If you read the vocab section at the beginning before you start reading, you will know what any of the words mean from the list, while reading the text.
So, let's say your vocab section has the word "joyous", and it's definition "very happy". When you read this before reading your text, you will not have to wonder what "joyous" means.
Does that make sense?
Also, put this into your own words, so you get full points.
"Rhetoric is the art of effective, persuasive speaking or writing."
Answer:
Unlike Bernard, he is well liked and respected. Though he and Bernard share a dislike of the World State, Helmholtz condemns it for radically different reasons. Bernard dislikes the State because he is too weak to fit the social position he has been assigned; Helmholtz because he is too strong.