Academic Vocabulary test

What is your name?

To make a judgement

• evaluate
• compare
• contrast
• identify
• interpret

Note the difference beetween two or more things

• contrast
• compare
• evaluate
• identify
• interpret

Tell what will happen next

• predict
• compare
• contrast
• evaluate
• identify

Note the similarity or likeness between two or more things

• compare
• contrast
• evaluate
• identify
• interpret

Find meaning from information and clues: read between the lines.

• interpret
• compare
• contrast
• evaluate
• identify

To express the most important components of something in a concise manner.

• summarize
• compare
• contrast
• evaluate
• identify

To give the name or characteristics of something.

• identify
• compare
• contrast
• evaluate
• interpret

Clarify

• to come to a decision based on information presented
• to break down into parts and examine closely
• point out fact or details about something
• to make something easier to understand by giving more details

Analyze

• to come to a decision based on information presented
• to break down into parts and examine closely
• point out fact or details about something
• to make something easier to understand by giving more details