All 3 Uses
evaluate
in
The Glass Castle
(Edited)
- Mom let us grade papers that had multiple-choice, true-false, and fill-in-the-blank answers—just about anything except essay questions, which she thought she had to evaluate because they could be answered correctly in all sorts of different ways.
p. 74.7 *evaluate = think about carefully and make a judgment
- She was supposed to write up evaluations of her students' progress, but she'd spent every free minute painting, and now the deadline was on her and the evaluations were unwritten.
p. 207.7evaluations = assessments (judgments of quality)
- ...and now the deadline was on her and the evaluations were unwritten.
p. 207.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(evaluate) to think carefully and make a judgment about something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)