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1. Synonyms and Antonyms
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 Sometimes you have to read several
sentences before or after the sentence you're reading to
locate different word which shares similar meaning to
the new words you're reading. In contrary, you may also
identify the word which is just opposite to the meaning
of new word you don't know its meaning. Knowing synonyms
and antonyms is the best way to increase your word bank. |
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 Reading: The insect- eater found in
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A Cuban farmer's discovery of a
strangely ugly creature rooting around his plantation
has erased one rodent's
name from a list of animals
believed to be extinct. The last time someone saw the
small, rate-like
almiqui
was in 1999, a quarter century
after the last previous sighting, so experts feared that
all the almiqui had died. Almiqui look as if they've
been assembled from left-over parts: They have a long,
anteater-like
snout and a narrow, scaly tale. The animal
is covered in long, shaggy brown-to-black hair. It
emerges from underground burrows at night to feed
primarily on spiders and insects, subduing its prey with
a poison secreted from glands above its teeth. |
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 Explanation:
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What is almiqui? Obviously, almiqui
is such an endangered species found in Cuba. Words
related to almiqui are "rodent" and "rate- like". Rat is
a common word for everyone. Rat belongs to the family of
rodents. The apparent part of the body of a rat or
rodent is its sharp teeth. Another world also helps you
to know this animal is "anteater-like". Anteater is made
of two words: "ant" and "eater". So you know almiqui
must look like ¹ÃÆÃ~. Unlike anteaters, almiqui feed on
spiders and insects. So almiqui are ¹ÂÎÃ~. |
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