Grade 11-AP Seminar Vocabulary Quiz

a process for seeking truth, information, or knowledge through a study, research investigation, or artistic endeavor/work

• Assumption

• Concession

• Inquiry

• Claim

a belief regarded as true and often unstated

• Assumption

• Bias

• Fallacy

• Lens

A personal opinion, belief or value that may influence one’s judgment, perspective, or claim

• Fallacy

• Lens

• Thesis

• Bias

Cohesion between the focus of inquiry, the method of collecting information, the analysis of information, and the conclusions made to increase understanding of that focus

• Evidence

• Concession

• Credibility

• Alignment

Issue involving many facets or perspectives that must be understood in order to address it

• Counterargument

• Complex Issue

• Inquiry

• Limitation

A boundary or point at which an argument or generalization is no longer valid

• Limitation

• Fallacy

• Counterargument

• Plagiarism

The degree to which a source is believable and trustworthy

• Perspective

• Credibility

• Limitation

• Concession

Failure to acknowledge, attribute, and/or cite any ideas or evidence taken from another source

• Plagiarism

• Limitation

• Bias

• Credibility

A claim or position on an issue put forward and supported by evidence


• Claim

• Thesis

• Issue

• Assumption

a filter through which an issue or topic is considered or examined


• Bias

• Assumption

• Lens

• Claim