Academic Vocabulary

Academic Vocabulary

1. Analyze - Break apart, Think through, Break into pieces 

2. Infer - Read between the lines, Predict Figure it out, What are they trying to say? 

3. Evaluate - Judge, assess, Solve, - Examine, Test for the truth “1 good & 1 bad”

4. Formulate - Create, Make a plan, Develop

5. Describe - Tell all about, Show me, List details

6. Support - Back up with details, Provide reasons, Give examples

7. Explain - Tell how, Tell all about, Tell what, & why

8.Summarize - Give me the short version, Tell main parts 

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9. Compare - All the ways they are alike, or the Same 

10. Contrast - All the ways they are different, Opposites

11. Predict - Educated Guess, What will happen next?, Look into future 

12. Interpret - If you interpret something, you figure out what you think it means. 

Multiple Choice

If I am comparing two different cars, what am I doing?

• Telling how the cars are similar

• Telling how the cars are similar yet different

• Telling how the cars are different

• Breaking into the dealership at night wearing a pair of Jordans and fleeing to Mexico with both cars.

Multiple Choice

Using context clues in this sentence "Simply put academic vocabulary is language that is “used to acquire a new or deeper understanding of content" acquire most likely means

• lose

• show

• gain

• forget

Multiple Choice

If I am contrasting Beyoncé and Mrs. Grzadzielewski I am..

• explaining how the two are similar yet different

• explaining how the two are different

• explaining how the two are similar

• changing the filter on my snap to make sure they both look alike

Multiple Choice

What does describe mean?

• explain

• give an account in an open-ended response in which all important details are addressed

• relate to personal experience

• give an account in words of (someone or something), including all the relevant characteristics, qualities, or events

Multiple Choice

The teacher evaluated Henry's essay using the rubric.

Which word would best replace the word in blue?

• neglect

• liked

• graded

• assess

Multiple Choice

Which word is a synonym for explain?

• analyze

• define

• conceal

• clarify

Multiple Choice

Inferring means..

• researching

• reading between the lines

• guessing

• thinking

Multiple Choice

What does interpret mean?

• what you think it means

• what it means

• how it sounds

• decide which answer is valid

Multiple Choice

If Julie predicts the outcome of the presidential election, she is...

• someone who is just like 'The Long Island Medium'

• making an educated guess about the future

• accurately tell what is going to happen

• explain the future

Multiple Choice

. What does it mean to analyze?

• break down into parts and explain the parts

• provide an example

• give more details about a term's origin

• realize that Anna lies

Multiple Choice

To summarize means to..

• give a brief statement of the main points of something

• capture a flying squirrel in a McDonald's cup

• memorize the main points of an argument

• rewrite a section of text in complete sentences