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Stems List 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anglo (Anglophile) | English (one who loves the English language |
| ist (artist) | one who (one who does art) |
| saur (dinosaur) | lizard (an extinct animal related to birds) |
| pithee (oreopithecus) | ape (an extinct primate) |
| calli (calligraphy) | beautiful (the art of writing) |
| austro (Australia) | south (Country/Continent in the Southeastern hemisphere) |
| cephalo (cephalic) | head (relating to the head) |
| chiro (chiropractor) | hand (one who practices chiropractic) |
| caust (holocaust) | burn (Time in which many German Jews were killed by Hitler in World War II) |
| terr (extraterrestrial) | land (alien, unfamiliar) |
| cata (catacombs) | down (passageways for religious practice) |
| jur (jury) | swear (group of people who determine whether one is a guilty party) |
| flu (confluence) | flow (act of merging) |
| here (adhesive) | stick (a sticky surface to stick things to) |
| pos (position) | put (place where something has been put) |
| mund (mundane) | world (plain, boring, dull) |
| cracy (aristocracy) | government (highest classes in society) |
| mania (pyromania) | madness (disorder in which individuals repeatedly fail to resist impulses to deliberately start fires) |
| ize (harmonize) | make (different pitches made to compliment a melody) |
| antho (anthology) | flower (the study of flowers) |
| algia (neuralgia) | pain (nerve pain) |
| somn (insomnia) | sleep (disorder where one has trouble falling asleep) |
| quadr (quadrant) | four (sector equal to one quarter) |
| err (error) | wander (mistake) |
| sine (sinecure) | without (position requiring little or no work) |
| capable of burning, corroding, or destroying live tissue severely critical or sarcastic | caustic |
| merging or flowing together gathering together | confluence |
| existing as an inseparable part | inherent |
| existing underground hidden or secret/out of sight | subterranean |
| to set or place on or over someone else | superimpose |
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