MYP Command Terms Flashcards
Analyze
Examining something in thorough detail typically involving information or trying to find a conclusion.
Annotate
Adding notes to a diagram or text
Apply
Understanding a response using your knowledge in a situation it is needed
Appraise
Judge the value and quality of something. To evaluate
Argue
Debate an issue or argument with someone trying to persuade others to share the same view.
Calculate
Mathematically determining the number of something
Classify
Arranging something by its category
Comment
Giving your opinion on a given statement
Compare
Similarities or differences between two situations referring back to all situations
Compare & Contrast
A rhetorical style that discusses the similarities and differences of two or more items
Construct
Displaying information in a graphical form
Contrast
An account of differences between two or more situations refereeing back to all of them
Deduce
Come to a conclusion from the information given
Define
The exact meaning of a word
Demonstrate
Exhibition and explanation of how things work and are preformed
Derive
To mathematically give a new relationship or equation
Describe
To give a detailed account by using words when speaking to someone or something
Design
Plan or specification for the construction of an idea or model
Determine
Obtained in a specific way; only way
Discuss
Conversations that maintain a hypothesis or an argument. Can be followed by opinions and conclusions that should always be supported by evidence.
Distinguish
Make it understandable between two or more products
Document
To credit to the sourced that you used by citing them, should be included in your text
Estimate
Roughly judge or calculate to find the approximate value
Evaluate
To make a guesstimate about the idea, assiniig limitations and implications
Examine
Inspect something in good detail to determine the issue
Exemplify
Represent an item with an example
Explain
A detailed conversations giving ideas or causes
Explore
Travel in thorough; process of discovery
Formulate
Precisely express the relevant concepts or arguments
Identify
Establishing what something is; providing an answer and recognizing a factor or feature
Infer
Deduce or listen to what has actually been expressed
Interpret
Recognize or understanding something by drawing conclusion by the given info
Investigate
In order to come to new information, observe, study an and make detailed new information and clues
Justify
Give well founded evidence to support your answer
Label
Add a title
List
Give brief answers and no information or explantation to go with it
Measure
Finding the value
Outline
A brief summary
Predict
What you think it about to happen; upcoming event
Present
Observation, examination, or consideration
Prove
Use steps to gain the result in a formal way
Recall
Acknowledge or identify
Reflect
To give much thought into; consider
Recognize
Identify or to notice different features
Show
Give steps in a visible way
Sketch
Drawing of the general idea of the shape or relationship
Solve
Finding the answer
State
Give a specific answer without an explanation
Suggest
Give a solution or hypothesis or another answer
Summarize
Major points of the general theme
To what
Consider the argument or concept of something this involves opinions and conclusions
Extent
Something that was presented and supported with proper evidence evidence and judgement
Use
Apply your knowledge and put it into theory
