Academic Vocabulary Quiz

Analyze

• To follow the course or development of something

• To break something down into its parts

• The most important part

Compare

• To tell about something so that people understand it

• To follow the course or development of something

• To find likeness between two or more things

Contrast

• To find likeness between two or more things

• To find differences between or among two or more things

• To elaborate or expand in detail

Demonstrate

• To find differences between or among two or more things

• To tell about something so that people understand it

• To describe or explain by examples; to show clearly that something exists or is true

Details

• To find differences between or among two or more things

• Isolated facts; pieces of information that support or tell more about the idea

• To break something down into its parts

Determine

• To conclude, decide, choose, figure out, come to a firm decision

• To elaborate or expand in detail

• To deduce, conclude, to read between the lines

Explain

• To follow the course or development of something

• To tell about something so that people understand it

• To find likeness between two or more things

Main Idea

• The most important part

• To follow the course or development of something

• To deduce, conclude, to read between the lines

Structure

• To tell about something so that people understand it

• To elaborate or expand in detail

• How something is organized or built; how the information within a written text is organized

Theme

• To find likeness between two or more things

• A unified idea carried through a text; a universal idea that an author is trying to teach

• To elaborate or expand in detail