STEMS LIST 96th Grade Coronado Elementary

School

Path means feeling

Some people are empathic.

Sympathy

Telepathy is the communication directly from one person's mind to another's without speech, writing, or other signs or symbols.

A means Not

Some people are amoral.

Apolitical

Apathy means not taking any interest in anything, or not bothering to do anything.

Nomy means Law

The economy is recovering from a recession.

Taxonomy

Astronomy means the study of the law of the stars.

Fid means Faith

Helena has no confidence.

Bona Fide

Fidelity means loyalty: loyalty to an allegiance, promise, or vow.

Caco means Bad

When the boy knocked over the drums, there was a cacophony of noise!

Cacography

Cacology means a bad choice of words; faulty speech.

Hetero means Different

Heterodox

Heterogeneous

Heterozygous means having genetic variants

Sci means Know

You will take three years of Science in high school.

Scientism

Conscience is an aptitude, faculty, intuition or judgment of the intellect that distinguishes right from wrong.

Graph means Write

He took a polygraph test to prove that he was telling the truth.

Photograph

Autograph is a person’s own signature.

Lat means Side

The butterfly has bilateral wings.

Latitude

Collateral is the security pledged for payment of a loan.

Lith means Rock

She received a Disney lithograph to hang in her room.

Paleolithic

Neolithic means the last phase of the stoneage.

Tract means Pull

He plowed the fields with a tractor.

Attractive

Contract is an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.

In means In or Not

The crime suspect was determined to be insane.

Indefinite

Incorrigible means to be incapable of being corrected or reformed.

Co means Together

My students cooperate with each other when working in groups.

Coauthor

Coordinating is the act of organizing, making different people or things work together for a goal or effect to fulfill desired goals in an organization.

Phile means Love

Philologist

Bibliophile means a collector of books.

Ine means Nature of

We have two canines at home.

Crystalline

Bovine is of or pertaining to the subfamily Bovinae, which includes cattle, buffalo, and kudus.

AR means Relating to

They worked on linear lines in Math.

Lunar

Circular means the shape of a circle or round in appearance.

Hexa means Six

In Math class they measured hexameters.

Hexagon

Hexarchy means a group of six allied states or kingdoms each under its own ruler.

Fract means Break

He fractured his toe while playing soccer.

Fractions

Infraction means failure to comply: failure to obey or fulfill a law, contract, or agreement, or an instance of this.

Platy means Flat

The queen ate dinner from a gold plate.

Platypus

Plateau means a raised area with a level top.

Theo means God

Many people study theology in college.

Atheism

Monotheism is the belief in a single God: the belief that there is only one God, as found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Fin means End

The students defined their vocabulary words through a Power Point slideshow.

Finals

Infinite means not measurable: without any finite or measurable limits.

Hedron means Sided Object

The girl picked apart the word polyhedron. Poly means many and hedron means sided object.

Octahedron

Tetrahedron means a four sided object.

Ambul means Walk

The girl rode in an ambulance when she broke her leg.

Ambulatory

Funambulist is one who performs on a tightrope or a slack rope.

Ous means Full of

Her dress was glorious.

Glamourous

Victorious means having achieved a victory ; conquering; triumphant.

Topo means Place

The students studied the topography of Phoenix.

Topologist

Topology is the study of geometric properties and spatial relations unaffected by the continuous change of shape or size of figures.