Academic vocab

what does the word affect mean?

• To have a negative effect on or to worsen something.
• To have a positive effect on or to improve something.
• To have an influence on or to cause a change in something.
• To have no impact on or to not cause any change in something.

What does explore mean?

• Avoid, evade, or escape something.
• Understand, comprehend, or grasp something.
• Ignore, overlook, or disregard something.
• Investigate, examine, or discover something new or unfamiliar.

What does the word analyze mean?

• Ignore completely
• Guess randomly
• Look at briefly
• Examine or study in detail

What does the word identify mean?

• Ignore or overlook
• Determine or ascertain
• Recognize or establish identity
• Change or alter

What does the word apply mean?

• To stop living
• To put something on top of something else
• To give a gift
• Make a formal request or submit an application

What does the word the word illustrate mean?

• Draw a picture
• Provide a visual representation or example to clarify or explain something.
• Tell a story
• Create a graph

What does the word argue mean?

• Engage in a physical fight
• Agree with someone's opinion
• Avoid discussing a topic
• Present reasons or evidence in support of an idea, belief, or theory

infer

• Deduce or conclude something from evidence or reasoning
• To copy someone else's actions without understanding the reasoning behind them
• To make a wild guess without any evidence
• To ignore evidence and make a decision based on intuition

assess

• evaluate
• analyze
• estimate
• measure

What does it mean to cite something?

• Copying someone else's work
• Ignoring the original source
• Using someone else's ideas without permission
• Giving credit to the original source