ACT test vocabulary

discourse that surrounds and helps explain a word or passage

• context

• argument

• claim

• counterargument

a person who writes professionally

• graph

• table

• author

• narrator

describe or portray the qualities or peculiarities of

• capture

• characterize

• item

• analyze

a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

• evidence

• rhetorical

• appeal

• data

a tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested

• infer

• imply

• foreshadow

• hypothesis

present the main points in a concise form

• characterize

• summarize

• analyze

• capture

an assertion offered as evidence that something is true

• context

• argument

• claim

• counterargument

make an indirect reference to

• perspective

• explicit

• implicit

• allude

a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group

• item

• summarize

• analyze

• characterize

break down into components or essential features

• capture

• characterize

• item

• analyze