IGCSE Global Perspectives Vocabulary

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• A line of reasoning given to support an idea, action, perspective or issue

• Bias

• Unfairly prejudiced for or against something or someone

• Argument

• Breaking down of a global topic into issues and exploring the causes of issues

• Analysis

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• When two or more individuals work together to solve a problem

• Global

• Relating to the whole world

• Claim

• To state or assert that something is true

• Collaboration

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• The ability to understand and share the feelings of another

• Empathy

• An appraisal of something to determine its worth/effectiveness for purpose

• Evaluation

• An action or solution to an issue/problem

• Course of action

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• An important topic or problem for debate or discussion

• Fact

• Something that is known or can be proved to be true

• Evidence

• The available facts or information indicating whether something is true or valid

• Issue

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• A personal reason for involvement in a situation, especially expecting financial or other gain

• Value judgement

• Related to a particular area or neighborhood

• Local

• As assessment of something as good or bad in terms of someone's standards or priorities

• Vested interest

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• Related to a particular country/common to a whole nation

• Outcome

• The final product following a period of collaboration to achieve the project aim(s)

• National

• A view or judgment formed about something, not based on fact or knowledge

• Opinion

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• What someone thinks will happen in the future

• Point of view

• A particular attitude towards or way of regarding something

• Perspective

• A particular attitude, perspective or way of looking at an issue

• Prediction

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• Citation or quotation of a source of information reproduced in a report

• References

• Thinking about something in a logical, coherent way

• Reasoning

• Ways of working

• Processes

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• A general direction in which something is developing or changing

• Validity

• The extent to which an experiment, a test, or measuring procedure gets the same results every time

• Reliability

• The extent that an experiment or test measures what it is supposed to measure

• Trend

Analysis

• 分析

• 论证

• 偏见

• 主张

• 评估