Prompt Vocabulary Quiz

To analyze and make reasoned judgment about something.

• Trace

• Analyze

• Discuss

• Criticize

To give a definition or describe how something functions.

• Contrast

• Idenitify

• Criticize

• Explain

To examine two or more things and show their differences.

• Enumerate

• Illustrate

• Contrast

• Compare

To give the physical or non-physical qualities or characteristics of something.

• Summarize

• Describe

• Evaluate

• Prove

To give the main points or highlights of an event or story.

• Explain

• Summarize

• Identify

• Persuade

To urge or influence the audience to embrace your point of view.

• State

• Persuade

• Discuss

• Analyze

To separate something into parts and discuss, examine, or interpret each part.

• Analyze

• Trace

• State

• Define

To give a meaning of a term or concept.

• Criticize

• Discuss

• Define

• Classify

To put something into a category with things of a similar type.

• Compare

• Prove

• Classify

• Persuade

To indicate what a thing is, what it is composed of, or when and where it occurred.

• Identify

• Describe

• Enumerate

• Outline