Instruction words

Answer

• find out , establish, decide or settle

• discuss both sides of an issue in order to reach your opinion

• reply, respond or react to a question

• make something clear or easy to understand

Comment

• explain how things are different/dissimilar

• discuss both

  sides of an issue in order to reach your opinion

• name or classify something

• offer your remark, opinion or criticism

Depict

• explain or give a detailed account of something in order to paint a picture in the mind of the reader

• 
  

  explain by means of examples

• portray or describe

• investigate something

  in order to learn about it.

Consider

• think about

  carefully, contemplate, pay attention to

• give your

  particular viewpoint or understanding of something

• point out, make known

• explain how things are different/dissimilar

Discuss

• impart, transmit or communicate ideas and information

• talk or write about, debate the issues, introduce alternative viewpoints

• justify or

  give reasons for your answer

• make something

  clear or easy to understand, provide reasons or explanations

Indicate

• point out, make known

• justify or give reasons for your answer

• offer your remark, opinion or criticism

• find out, establish, decide or settle

Interpret

• find out, establish, decide or settle

• name or classify something

• think about

  carefully, contemplate, pay attention to

• give your particular viewpoint or understanding of something

Explore

• back up your answer/opinion with reasons, evidence or examples

• repeat in inverted commas the exact words that someone else has said or written.

• investigate something in order to learn about it

• support your position with facts or evidence

Substantiate

• tell or narrate/show the connection between various aspects

• support or add weight to your answer with facts, reasons and opinions

• explain by means of examples

• portray or describe

Quote

• back up your

  answer/opinion with reasons, evidence or examples

• demonstrate the truth by evidence or argument

• investigate something in order to learn about it.

• repeat in inverted commas the exact words that someone else has said or written.