Academic Vocabulary Part 2

clarify

During a team meeting, your manager uses a term you're not familiar with. You ask him to clarify the term by giving examples.

• to explain

• to make something

• to guess the answer

• close to exact

alternative

Is there an alternative choice.

• other choice

• to show value

• to guess the answer

• to make something

assume

Please don't assume you know the answer without hearing the question first.

• to accept as correct

• to guess something

• to make something

• to give another option

infer

Use your background knowledge and context clues to infer what happens next.

• to guess using information

• to produce something

• to give value

• to make a different choice

discriminate

Can you discriminate the differences between the two options.

• to see differences

• to make something

• to treat someone disrespectfully

• to show evidence

demonstrate

Demonstrate how to conduct an experiment.

• to show by doing

• to give value

• to guess the answer

• to show truth

value

What is the value of an Euro?

• the worth of something

• a different choice

• to make something

• to agree