Stems
This stem lets you know that pterodactyls have wings.
What is PTER?
This stem helps explain why Casey DOES NOT suffer from insomnia, since he sleeps through this class most days.
What is SOMN?
This stem tells you that books, buildings, and bodies were burned during the Holocaust?
What is CAUST?
These two stems tell you that a monochromatic unicycle only has one wheel and one color.
What are UNI and MONO?
This stem tells you that a carnivore only eats meat.
What is VORE?
These stems tell you that a person with anemia that has a hemorrhage would be covered in lots of blood.
What are EMIA and HEMO?
This stem tells you that most of you have made enough progress this year that you will take the next step in your life and move on to high school.
What is GRESS?
Words like import and euphoria carry both of these stems.
What are PORT and PHOR?
This stem lets you know that your biceps are made up of two strands of muscles.
What is BI?
This stem tells you that a fraternity is a group of brothers within the same organization.
What is FRAT?
This stem tells you what everyone knows about a dysfunctional family: it's a bad family to grow up with.
What is DYS?
This stem tells you that fiction is something the author makes up.
What is FIC?
You should know that Han Solo likes to do things alone because of this stem.
What is SOL?
You know triangles have three sides because of this stem.
What is TRI?
Remember that isosceles triangles have equal sides with this stem.
What is ISO?
This stem is part of an accurate description for all of you logophiles out there: students who love words!
What is PHILE?
Both of these stems should tell you that water is a key part of any aquarium or hydroelectric power plant.
What are AQUA and HYDRO?
Just as Death tells you at the beginning of The Book Thief, this stem helps you know what it means to be mortal.
What is MORT?
A tetrahedron has four sides; easily recognized because of this stem.
What is TETRA?
You can tell the reason why parents use pacifiers for their babies so they can have a moment of peace because of this stem.
What is PAC?
All five of these stems cooperate with each other to connect in a way that synchronizes perfectly with the symmetry we all love when we combine words together to create a sentence.
What are CO, COM, CON, SYM, & SYN?
I feel sympathy for the team that can't figure out which stem this is.
What is PATH?
This stem tells you that both eyes are needed when using binoculars.
What is OCUL?
Students were easily able to identify the pentagon while in Washington, D.C. because it was named for its five-angled construction.
What is PENTA?
It would be quite pleasing to wish you congratulations for knowing this stem.
What is GRAT?