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ELA Stems- Test
1st set of stems for the 1st nine weeks
Term | Definition |
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graph | writing, to write |
bio | life |
arch | to rule; government |
auto | self |
co- | together or with |
com- | together or with |
e- | out, out of, outside |
cohesive | sticking together |
biography | a book written about a person's life that is written by another person |
autobiography | a book written about a person's life that the person writes him or herself |
autograph | the signing of one's own name |
autonomy | governing over oneself |
biology | the study of life |
seismograph | a device that records the movements of the Earth |
exhale | to breathe out |
matriarch | a female who is the founder or dominant member of a community or group |
combine | to put two things together |
exclude | to leave out |
antibiotic | a medicine used to save lives because it destroys harmful bacteria and cures infections |
biosphere | the zone of planet Earth where there is life (between the deep crust and the lower atmosphere) |
democracy | government that is ruled by the people |
expand | to stretch out; to make or become larger |
homograph | words that sound alike and spelled alike, but have different meanings (bow, date, nail) |
paragraph | A section of writing that has a topic and concluding sentence |
emit | to send out something like a sound or smell |
patriarch | male who is the leader of the family |
symbiosis | How two different living organisms live together and depend on each other |
automatic | Operated by oneself |
compare | To put things together to see how they are the same |
anarchy | society without a government, no order |
antibody |