Skills? I wouldn't say skills, but you think about what you red and write, you use what you know from your brain to basically understand words in a book or even when you write them down, etc. If this doesn't help, look up all the skills of reading and writing on google =)
The predicate adjective here is "refreshing".
A predicate adjective is the word that modifies the subject of a sentence (and is an adjective). So for example subject is x, or subject looks x with the x as the predicate adjective
Weird question, but is this scientifically proven lol
1.) a rice dish
2.) a garment worn by indian women
3.) father
4.) liquid or clarified butter
5.) a red dye
A word that a 6th grader won't know is: hypotenuse