GLOSSARY OF KEY WORDS

• Account - Account for: state reasons for, report on. Give an account of a series of events or transactions
• Analyse - Identify components and the relationship between them; draw out and relate implications
• Apply - Use, utilise, employ in a particular situation
• Appreciate - Make a judgement about the value of
• Assess - Make a judgement of value, quality, outcomes, results or size
• Calculate - Ascertain/determine from given facts, figures or information
• Clarify - make clear or plain
• Classify - Arrange or include in classes/categories
• Compare - show how things are similar or different
• Construct - Make; build; put together items or arguments
• Contrast - Show how things are different or opposite
• Critically (analyse/evaluate) - add a degree or level of accuracy depth, knowledge and understanding, logic, questioning, reflection and quality to (analyse/evaluate)
• Deduce - Draw conclusions
• Define - State meaning and identify essential qualities
• Demonstrate - Show by example
• Describe - provide characteristics and features
• Discuss - identify issues and provide points for and / or against
• Distinguish - recognise or not/indicate as being distinct or different from; to note differences between
• Evaluate - make a judgement based on criteria; determine the value of
• Examine - inquire into
• Extract - relate cause and effect; make the relationships between things evident; provide why and/or how     
• Extrapolate - infer from what is known
• Identify - Recognise and name
• Interpret - Draw meaning from
• Investigate - Plan, inquire into and draw conclusions about
• Justify - Support an argument or conclusion
• Outline - sketch in general terms; indicate the main features of
• Predict - Suggest what may happen based on available information
• Propose - Put forward (for example a point of view, idea, argument, suggestion) for consideration or action
• Recall - Present remembered ideas, facts or experiences
• Recommend - Provide reasons in favour
• Recount - Retell a series of events
• Summarise - Express, concisely, the relevant details
• Synthesise - Putting together various elements to make a whole