<p> Word Within the Word Stems List 20 Do you know these words? Stem Stem Examples POS Definition Definition PICK ONE TO DEFINE! Mela black melanin, melamine, melancholy Vice in place of vice president, vice versa, viceroy foli leaf folio, foliage, foliation atom vapor atomic, atomize, subatomic orb circle orbit, exorbitant, orbital, orbicular multi many multifarious, multiply, multilateral ign fire ignite, igneous, ignition, reignite moll soft mollify, emollient, mollusk lin line linear, delineate, lineage, lineal hemi half hemisphere, hemipterous, hemicranias oo egg oophyte, oology, oogenesis grade step gradual, grading, retrograde, downgrade pneum lung pneumonia, pneumogastric o radi ray radiation, radial, radiance, irradiate oscu mouth osculum, osculation, osculant, osculate ob against obloquy, obdurate, oblique, obsolete vect carry convection, vector, invective, vectorial digit finger digital, digitation, presdigitation gymno naked gymnasium, gymnastics plasm form cytoplasm, endoplasm, ectoplasm narco sleep narcolepsy, narcotism, narcotic vermi worm vermin, vermicelli, vermicide lign wood lignite, ligneous, lignify dendr tree dendrology, dendroid, dendrite lachry tear lachrymal, lachrymose Assignment Due Date</p><p>HW 1 - Complete Context Clues (on worksheet) & Flashcards</p><p>HW 2 - define words </p><p>HW 3 - define words </p><p>HW 4 – Mystery Questions done in complete sentences </p><p>HW 1: Context Clues. Using your knowledge of stems, select the word that best fits in the blank. Write the letter in the margin AND circle your choice! Do not use a dictionary for this section!!!</p><p>___1. The gloomy soul was unable to overcome her ______. a. melancholy b. mollify c. osculum d. defoliant</p><p>___2. We could do nothing to ______the man’s anger. a. melancholy b. mollify c. osculum d. defoliant</p><p>___3. ______is paralysis on one side of the body. a. delineate b. hemisphere c. hemiplegia d. hemialgia</p><p>___4. The nodding man suffered from ______. a. radiolarians b. convection c. narcotics d. narcolepsy</p><p>___5. ______leaves are circular and flat. a. oologist b. atomizer c. orbicular d. atomic</p><p>HW 4: Mystery Questions. Answer the following questions in complete sentences and be sure to explain your answer and define the words in the analogies. 1.) Is a lachrymose story hilarious?</p><p>2.) Would you love to receive the obloquy of your peers?</p><p>3.) Does the earth’s interior heat produce igneous or sedimentary rocks?</p><p>4.) Do the dendrites of a nerve have a large number of branches?</p><p>5.) Could you be arrested for narcolepsy?</p><p>6.) obstinate : obdurate :: 14.) 7.) 15.) 8.) oblique : slanting 16.)ligneous : igneous :: 9.) vermicide : vermin 17.) 10.) intractable : incorrigible 18.) coal : wood 11.) multiply : divide 19.) fire : tree 12.) 20.) wood : fire 13.) 21.) ignis fatuus : lignocellulose</p>