MCAS Academic Vocabulary

To break apart and deeply study the parts of something

• analyze

• cite

• compare

• clarify

Trustworthy and Reliable

• demonstrate

• deduce

• debate

• credible

an aspect of something

• discuss

• classify

• assess

• characteristic

to tell so a picture is pained in the mind

• describe

• define

• evaluate

• demonstrate

To look at something closely

• evaluate

• emphasis

• examine

• evidence

To argue with others about an issue

• deduce

• debate

• discuss

• credible

to look at the difference between two things

• compare

• contrast

• locate

• plagiarism

clues or proof

• detective

• deduce

• evidence

• emphasis

to quote a text or authority

• claim

• compare

• cite

• contrast

to mark up a text with notes, questions, highlighting, etc

• discuss

• annotate

• classify

• evidence