Vocabulary Multiple Choice Quiz 8th grade AIR

to examine something carefully and with focus

• Apply

• Argument

• Analyze

• Cite

to connect something you know or can do to another situation

• Apply

• Compare

• Clarify

• Evaluate

right or correct in a particular situation or context

• Plagiarize

• Appropriate

• Paraphrase

• Relevant

an idea supported by evidence or reasoning

• Passage

• Counterclaim

• Argument

• Mood

To evaluate or judge the value of something.

• Assess

• Synthesize

• Summarize

• Rank

The people who will read or listen to a text or speech.

• Source

• Audience

• Phrase

• Claim

to mention or quote as an example to support an idea, claim, or opinion

• Cite

• Compare

• Develop

• Compose

to state a position that may go against the positions of others stand

• Claim

• Closure

• Critique

• Design

To make something easier to understand.

• Assess

• Clarify

• Evaluate

• Define

The conclusion or resolution of an idea or story.

• Critique

• Passage

• Closure

• Theme