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Verbs for cognitive objectives

Evaluation	judging the value of	appraise, argue, assess, compare, conclude, contrast, criticise, describe, discriminate, explain, interpret, judge, relate, summarise, validate
Synthesis	putting elements into a whole	categorise, combine, compile, compose, create, devise, design, explain, generate, modify, organise, plan, rearrange, reconstruct, relate, reorganise, revise, rewrite, summarise
Analysis	breaking down into parts to clarify organisation	analyse, break down, detect, deduce, illustrate, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, identify, infer, outline, point out, relate, select, separate, sub-divide
Application	using abstractions in concrete situations	apply, change, choose, classify, compute, demonstrate, develop, discover, employ, manipulate, modify, operate, organise, predict, prepare, produce, relate, restructure, show, solve, transfer, use
Comprehension	showing understanding of	convert, defend, distinguish, estimate, explain, extend, generalise, give examples, give in own words, illustrate, interpret, infer, paraphrase, predict, rewrite, summarise, restate, read, reorder, rearrange, represent, translate, transform
Knowledge	remembering something previously encountered	acquire, define, describe, identify, label, list match, name, outline, reproduce, select, state, recall, recognise