STEMs Flashcards
STEMs
-acy
State of being something
Legacy: A legacy can be a gift from a family member or something handed down from the past.
Conspiracy: a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
Martin Luther King Jr. is known as a legacy.
agr
field,counrty
Agriculturalist:someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
Agriculturist: someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil
Alexandra is a agriculturalist she loves to grow feirlds of crops.
bene
come together,agree
Beneficence: doing good
Beneficent: doing or producing good
James Is known for being beneficence.He likes to help out churchs and shelters.
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
All photos and shows were monochromatic back in the day.
crypt
hidden
Cryptogram: a piece of writing in code or cipher
Cryptography: the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
My sister took my cryptogram and examined it to try to find the hidden code.
-ence
state or condition
Cadence: A cadence is a repeated pattern of movement or sound, such as the way someone’s voice rises and falls when reading something out loud.
Evidence: Pieces of evidence are those things or signs that back up or prove what someone says.
Stacy has to state text evidence in her essay in order to get full points.
-ery
act or practice
Bravery: a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear
Surgery: the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures.
One of Alexandra´s friend had to get surgery for her left eye.
facil
easy, easily accomplished
Facilitator: someone who makes progress easier
Difficult: not easy or simple
Genesis finds her math homework to be very difficult.
gen
born produced
genetic: occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
genocide: systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
genetics plays a big role In why people lose hair or why people are short or tall genetics can even be one big reson why people get cancer And diabetes.
hyper
over,above
hypersensitive: of feeling ‘overly’ emotional
hyperventilate: to breathe ‘over’ the normal rate
She was breathing so hard that she was going to start to hyperventilate.
hypo
under,below
hypocritical: being ‘under’ critical of oneself when pretending to be something one is not
hypodermic: pertaining to ‘under’ the skin
Alexandra hates going to the doctors she gets scared of being hypodermic becuase she gets bruised after.
lev
light of little weight
elevator: that which makes a body ‘light’ enough to be raised
irrelevant: of a point which should not be raised because it is not ‘light’
I wanted to see the view from the Shanghai Tower but the elavator was broken so I had to walk up the stairs.
mod
method,measure,manner
model: plan or create according to a model or models
modern: characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture
Annas dream is to model for teen vouge.
para
beside, alongside
paragraph: divide into paragraphs, as of text
paralysis: loss of the ability to move a body part
Alexandra gets paralysis in her leg when she sits still for a long time without movement.
pli
fold,bend
simplify: When you simplify something, you make it easier or not so hard to understand.
appliance: a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
Alexandra tried to simplify the math homework to her little sister.
