STEM Flashcards
Bene: come together/ Agree
benign: If you describe someone as benign, they are kind, gentle, and harmless.
beneficial: Something beneficial is helpful, useful, or valuable in some way.
After being friends with her for so long I realized how benign and petite she was.
acy (STEM) = state of being something
conspiracy: a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
piracy: hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts
Now adays pirates aren’t as popular but there are still cases of piracy near Africa.
agr- = field, country
peregrination: A peregrination is a long journey or act of traveling from place to place, especially by foot.
agrarianism: An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.
Peregrination was there before cars, and horses and required a lot of strength for one journey.
ery = act or practice
chicanery:If you employ chicanery, you are devising and carrying out clever plans and trickery to cheat and deceive people.
knavery:lack of honesty
Most relationships fail because of constant knavery.
ence = state or condition
affluence: Affluence is the state of having a lot of money and many possessions, granting one a high economic standard of living.
transience: Something that has the quality of transience lasts for only a short time or is constantly changing.
Some may say that just a human life is transience trough time.
crypt = hidden
cryptogram: a piece of writing in code or cipher
grotesque: Something grotesque is so distorted or misshapen that it is disturbing, bizarre, gross, or very ugly.
Most impactful paintings to look at are those which are grotesque.
chrom = color
monochrome:A monochrome painting comprises different shades of only one color or is done in black and white.
chromaticable to refract light without spectral color separation
The painting called, “Black Square” by the Artist Kazimir Malevich is one of the most famous Monochrome paintings.
gen = born, produced
miscegenation: reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)
endogenous: of or resembling an endogen
A average person may have several roots due to miscegenation and travel.
facil = easy, easily accomplished
facile: If you criticize someone’s arguments as being facile, you consider their ideas simplistic and not well thought through.
facilitate: When you facilitate something, such as an event or project, you make it easier for everyone to get it done by giving assistance.
I try to facilitate as many events as I can at my work job for more attention, and support later on.
hyper- = over, above
hypersensitive: of feeling ‘overly’ emotional
hyperthermia: condition of having a body temperature that is ‘over’ the normal
We could never say anything to her about how she acted, because she was hypersensitive.
hypo = under, below
hypodermic: pertaining to ‘under’ the skin
hypoventilation: a breathing ‘under’ the normal rate
During sleep you may be at risk to not breathing correctly causing hypodermic which can lead to death.
lev = light, of little weight
Alleve: painkiller which makes headache pain ‘lighter’
leverage: having the power to raise what you’d like, thus making situations ‘light’ to control
When women get on their menstrual cycle its common for them to take alleve if their head aches are too painful, and could be used in sports, or everyday headaches.
mod = method, measure, manner
modicum: A modicum is a small amount of something, especially a good quality.
modishin: The current fashion or style
Caviar is normally served in modicum.
para = beside, alongside
paradigm: A paradigm is a model or example of something that shows how it works or how it can be produced; a paradigm shift is a completely new way of thinking about something.
parable: A parable is a short story that usually is told to illustrate a moral or lesson of some kind.
Most children stories are parable, which kids can learn a lot by reading.
pli = fold, bend
pliant: Something that is pliant is adaptable and can bend easily without breaking.
pliable: susceptible to being led or directed
She was so clueless and pliable which is why people took advantage of her.
