This TextGenome report provides word activities for each reading, to help students practice vocabulary.
Use the words on the left to complete the sentences on the right.
organisms A different kind of microorganism
causes each kind of infectious disease.
microorganisms
How are you like the organisms
around you?
microorganism
Thousands of harmful microorganisms
have reached Ted during the day.
Use one of the words from the right column to find a synonym to each word in the left column.
evolve = develop
factor
develop
adaptation = adjustment
adjustment
gene = factor
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survivors For life survival
by feeding on other life.
survive
Ben went on in and gently lowered the survivor
down while his mother
surviving
bent over, pulling the damp coat away from the girl's head, then opening the rest
survival
like an envelope.
survived
survivor The order apoda contains the few survives legless amphibians of the
survives tropics.
In this chapter you will learn about body parts and activities that help other living
things to survive
.
They advised the emperor to put on a suit made of the cloth for the big
process
on sunday.
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environment = surroundings
surroundings
necessary
process = work
work
natural = necessary
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naturalistic Zia slips are white or yellow-buff with varied designs in black, red, or yellow:
natural naturalistic
deer, spirals enclosing leaf sprays, slender stylized birds.
naturally
In this guide, Jim Arnosky, an artist and naturalist
, reveals his secrets of
nature
watching wildlife.
naturalized
naturalist His eyes burned with unnatural
fire: but that might have been on account of
unnatural his feverish cold.
The constitution of the United States says that "all persons born or
" naturalized
" in the United States, and subject to the "jurisdiction" thereof,
are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they "reside"."
Natural
resources also helped America become a great country.
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selectivity You can find these and other silly things in the next three selections .
selection
For example, the parties came up with a system for selective
candidates
selecting
for the presidency (the national nominating convention.)
selective
selections In other words, the selective
alternative is your decision.
selected
John Castle works for Pat's as an order selection
.
selector
They take a pastel felt-tip pen and run it through a few sentences here and there,
often with no selection , and pretend that that constitutes studying.
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reproduce But the highly reproduction
part of the Soviet Union is only slightly, if any,
reproduction larger than the highly reproduction
part of the United States.
productive
All living things reproduce
, we say.
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selection = number
number
make
complex = hard
hard
produce = make
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