Academic Vocabulary: Practice Quiz

Best definition of Primary Source?

• The area a group of people originally came from.

• A document or artifact created during a particular historic period

• The piece of information that best describes a historic event

• The plainest/simplest piece of information available

Best definition of Chronology.

• The crumbling or decay of old things.

• To organize things in the order in which they happened.

• Never stopping.

• The highest level of achievement of a civilization.

Best definition of categorize.

• To explain things completely.

• To discuss new ways of doing things.

• To decided what is true and what is false.

• To group like things together.

Best definition of claim

• To take away from others.

• To give up something.

• To state, say or write, something that you believe to be true.

• An area to collect items such as luggage

Best definition of citation

• To explain where you found certain information.

• To dig up old places

• To read about a subject until you understand it.

• To burn things of another group of people

Best definition of paraphrase

• To copy something word for word

• To take someones else's words and restate them using your own choice of words to share the meaning.

• Two groups that are similar

• something that is especially difficult to understand.

Best definition of evidence

• information that proves something correct or incorrect.

• rules to follow.

• the height of something.

• What people do.

Best definition of artifact.

• Something buried in the ground.

• Something that looks a lot like another item.

• An object made by a human.

• Artwork that tells a story

Best definition of commentary

• to try and explain something.

• something that was very common in a society.

• to break something into smaller parts like a comma divides a sentence.

• to dig up clues.

Best definition of contradiction

• To write a detailed story

• when a statement or ideas are the opposite of each other.

• When to or more items show the same basic facts.

• To try and stop something from happening.