The document defines 12 test-taking vocabulary words and provides a brief definition for each. The words are: trace, analyze, infer, evaluate, formulate, describe, support, explain, summarize, compare, contrast, and predict. It also includes a matrix listing the 12 words and their definitions to serve as a visual memory aid for students.

1. Test-Taking Vocabulary

3. Trace: Show the order of events or progress of a subject or event.

4. Trace?

5. Trace: Show the order of events, outline, list the steps.

6. Analyze: Break into separate parts and discuss, examine, or interpret each part.

7. Analyze?

8. Analyze: Break into separate parts and study the pieces.

9. Infer: Read between the lines.

10. Infer:

11. Infer: Read between the lines.

12. Evaluate: Give your opinion or cite the opinion of an expert. Include evidence to support the evaluation.

13. Evaluate?

14. Evaluate: Judge, determine the value.

15. Formulate: Put together, create.

16. Formulate?

17. Formulate: Put together, create.

18. Describe: Give a detailed account. Make a picture with words. List characteristics, qualities, and parts.

19. Describe?

20. Describe: Tell about, the five W’s and the H.

21. Support: Use evidence from the selection to prove your answer.

22. Support?

23. Support: Back up with details, give reasons.

24. Explain: Make an idea clear. Show logically how a concept is developed. Give the reasons for an event.

25. Explain?

26. Explain: Tell how, tell a story.

27. Summarize: Give a brief, condensed account. Include conclusions. Avoid unnecessary details.

28. Summarize?

29. Summarize: Some up, give the main points.

30. Compare: Examine two or more things. Identify similarities and differences.

31. Compare?

32. Compare: Identify similarities and differences.

33. Contrast: Show differences. Set in opposition.

34. Contrast?

35. Contrast: Show differences.

36. Predict: Use information from the literature to guess what will happen.

37. Predict?

38. Predict: Make a guess; what will happen.