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Analyze Appraise Arrange Calculate Characterize Cite Classify Combine Comment Compare Compose Compute Conclude Construct Contrast Convert Create Criticize Critique Define Demonstrate Describe Design Determine Diagram Differentiate Discriminate Discuss Distinguish Draft Draw Estimate Evaluate Explain l. To study or determine the nature and relationship of the pares of by analysis. To judge and analyze the worth, significance, or status of. To put into a proper order or into a correct or suitable sequence, relationship, or adjustment. To ascertain or determine by mathematical proc.esses. To describe the essential character or quality of. To quote by way of evidence, authority, or proof. To arrange in classes; to assign to a category. To bring into such close relationship as to obscure individual characteristics. To observe, remark, or express an opinion or attitude concerning what has been seen or heard about the subject at hand. To examine the character or qualities of, for the primary purpose of discovering resemblances. To Porm by putting together; to form the substance of. To determine, especially by mathematical means. To make a decision about; to reach a logically necessary end by reasoning. To create by organizing ideas or concepts logically and coherenrly. To compare in respect to differences. To change from one form or function to another. To produce or bring about by a course of action or imaginative skill. To consider the merits and demerits of and judge accordingly; to find fault with. To offer a critical review or commentary. To set forth the meaning of; specifically,
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To prove or make clear by reasoning or evidence; to illustrate and explain, especially with examples. To transmit a mental image, an impression, or an understanding of the nature and characteristics of. To conceive or plan out in the mind. To come to a decision as the result of investigation or reasoning; to settle or decide by choice among alternatives or possibilities. To represent by or put into the form of a diagram. To mark or show a difference in; to develop different characteristics in. To mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of; to distinguish by discerning or exposing differences. To discourse about through reasoning or argument; to present in detail. To perceive a difference in; to separate into kinds, classes, or categories. To draw up, compose, prepare, frame. To express graphically in words; to delineate. To judge the value, worth, or significance of. To determine or fix the value of; to determine the significance or worth of, usually by careful appraisal and study. To give the meaning or signincance of; to provide an undemanding reason for or cause of. courseofsrudyl comrnandwords.htrnl of; to give the
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To pur into a systematized statement or expression; to prepare according to a formula . To yield or furnish as a product, consequence, or effect; to offer for the consideration, acceptance, or use of another. To establish the identity of; to show or prove the sameness of. To make clear, especially by giving examples or instances. To point out or point to with more or less exactness; to show or make known with a fair degree of certainty. To derive as a conclusion from factors or premises. To explain or tell the meaning of; to present in understandable terms.

To form an opinion about through careful weighing of evidence and testing of premises. To prove or show to be valid, sound, or conforming to fact or reason; to furnish grounds or evidence for. To enumerate. To pair up or put in a set as possessing equal or harmonizing attributes.

To make minor changes to give a new orientation to or to serve a new end. To mention or identify by name. To pur in order; to arrange. To indicate rhe principal [eatures or different parts of. To declare in advance; to foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or reason. To put into written form; to draw up. To offer or convey by way of message; to furnish or provide. To pur back into proper order or into a correct or suitable sequence, relationship, or adjusrmenr. To bring forward a being fir or worthy; to indicate as being one's choice [or somerhing or as otherwise having one's approval or suppon. To set down in wriring; to make an answer. To show or establish logical or causal connection between. To say or write somerhing in return; to make an answer. To stare again in a new form. To make a formal or official examinarion of the state of; to go over or examine critically or deliberately. To make a new, amended, improved, or up-to-dare version of. To choose from a number or group-usually, distinguishing feature. by fitness, excellence, or other ---

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To set or keep apart; to make a distinction between; to sort. To ser forth in a statement, account, or description; to make evident or clear. To find a solution for a problem. To express in words. To divide rhe pans into more pans. To tell in or reduce to a summary. To provide with verification, corroboration, To pur on paper; to record, state, or explain. or substantiation.