Analytical Verbs

Incorporates

• to make fit into

• to change

• to hint at

• to persuade

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

implies

• to express indirectly

• to express directly

• to hint at

• to change

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Persuade

• to make stronger

• To call on someone to do something using reasoning and argument. 

• to change in composition, or structure

• to blend into, to fit into

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Transform

• To make known or to describe. 

• To determine or identify the essential qualities or meaning of.

• To compare or appraise to respect the differences. 

• To change in composition or structure. 

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Reinforces

• To hint at, describe the future

• to describe or make known

• Strengthen and support an object or something (weak).

• to arouse a sympathetic response

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Concedes 

• To acknowledge begrudgingly or hesitantly.  

• to make something strong or greater than before

• a warning or hint at the future

• to describe something

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

Contrasts

• To unite or work on something already in existence so as to form oan indistinguishable whole. 

• To express indirectly 

• To call on someone to do something using reasoning and argument. 

• To compare or appraise to respect the differences. 

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Heightens

• To compare or appraise to respect the differences. 

• To become great or greater in an amount of degree or extent. 

• To change in composition or structure. 

• To unite or work on something already in existence so as to form oan indistinguishable whole. 

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Defines

• To make known or to describe. 

• To call on someone to do something using reasoning and argument. 

• To acknowledge begrudgingly or hesitantly.  

• To determine or identify the essential qualities or meaning of.

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

Explains

• To make known or to describe. 

• to acknowledge begrudgingly or hesitantly.  

• To be warning or indication of future events. 

• To arouse a sympathetic response.

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.8.2D