Testing Words

Learn and practice these words to do your best on the

MAP Test!

Define

Tell the exact meaning

Define the word product.

Support Give reasons to back up your answer

Support your opinion with reasons why you think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was important.

Predict A guess about

what will happen next

Read the title and predict what you think this story will be about.

DescribeCreate a mental picture through words

Tell about it in detailDescribe how to find equivalent fractions.

Compare Tell how the main

ideas are alike or similar

Compare a cube and a rectangular prism.

Contrast Tell how the

main ideas are different

Contrast the main characters in each story.

Classify Arrange by group or category In spelling, we

classify our words into different categories.

Plant Animal Food

Summarize Tell the main parts in your own words.

Write a paragraph that summarizes the story.

Persuade Convince using facts or reasoning

What was the author’s purpose: to entertain, inform, or persuade?

Diagram An illustration or drawing with labeled parts

Make a diagram showing the sequence of events in the story.

Graphic Organizer A diagram displaying information

Create a graphic organizer comparing and contrasting animals and plants.

Explain Tell how or what in your own words.

Explain your prediction.

Infer Make a good guess. Read between the lines. Use the clues from the story to make an inference about the characters feelings.

Advantage A benefit or gain

(positive; thumbs up)

One advantage of the covered wagon was that it carried supplies.

Disadvantage A loss or bad

condition (negative; thumbs down)

One disadvantage of the covered wagon was that it was heavy and hard to pull.

Benefit Something that

does good to a person or thing

(positive; advantage)

List the benefits of being a United States citizen.

Sum Add Find the sum of 648 and 98.

Difference Subtract Find the difference of 8000 and 486.

Product Multiply Find the product of 48 and 97.

Quotient Divide Find the quotient of 648 and 8.

Analyze

To examine something in great detail in order to understand it better or discover more about it.

Apply

To make use of something to achieve a result or produce a product.

Compose

To make something by combining together.

To put things together to form a whole

Compute

To calculate an answer or result

Construct

To draw something accurately using measurements.

Convert

To change units of one measurement into units of another.

For ex. To convert 3 feet into 1 yard.

Create

To produce something

Decompose

To break something down, or be broken down, into smaller or simpler parts

Design

To plan something

Determine

To find out something after an investigation.

Display

To make something visible or available for others to see

create

Distinguish

To be aware of a difference between two or more groups or things.

To show that two or more groups of things are different from each other.

Estimate

to make an approximate calculation of something.

Evaluate

To consider or examine something in order to judge its value, quality, importance, extent, condition.

Extend

To continue – as in a pattern or line

Gather

To compile something such as information or ideas from various sources.

Generalize

To infer a general conclusion.

Identify

to recognize something and to be able to say what it is.

Interpret

To establish or explain the meaning or significance of something.

Justify

to give a reason or explanation why something was done.

To give somebody an acceptable reason for taking a particular action

Measure

To find out the size, length, quantity, or rate of something using an appropriate tool.

Model

Create a numerical, algebraic, or physical representation of a given situation.

Order

To arrange items in a particular way.

Recognize

To identify a thing because of having perceived it before.

Reposition

To put something in a new position.

Represent

To represent something in a picture or with a model.

Select

To choose something among several other items.

Solve

To work out a solution to an equation or mathematical problem.

Tell

To give an account in writing of events or facts.

Translate

To move an object in a direct straight line without rotation.