Rosetta Stone's Essential Academic Vocabulary: Lesson 5

These essential, high-frequency words will put you on the path to vocabulary success. Simply start a practice session, and you'll be on your way to stronger reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills!

Explore the complete collection of Rosetta Stone's Academic Vocabulary lists.
10 words 1153 learners

Learn words with Flashcards and other activities

Definition First
Print Flashcards

Other learning activities

Answer a few questions about each word. Use this to prep for your next quiz! Compete with other teams in real time to see who answers the most questions correctly! Test your spelling acumen. Read the definition, listen to the word and try spelling it!

Teaching tools

Create and assign quizzes to your students to test their vocabulary. Assign learning activities including Practice, Vocabulary Jams and Spelling Bees to your students, and monitor their progress in real-time.

Full list of words from this list:

words only definitions & notes
  1. category
    a collection of things sharing a common attribute
    This year’s contest covered four broad categories: biology, chemistry, physics, and social science. Science Magazine (Feb 14, 2020)
  2. clarify
    make clear and comprehensible
    “I found the process confusing in the early days, but it’s since been clarified and simplified,” Moore says. Science Magazine (Jun 3, 2020)
  3. demonstrate
    show the validity of something, as by example or explanation
    For several months he worked hard to demonstrate the truth of his idea. One Hundred Years of Solitude
  4. detail
    a single fact considered separately from the whole
    Then I read over the short note again, weighing whether to put in any more details. Girl in the Blue Coat
  5. disagree
    be of different opinions
    Scientists disagree on exactly how much CO2 oceans soak up each year. Scientific American (Jun 24, 2020)
  6. essential
    basic and fundamental
    Good spelling and good grammar and good word skills are essential for every student. Frindle
  7. factor
    anything that contributes causally to a result
    That’s because many factors affect whether a chemical will harm plants or animals, such as the weather or the time of year. Science Magazine (Apr 1, 2021)
  8. interpret
    make sense of; assign a meaning to
    The judge wondered how to interpret the phrase. Washington Post (Nov 8, 2020)
  9. introduce
    bring in or establish in a new place or environment
    Tulips were introduced to the U.S. from Holland. Scientific American (Aug 5, 2020)
  10. meaning
    the message that is intended or expressed or signified
    I didn’t understand the meaning of his words then as well as I do now. The Diary of a Young Girl
Created on Wed Aug 18 15:18:32 EDT 2021 (updated Fri Aug 20 15:45:49 EDT 2021)

Sign up now (it’s free!)

Whether you’re a teacher or a learner, Vocabulary.com can put you or your class on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.