Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

118 practice makes perfect Advanced English Reading and Comprehension

Vocabulary

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EXERCISE

Thematic vocabulary List 10 words related to energy.

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EXERCISE

Academic vocabularyUsing a dictionary, complete the following chart with the

correct part of speech and deinition of each of the academic words in the reading text.

If a word has multiple meanings, match the deinition to the context in which the word

is used in the text.

Word Part of speech Deinition

1. albeit


2. alternative


3. capacity


4. concentration


5. constitute


6. distribute


7. equivalent


8. incentive


9. intense


10. ofset


11. output


12. policy


13. principal


14. prohibitive


15. promote


16. recover