Academic Vocabulary Unit 9

________ upon experience or observation alone.

• depending

• relying

• ignoring

• focusing

to show to be ________ or true.

• valid

• invalid

• false

• untrue

to judge or determine the ________, worth, or quality of.

• significance

• importance

• value

• impact

plain or ________ to the sight or understanding.

• clear

• obscure

• hidden

• confusing

fully or ________ expressed or demonstrated.

• clearly

• vaguely

• partially

• ambiguously

Feature - a prominent or conspicuous part or ________.

• characteristic

• object

• element

• component

Focus - to bring attention to, to ________.

• concentrate

• distract

• ignore

• neglect

Hypothesis - a proposition assumed as a ________ in an argument.

• premise

• conclusion

• assumption

• theory

Identify - to recognize or establish as being a particular person or ________.

• thing

• animal

• place

• event

Implicit - implied, rather than ________ stated.

• expressly

• vaguely

• silently

• indirectly