ELA Next Generation Academic Vocabulary Set 1

A concept or idea that is most important to a text or section of a text.

• Connotation

• Central Idea

• Evidence

• Claim

To select from a number of possibilities. Similar words: select, pick, determine, identify.

• Choose

• Claim

• Cite

• Connotation

To support an idea or opinion by referring to sources (texts, media, images, etc.) 

• Central Idea

• Define

• Cite

• Choose

A statement that can be supported with

evidence.

• Claim

• Contrast

• Evidence

• Cite

Something suggested by a word or thing.

• Contrast

• Denotation

• Define

• Connotation

Meaning of a word, phrase; definition

• Evidence

• Compare

• Define

• Cite

What a word actually means.

• Evidence

• Denotation

• Central Idea

• Claim

Identify how things are alike or similar.

• Compare

• Connotation

• Cite

• Choose

Characteristics that are not alike. Identify how things are different.

• Connotation

• Cite

• Contrast

• Claim

Facts, figures, details, quotations, or other sources of information that provide support 

for claims; can be checked by others.

• Evidence

• Denotation

• Central Idea

• Define