Vocabulary 4 Sentences

Ben’s teddy bear was missing! Even though he was only seven, he was a good detective. He knew he would have to __________________ every bit of his detective knowledge to solve the case.

• determine

• argue

• apply

• infer

Ben’s first move was to ___________________ the crime scene.

• examine

• classify

• compare

• reflect

The messy state of his room led him to _________________ that someone had stolen Teddy.

• argue

• classify

• contrast

• infer

To ________________ more closely, he searched for fibers, dusted for finger-prints, and even black-lighted the floor. He found several sets of fingerprints. One suspicious set of fingerprints was brown. He also found some brown crumbs.

• compare

• investigate

• explain

• determine

He decided to ______________ the prints he found at the scene to the ones of his family he had on file.

• reflect

• explain

• determine

• compare

The brown fingerprints were his own. After tasting some bigger crumbs, Ben was able to ___________ that the crumbs could only have come from a chocolate doughnut.

• determine

• contrast

• argue

• reflect

He knew because he had one just like it for breakfast. Now Ben was off in search of more clues to help him ____________________ with certainty who had stolen his teddy bear.

• reflect

• argue

• compare

• apply

Ms. A could not tell her twin students Alba and Amelia apart from one another. Because she could never decide which one she was talking to, she would have to find a way to ______________ which was which.

• deduce

• argue

• explain

• apply

She had them stand next to each other, so she could ________________ their differences. Once she did, she could see Alba’s face was thinner, and Amelia’s eyes were rounder.

• explain

• reflect

• classify

• contrast

At the beginning of each new year, I ____________ on the decisions I made the year before.

• argue

• reflect

• compare

• classify