vit, viv / sym, syn
A hospital checks your blood pressure, breathing rate, pulse and temperature every two to four hours. They are known as this.
What are your vital signs?
She has established her position as a bona fide celebrity. Define bona fide.
What is good, true, or authentic?
A person who is ambidextrous is able to do this with equal ease.
What is use both hands for writing, etc. with equal ability?
A group that does not functional well is called this.
What is dysfunctional?
Something that can be eaten is called this. (adjective)
What is edible?
When you synthesize in ELA, you are doing this.
What is you put together the ideas and findings of multiple sources in order to make an overall point?
This is the term that means to remove troops or people; to make empty.
What is evacuate?
Telephone, television, and telescope are common English words. Break up EACH word into roots with their meanings.
telephone = hearing from a distance
television - viewing from a distance
telescope = seeing from a distance
Neonatal nurses and doctors tend to this type of patient.
What are newborns?
The United States currently has 27 of these. It means a result of a change. (noun)
What are amendments?
Mammals are born to a viviparous mother. Explain the meaning of viviparous.
What is being born alive (rather than hatching from an egg)?
FYI: Parous = to produce or give birth to
This is a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages.
What is a beneficiary?
An ambiguous response on a test may not receive full credit because of this.
What is the answer is open to more than one interpretation; it has a double meaning?
A person who has great difficulty learning to read or spell has this.
What is dyslexia?
If you are in a direction toward the sea, you would use this word. (adverb)
What is seaward?
This word explains the relationship between bees that eat nectar from flowers that get cross-pollinated when the bees move from one to the next.
What is symbiosis?
bio = life; symbiosis = living together (relationship between living things that helps all of them stay alive)
This is the term in space in which there is no matter or in which the pressure is so low that any particles in the space do not affect any processes being carried on there.
What is a vacuum?
This is the direct transference of thoughts and feelings from one person to another.
What is telepathy?
FYI: pathy = feeling
This is a newly coined word or phrase.
What is neologism?
If someone causes something to happen in a hurry, this verb may be used.
What is hasten?