Root Word: Flex/Flect

to bend around or curve

• circumflex
• deflect
• reflect
• retroflex

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

to turn or move to one side; to bend; to swerve

• deflect
• flexor
• inflexible
• flexible

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

capable of bending without breaking

• flexible
• reflect
• reflex angle
• inflection

a muscle that bends a part of the body, such as an arm or a leg

• flexor
• inflection
• circumflex
• deflect

the bending of a person's voice so that it does not sound boring or within only one tone; making one's voice go up and down

• inflection
• reflect
• reflection
• retroflex

not capable of being bent without breaking

• inflexible
• flexible
• deflect
• reflect

to bend or throw back light or heat; to fold or turn back

• reflect
• reflection
• retroflex
• circumflex

the image in a mirror that is a result of bending light when it is thrown back

• reflection
• reflect
• reflex angle
• deflect

an angle that is greater than 180 degrees because the angle is bent beyond a straight line

• reflex angle 
• flexor
• flexible
• inflection

bent or turned backward

• retroflex
• reflex angle
• flexor
• reflect