Business and Personal Law

Chapter 12: Credit Protection and Bankruptcy

Flex Your Reading

The entire BusinessWeek article "A Business Rife with Bad Guys" by Amy Borrus can be found by clicking on the link below:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_28/b3942117_mz070.htm?chan=search

There are several strategies you can use to help fine tune your reading skills. For this article, work on vocabulary development. See if you can figure out the meaning of these words, found in the article, by looking at the context. Predict the possible meaning. Then, use the dictionary to look up the word. Were your predictions correct?

Merriam-Webster provides an online dictionary.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm

Dictionary.com offers word definitions, synonyms and writing resources.
http://dictionary.reference.com/

FindLaw offers an online searchable dictionary.
http://dictionary.lp.findlaw.com/

Nolo offers an online searchable dictionary.
http://www.nolo.com/glossary.cfm

Law.com provides a searchable dictionary by legal term, definition, or letter of the alphabet.
http://dictionary.law.com/