Argumentative/Common Core Terms and Definitions

To examine carefully and in detail to identify causes, key factors, or possible results.

• Define

• Interpret

• Analyze

• Context

To show to be valid or true; prove.

• Establish

• Analyze

• Deduce

• Infer

To state the meaning.

• Significant

• Distinct

• Imply

• Define

Important.

• Deduce

• Source

• Significant

• Omit

The place from which something comes, such as information from an article.

• Interpret

• Justify

• Omit

• Source

To understand something in a certain way.

• Assess

• Interpret

• Indicate

• Distinguish

To judge the value of; evaluate.

• Deduce

• Assess

• Justify

• Conclude

To state or express.

• Significant

• Source

• Indicate

• Interpret

Connected to the matter at hand.

• Irrelevant

• Relevant

• Deduce

• Omit

The set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.

• Deduce

• Distinct

• Context

• Conclude