Word Within the Word
Stems List 15
Stem
Stem Definition
Do you know these words?
Examples
Definition (Part of Speech MUST be
PICK ONE TO DEFINE!
included!)
heliotrope, troposphere, trophy
tropo
turn
gastro
stomach
arthro
joint
dors
back
dorsal, dorsoventral, dorsum, dorsal
fin
macro
large
macrobiotic, macrocosm, macron,
macroscopic
dextro
right or clockwise
brachy
short
brachio
arm
branchio
gills
kin
motion
phylo
kind
blasto
embryo
dactylo
finger
phos
light
gon
angle
lite
mineral or fossil
vore
eating
omnivore, herbivore, carnivore,
voracious, devour
holo
whole
Holocaust, hologram, holograph,
holistic
haplo
single or simple
opia
sight
lent
full of
ef
out
gastronomy, gastropod, gastroscope
arthritis, arthropod, arthroscopic
dextrose, dextral, dexterity, dexterous
brachycephalic, brachypterous
brachiopod, brachiation, brachiate
branchiopod, branchiate, branchia
kinetic, kinescope, hyperkinetic
phylum, phylogeny, phyla,
phylogenesis
blastocyst, blastogenesis
pterodactyl, dactylology, dactylic
phosphorus, phosphene,
phosphororscope
pentagon, tetragon, decagon,
hexagonal, diagonal
anthracite, perlite, cryolite, stalactite,
halite
haploid, haplopia, haplosis
myopia, hyperopia, synopsis, biopsy
corpulent, virtulent, turbulent,
excellent, indolent
effusive, effulgent, efflux, efficacy
radium, sodium, uranium, germanium
ium
an element
dicho
in two parts
ventri
belly
dichotomy, dichotomize, dichotomist
ventricle, ventriloquist, ventral
Assignment
Due Date
HW 1 - Complete Context Clues (on worksheet)
HW 2 - define words
HW 3 - define words
HW 4 – Mystery Questions done in complete sentences
HW 1: Context Clues. Using your knowledge of stems, select the word that best fits in the blank. Write the word on the
blank line AND circle your choice! Do not use a dictionary for this section!!!
___1. In time warm bread lost its _________, and became hard as a stone.
a. synopsis
b. succulence
c. dichotomy
d. virulence
___2. The spoiled child of life thought his weak tears in some way __________________.
a. efficacious
b. diagonal
c. voracious
d. dichotomous
___3. There was a soft __________ in the east.
a. arthralgia
b. Holocaust
c. turbulence
___4. I never met people more __________ or more easily fatigued.
a. indolent
b. omnivorous
c. effusive
d. effulgence
d. dexterous
___5. I perused, for the first time, those poets whose ___________ entranced my soul.
a. effusions
b. effluvia
c. heliotropes
d. macrocosms
HW 4: Mystery Questions. Answer the following questions in complete sentences in the Academic Vocabulary section of
your 5 subject notebook.
Be sure to explain your answer and define the words in the analogies.
1.) Is a cold, unfriendly greeting effusive?
2.) Is a dactylogram a fingerprint?
3.) Is a hypokinetic person extremely overactive?
4.) Is a synopsis a summary?
5.) Is double vision haplopia or diplopia?
6.) macrocosm : telecsope ::
microcosm : microscope
microscope : telescope
television : film
gastroscope : gastropod
7.) fructivorous : geophagous::
herbivorous : plant
chloroplast : chlorophyll
apple : dirt
eat : hunger