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ELA Stems- Test
1st set of stems for the 1st nine weeks
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |