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- pronunciation:
- saI
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When people are studying nature or humans in a very careful way and testing what they believe about these things, they are doing science. In school, when you learn about science, you learn what people know about plants, animals, the human body, the earth, the stars, and other planets.
I like learning about science. We learned about the parts of a flower today. |
Science comes from a Latin word that means "knowledge."
The word science
contains the following parts:
sci
Latin
root
that means to know
  Example words:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence and acceptance. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
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