Academic Vocabulary Practice

To express at great length or detail

• Elaborate

• Evaluate

Judge the worth or quality of something

• Evaluate

• Figurative

knowledge or information on which to base belief that something is true or can be proven true

• Inference

• Evidence

To make something less specific; overall conclusion

• Generalize

• Literal

Visual images or pictures created in one's mind based on a person's 5 senses.

• Imagery

• Figurative

Drawing a conclusion based on prior connections and clues form the text

• Figurative

• Inference

A meaning that is word for word; factual; actual; without interpretation

• Figurative

• Literal

Not literal; word or phrase that does not have its normal, everyday meaning or definition

• Evidence

• Figurative