Thinking & Understanding
COMMUNICATION & INTERACTION
THINKING, REASONING & IDEAS
CONDITIONS, CHANGE & UNCERTAINTY
EVALUATION, RESULTS & QUALITY
100

You look at dark storm clouds and immediately know it’s going to rain. It’s very easy to see.

Word Bank: obvious · detail · fiction · variety

Obvious

100

100
Two friends talk back and forth about their weekend plans.

Word Bank: operate · distant · conversation · modest

conversation

100

Before choosing a side in a debate, you carefully weigh evidence, counterarguments, and consequences.

Word Bank: random · ponder · thesis · outcome

Thesis

100

A disease spreads rapidly through a population.

Word Bank: spectrum · epidemic · random · emerge

Epidemic

100

You judge the success of a project by reviewing evidence and results.

Word Bank: highlight · evaluate · circulate · propose

Evaluate

200

After working on a project for weeks, you finally understand why your experiment failed.

Word Bank: realize · examine · adjust · reveal

Realize

200

A principal announces over the intercom that school will close early.

Word Bank: respond · surface · declare · quantity

Declare

200

A research paper centers around one main claim that everything else supports.

Word Bank: digest · thesis · spectrum · update

Thesis

200

Something appears unexpectedly and becomes noticeable over time.

Word Bank: circulate · emerge · update · digest

Emerge

200

The final result of an experiment or decision.

Word Bank: spectrum · outcome · thesis · digest

outcome

300

A scientist carefully looks at a bug under a microscope to learn more about it.

Word Bank: · operate · examine . remove · insert

Examine 

300

You share a secret surprise party idea with a friend.

Word Bank: attach · profit · reveal · reliable

Reveal

300

A student connects ideas from science and history to better understand climate change.

Word Bank: circulate · integrate · edit · emerge

Integrate

300

A system frequently changes and cannot be relied on.

Word Bank: variable · unstable · stationary · favorable

unstable

300

Performance that clearly rises above others in skill or achievement.

Word Bank: confident · excel · emerge · exert

Excel

400

Your teacher asks you to focus on one specific part instead of the whole story.

Word Bank:  · quantity · relation · column . particular

Particular

400

You use words, tone, and body language to make sure someone understands how you feel.

Word Bank: declare · communicate · operate · remove

Communicate

400

Someone’s thinking style is deeply intellectual and focused on reasoning rather than emotion.

Word Bank: refined · cerebral · timid · incidental

Cerebral

400

An event happens as a side effect, not the main focus.

Word Bank: deliberate · incidental · inevitable · noble

incidental

400

Conditions that benefit progress or success.

Word Bank: inevitable · favorable · random · minor

Favorable

500

A book tells a made-up story about a future world that doesn’t exist.

Word Bank: · situation · fiction · apology · terror

Fiction

500

After realizing your joke hurt someone, you take responsibility and express regret.

Word Bank: threat · apology · reveal · progress

Apology 

500

Data strongly suggests a trend without directly proving it.

Word Bank: favorable · indicative · inevitable · virtual

Inevitable

500

A result cannot be avoided, no matter what actions are taken.

Word Bank: random · inevitable · favorable · voluntary

inevitable

500

Only the smallest acceptable amount is required.

Word Bank: immense · minimum · vital · spectrum

Minimum

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