The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) present a new mandate and challenge for K-12 educators-teaching and reinforcing cognitive verbs. These verbs, referred to as academic vocabulary, signal the type of mental operations that students are expected to perform. For example, the verb execute indicates that they are expected to do something that has steps or phases. One resource that can help teachers reinforce these verbs is the list in Figure 1, which contains 227 cognitive verbs organized into 24 categories of semantically related terms. These lists are provided in this article by Robert J. Marzano.