Twelve Words

Twelve Words

1. Trace – follow, step by step, do an outline, do a timeline, sequence.

2. Analyze – identify, examine, understand it better, take it apart, look at the little pieces.

3. Infer – imply or suggest, make a reasonable guess, suggest, read between the lines, hypothesize, use your own experiences.

4. Evaluate – consider it, solve it, assess it, grade it, in your opinion, tell me the good and the bad.

5. Formulate – express, communicate, draw, create, design, devise, construct, set goals.

6. Describe – to give account of, label, outline, represent something pictorially, tell me about it, in your own words, show me, use your adjectives, give five W’s and the H. (who, what, where, why, when, and how).

7. Support – reinforce, to be in favor of something such as a cause policy or organization, justify, evidence, back it up, argue the point, give examples, give reasons.

8. Explain – to give the reason for something, put it your own words, give the 5 W’s and H (who, what, where, why, when, and how).

9. Summarize – to give a shorten version, wrap it up, the remix, put in the ‘W’s and the ‘H’ (who, what, where, when, why and how, put these into one sentence.

10. Compare – examine two or more things, similarities, show how things are alike AND different.

11. Contrast – a difference or something that is different compared with something else, all the way that they are different and alike.

12. Predict – to say what is going to happen in the future, probably, look into your crystal ball, tell us what is going to happen.