10WordsQStudy guides › Level 8 · Academic Words
Academic words in sentences
💡 The idea
Science, history and essays use a set of academic words: verify, analyze, estimate, classify. They show up in every subject, so they are worth knowing well. Use the sentence to decide what job the missing word does.
🪜 The steps
- Read the sentence and say what is happening in plain words.
- Think of an everyday word for the gap (“check”, “sort”, “guess”).
- Pick the academic word that means the same.
✏️ Worked examples
1. “The scientist ran more tests to ___ her idea.” More tests are a way to check. The word is verify.
2. “Scientists ___ animals into groups.” Putting into groups is sorting. The word is classify.
⚡ Handy ones
| Word | Plain meaning |
|---|---|
| analyze | study closely, part by part |
| hypothesis | an idea you can test |
| estimate | make a careful guess about an amount |
| justify | give good reasons for |
| consistent | matching, in agreement |
| regulate | control with rules |
| evaporate | change from liquid to gas |
⚠️ Watch out
- Look-alike traps: classify / justify / simplify; extinct / distinct / instinct. Read to the end of the word.
🎯 Try these
- Write a short ___ of the chapter: summit · summary · summer
- Use facts to ___ your opinion: notify · justify · glorify
Answers: 1) summary 2) justify
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