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STEMS 6ABC
The Word Within the Word – List #6ABC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| clam | cry out (clamorous, exclamation, clamor, exclamatory, clamant, declaim) Latin |
| clud | close (exclude, include, preclude, exclusive, occlude, conclude, cloister) Latin |
| curr | run (current, undercurrent, currently, recurrent, currency, incur) Latin |
| dign | worthy (dignify, dignity, condign, dignitary, undignified, indignation) Latin |
| gamy | marriage (monogamy, polygamy, bigamy, gamete, autogamous, exogamy) Greek |
| germ | vital/related (germane, germinate, germicide, germinal, germ) Latin |
| grat | pleasing (gratifying, gratitude, ingrate, grateful, gratuitous, ingratiate) Latin |
| greg | group (gregarious, egregious, gregariously, segregate, congregate, aggregate) Latin |
| junct | join (junction, conjunction, juncture, disjunct, injunction, adjunct) Latin |
| liber | free (liberate, liberty, liberal, libertine, libertarian, liberation) Latin |
| luc | light (lucid, translucent, lucidity, pellucid, Lucifer, elucidate, lucent, lucubrate) Latin |
| mar | sea (marine, marina, ultramarine, maritime, mariner, marinate, submarine) Latin |
| medi | middle (median, mediate, medium, mediocre, Mediterranean) Latin |
| migr | wander (migrate, transmigration, migrant, migratory, emigrant, immigrant) Latin |
| plu | more (plural, plurality, plus, pluralize, pluralism, nonplussed) Latin |
| prim | first (prime, primary, primate, primogeniture, primeval, prima donna, primo) Latin |
| pyro | fire (pyre, pyromania, pyrotechnic, pyrogenic, pyrophobia, pyrometer) Greek |
| rupt | break (erupt, disrupt, rupture, corrupt, abrupt, incorruptible) Latin |
| se | apart (secede, secret, sedition, seduce, segregate, select, separate) Latin |
| soph | wisdom (sophomore, sophisticated, sophist, philosophy, pansophy, theosophy) Greek |
| string | bind (stringent, string, stringy, astringent, stringer) Latin |
| tang | touch (tangible, tangent, tangential, cotangent, intangible, tangibility) Latin |
| tempor | time ( temporal, contemporary, temporize, temporarily) Latin |
| trans | across (transfer, translate, transmit, transfusion, translucent, transcend) Latin |
| trib | pay (tribute, tributary, retribution, contribution, attribute, distribute) Latin |