Unit 0 Academic Vocabulary

to know and say who someone is or what something is

• Identify

• Define

• Evidence

• Relevant

to explain the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.)

• Identify

• Define

• Evidence

• Relevant

something which shows that something else exists or is true

• Support

• Define

• Evidence

• Relevant

relating to a subject in an appropriate way

• Support

• Infer

• Evidence

• Relevant

to provide evidence for (something) : to help show that (something) is true

• Support

• Infer

• Evidence

• Relevant

to form (an opinion) from evidence : to reach (a conclusion) based on known facts

• Support

• Infer

• Evidence

• Analyze

to study (something) closely and carefully : to learn the nature and relationship of the parts of (something) by a close and careful examination

• Support

• Infer

• Analyze

• Conclude

to form or state (an opinion) : to decide (something) after a period of thought or research

• Support

• Infer

• Analyze

• Conclude

Choose the word that completes the sentence

They _____________ that the author was incorrect because his evidence was irrelevant.

• Supported

• Inferred

• Analyzed

• Concluded

Choose the word that completes the sentence

After we _____________ the problem, we knew what steps to complete first.

• Supported

• Inferred

• Analyzed

• Concluded