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Vocabulary: Reading Comprehension Lesson 4

File No.:RCNTS16006107

Word

Meaning

Barrier

anything built or serving to bar passage, as a railing, fence

Coral

the hard, variously colored, calcareous skeleton secreted by certain marine polyps.

Dugong

an herbivorous, aquatic mammal

Eels

any of numerous elongated, snakelike marine or freshwater fishes

Evidence

that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof

Exception

something excepted; an instance or case not conforming to the general rule

Intricate

having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved

Limestone

a sedimentary rock consisting predominantly of calcium carbonate, varieties of which are

formed from the skeletons of marine microorganisms and coral

Mollusk

any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one

Moray

any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family

Penguins

any of several flightless, aquatic birds

Polyp

a sedentary type of animal form characterized by a more or less fixed base, columnar body

Reefs

a ridge of rocks or sand, often of coral debris, at or near the surface of the water

Skeleton

the bones of a human or an animal considered as a whole, together forming the framework of
the body

Species

the major subdivision of a genus or subgenus, regarded as the basic category of biological
classification

Techniques

the manner and ability with which an artist, writer, dancer, athlete

Thorns

a sharp excrescence on a plant, especially a sharp-pointed aborted branch

Thrive

to prosper; be fortunate or successful

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