Flect and Flex Root Vocabulary

capable of bending without breaking

• flexible

• flexor

• inflection

• inflexible

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

• flexor

• reflect

• reflection

• reflex angle

an angle that is greater than 180 degrees because the angle is bent

beyond the straight line

• retroflex

• flexor

• reflex angle

• deflect

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

back

• circumflex

• inflexible

• reflect

• reflection

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

• deflect

• retroflex

• flexor

to bend around or curve

• reflex angle

• circumflect

• reflect

• inflection

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

• reflect

• reflection

• deflect

• retroflex

bent or turned backward

• circumflex

• flexor

• deflect

• retroflect

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

• flexor

• flexible

• deflect

• inflexible

capable of bending without breaking

• deflect

• flexor

• reflection

• flexible