Academic Vocabulary Part 1

Showing others how to do something

• Demonstrate

• Reflect

• Compare

• Summarize

Grouping things by characteristics

• Credible

• Compare

• Classify

• Interpret

When I am being evaluated on what I know

• Explain

• Reflect

• Assessed

• Interpret

Convincing someone to change their mind

• Explain

• Demonstrate

• Compare

• Persuade

Describing an idea in detail to make it clear

• Objective

• Explain

• Interpret

• Compare

Being unbiased and neutral

• Classify

• Objective

• Reflect

• Plagiarize

Trying to understand the meaning of something unclear and complicated

• Assessed

• Classify

• Interpret

• Summarize

To think deeply about something

• Explain

• Interpret

• Credible

• Reflect

To use information without giving proper credit

• Summarize

• Plagiarize

• Persuade

• Interpret

Describing how two things are similar

• Summarize

• Compare

• Credible

• Reflect