle that can carry people or things.
  I don't have a car, so my normal transportation is the train.

Exercise

A ‣ Write the word that best fits each blank.

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

C ‣ Circle the answer that best fits the question.

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.