ACT Aspire Vocabulary Words

To study something closely or bring out deeper meaning or structure

• cause and effect

• analyze

• demonstrate

a way of explaining the reason why events occur

• compare

• cause and effect

• classify

events that are arranged in the order in which they happened

• sequence/chronological order

• evidence

• summarize

all the ways two things are alike

• contrast

• compare

• classify

to show differences

• contrast

• compare

• classify

to show or prove something using an example

• analyze

• infer

• demonstrate

collected body of data from observations, research, and/or experiments

• evidence

• summarize

• cause and effect

give a brief statement of the main points of (something)

• summarize

• analyze

• contrast

conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements

• classify

• analyze

• infer

arrange ( a group of people or things) in classes or categories according to shared qualities or characteristics

• sequence

• classify

• cause and effect