Academic Vocabulary

Theme

• the main idea

• the key details

• the message or lesson learned

• the same thing as a meme

infer

• what the passage is mostly about

• to compare and contrast

• cause and effect

• to draw a conclusion about the text using the text and information you already know.

compare

• to find similarities between two things

• to find differences between two things

• to draw conclusions

• to find the main idea

contrast

• to find similarities between two things

• to find differences between two things

• the main idea

• to make an inference

contradict

• to mention something or someone

• person place or thing

• to say the opposite of something

• to find the similarities between two things

refer

• to mention

• to infer

• to say the opposite of

• to find similarities

claim

• to find differences between two things

• to find the main idea

• something someone says is true

• the right answer