Long Reading - Rich People and Climate Change

Rich people don't just have bigger bank balances and more lavish lifestyles than the rest of us -- they also have bigger carbon footprints.

Reviewing Studied Words

(Examples for Recently Studied Words)

 

(1) The football game was replete with excitement and great plays.

(2) The eminent author received the Nobel Prize for literature.

(3) My cousin is so steeped in schoolwork that his friends call him a bookworm. ( = soaked, drenched, saturated)

(4) After skiing, I find that I have a voracious appetite.

(5) Modern warfare often results in the indiscriminate killing of combatants and innocent civilians alike.

 

combatant: someone who fights in a war

 

(6) The mayor refused to prognosticate as to his margin of victory in the election.

(7) The time is approaching when human workers may be replaced by automatons.

(8) A clever salesman will always ask a matron if her mother is at home.

(9) The western plains used to abound with bison before those animals were slaughtered by settlers.

(10) The man may be freed from backbreaking labor by the products of scientific technology.

 

In the following image, you can see a bison.

backbreaking: physically difficult and makes you very tired

Daily 5 New Word

 

abound: (verb) to exist in very large numbers

(Example)

(1) Rumors abound as to the reasons for his resignation.

(2) Examples of this abound her book.

(3) The worlds of scinece-fiction abound with wonders.

Daily 5 New Word

 

voracious: (Adjective) having an extremely strong desire to do or have a lot of something

(Collocations)

(1) appetite ... voracious

(2) read voraciously

(3) voracious appetites

(4) voracious appetite

(Adverb) voraciously