Academic Vocabulary 3: Deeper reasoning

To judge how good, useful, or trustworthy something is by examining it against clear standards.

The standards or requirements used to judge something or make a choice.

Believable and worthy of trust because there are good reasons to trust it.

A tendency that favors one side and may make a judgment or result less fair or accurate.

To support an account or claim with evidence from another independent source.

To combine ideas or information from different sources into a connected understanding or response.

Another possible choice or way of doing something.

To decide which needs or actions deserve attention before others.

Not final or certain yet; open to change when more information becomes available.

A lack of complete knowledge or confidence about what is true or what will happen.

A reasoned challenge to a claim or proposal.

To acknowledge that a point made by someone else is valid, even when you still disagree overall.

To show with evidence or reasoning that a claim is wrong.

To support a claim with enough relevant evidence to give it a solid basis.

To make a claim more precise by adding a condition, limit, or exception.

To change work after reviewing it so that its meaning, accuracy, or usefulness improves.

Clear and logically connected, with parts that fit together.

A small but important difference or detail that adds precision to meaning.

A possible result or meaning that follows from an idea, finding, or decision, even if it is not stated directly.

A weakness, boundary, or restriction that reduces what something can do or what a conclusion can establish.