Vocabulary Quiz

-Skimming is quick reading for general ideas
-Scanning is also quick reading but, when you scan, you ar looking fo rinformaiton about a
question you want to answer
-Drawing inferences : You have begun to note that some of the ideas and points of view that
were not mentioned were, however, implied by the author. It is the beginning of
"critical reading" which will be the focus of the nex t activity.
-Critical Reading : when we read critically, we draw conclusions and make judgement about the
reading
- Nonprose writing : consists of disconnected words and numbers instead of the sendteces and
paragraphs you usually learn to read.
- Efficient reading : requires the use of various problem-solving skills
- Context Clues : exercise are designed to help youimprove your ability to quess the meaning of
unfamiliar words by using context clues.
- I removed the (book ,magazine, paper, newspaper) from the self and began to read.
- Harvey is a thief ; he would (stal, take, rob) the gold from his grandmother's teeth and not feel
quilty
- Our uncle was a (noman, roamer, traveler, drifter, wanderer), an incurable wanderer who nevr
could stay in one place.
- Unlike his brother, who is truly a handsome person, Hogartty is quite (ugly, homely, plain).
- The Asian (gibbon, monkey, chimp, ape), like other apes, is specially adapted for life in trees.
- But surely everyone knows tha tif yo step on an egg, it will (break).
- Mary got a new (car) for her birthday. It is a sports model, red, with white interior and bucket
seats
- Pounce : n.v. attack, jump
1. To spring or swoop with intent to seize someone or something: a cat that pounced on a
mouse; watched the falcon pounce on the baby rabbit.
2. To attack suddenly: irregular troops who pounced on the convoy at a narrow pass; a
colleague who pounced on me because of a mistake in my report.
3. To seize something swiftly and eagerly: pounce on an opportunity.
- adapt : adjust
- egret : Any of several usually white herons of the genera Bubulcus, Casmerodius, Egretta, and
related genera, characteristically having long, showy, drooping plumes during the breeding
season.
- inveigh against : To give vent to angry disapproval; protest vehemently.
- slither
- pelt : throw
- kinesics
- gregarious : social
- ravenous : extremly hungry, starving
- salvage : rescue
- gloze : vi. to minimize
- inhale
- import
- collaborate
- inscription - scarving :
1. The act or an instance of inscribing.
2. Something, such as the wording on a coin, medal, monument, or seal, that is inscribed.
3. Something, such as a stone or metal tablet, that is inscribed.
4. An enrollment or a registration of names.
- reflection : n.
1. The change in direction of a wave, such as a light or sound wave, away from a boundary the wave encounters. 2. Something, such as sound, light, or heat, that is reflected.
- dictate
- invisible : not ablel to be seen