Semester Exam Vocabulary Review

to move forward or make progress

• advance
• compare
• contradict / contradictory
• demonstrate

to put things together to see how they are the same

• compare
• contradict / contradictory
• demonstrate
• describe

to disagree; to say the opposite.

• contradict / contradictory
• demonstrate
• describe
• dialogue

to show clearly

• demonstrate
• describe
• dialogue
• discuss

Tell the facts, details

• describe
• dialogue
• discuss
• emphasize

Conversation between characters

• dialogue
• discuss
• emphasize
• evidence

to talk about

• discuss
• emphasize
• evidence
• example

To give special attention to something, to stress

• emphasize
• evidence
• example
• excerpt

facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

• evidence
• example
• excerpt
• explain

an individual instance taken to be representative of a general pattern

• example
• excerpt
• explain
• help