Dent Inventors Reading Vocabulary

What is a patent?

• a pat on the back

• permission to invent something

• government license given to an inventor for his/her invention

• a problem

What is a telegraph?

• a telephone

• a typewriter

• a machine that received and sent messages using electrical signals

  and wires

• a kind of math graph

What is a phonograph?

• a phone

• a machine that reproduces sound by means of a needle in contact with a grooved rotating disk

• a kind of math graph

• a picture

What does aquatic refer to?

• water

• air

• color of aqua

• fire

What does spearheading mean?

• leading

• spearing

• a funny head

• a funny spear

What does agriculture mean?

• a kind of culture

• farming

• annoying

• a person who is tall

What does optimistic mean?

• expecting a terrible outcome

• expecting a favorable outcome

• expecting no outcome

• not really expecting anything

What is botany?

• scientific study of footballs

• scientific study of boys

• scientific study of plants

• scientific study of basketballs

What does the word prestigious mean?

• highly respected

• ignored

• looked down on

• perfect

What does the word indifference mean?

• lack of difference

• lack of interest

• lack of work

• lack of play