Test Prep Words

To figure something out by using evidence and reasoning; “reading between the lines

• Demonstrate

• Explain

• Infer

• Summarize

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

To make something clear by using description, relevant facts, or ideas

• Explain

• Interpret

• Infer

• Demonstrate

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Define

• To explain the meaning of something; to present something in understandable terms

• To examine something in detail in order to understand it

• To point out; to show

• To give the meaning (definition) of something

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

To defend; to back up with reasoning and/or evidence

• Convey

• Support

• Define

• Summarize

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Communicate a message; make an idea known

• Convey

• Support

• Define

• Summarize

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

able to recover quickly

• resilient

• insipid

• deleterious

• assiduous

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

inclined to complain; irritable

• adulation

• cryptic

• querulous

• nefarious

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

unusually early intellectual aptitude or maturity

• perfidious

• novice

• adulation

• precocious

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

willing to betray one's trust

• covert

• cryptic

• indignant

• perfidious

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

wealthy

• prosperity

• opulent

• deleterious

• chastise