12 Power Words

What does the word TRACE mean?

• List in steps

• To judge

• To breakdown

• To back it up

What does the word SUPPORT mean?

• To Think it Out

• To backup with details/evidence

• Things that are alike

• To create

What does the word ANALYZE mean?

• To describe something

• Things that are different

• To give the main point of a text

• To break apart and study the pieces

What does the word EXPLAIN mean?

• To Outline

• To Breakdown

• To tell how something is done

• To create an educational guess

What does the word INFER mean?

• To create an educational guess

• Backing up your evidence

• Thinking something out

• Describing something

What does the word SUMMARIZE mean?

• Things that are different

• To think something out

• Things that are the same

• To give the main points in a text

What does the word EVALUATE mean?

• To create

• To Outline

• To think it out

• To judge

What does the word COMPARE mean?

• Things that are different

• Things that are the alike

• To describe in detail

• To give details of a text

What does the word CONTRAST mean?

• Back it up

• Between the lines

• Things that are the alike

• Things that are different

What does the word FORMULATE mean?

• To write

• To read

• To create

• To think it out