Academic Vocabulary Test Review

Based on personal observation, case study report or investigation.

• anecdotal
• compose
• refute
• empirical

A feeling or opinion, especially one that is preconceived; showing favoritism

• excerpt
• bias
• cite
• segue

To create, organize

• compose
• annotate
• infer
• explicate

To write notes in the margins of a text

• cite
• anecdotal
• claim
• annotate

If only the Prologue to Romeo and Juliet appears on the test, this student is reading a/an:

• excerpt from the larger text
• a claim made by Shakespeare
• a paragraph written by another student
• an analogy composed by Shakespeare

To prove to be false; untrue

• bias
• explicate
• refute
• infer

In writing, transition words or phrase help with this...

• seguing from one idea to the next
• annotating passages
• explicating ideas
• inferring from one idea to the next

Provable by experience or experiment; not theory

• annotated data
• anecdotal evidence
• empirical data
• paraphrased research

To express with clarity

• articulate
• annotate
• cite
• analogy

This type of writing explains

• expository
• explication
• summative
• paraphrased