Argumentative Text and Persuasive Language Vocabulary

to get at or into something

• access

• era

• intact

• snow day

to move forward or progress in development

• drawbacks

• data

• advance

• declined

to mention as proof or support

• agricultural

• cite

• era

• thrive

a careful examination and study of something

• access

• remnants

• fragments

• analysis

an opposing opinion or viewpoint

• historian

• counterpoint

• reconstruct

• bees

individual facts, figures, and other items of information

• reasoning

• preserved

• era

• data

things that make something more difficult or unpleasant

• drawbacks

• broccoli

• cite

• access

the process of drawing conclusions from facts; clear and sensible thinking

• reasoning

• reconstruct

• intact

• data

a person who digs up remains of ancient cities and towns, and studies the way humans lived long ago

• intact

• archaeologist

• historian

• declined

a period of time or of history

• intact

• thrive

• era

• declined