science
organized knowledge tested by observation
Root
- sci / scire: know, understand, or be aware
Other words with the sci / scire root
- conscience: inner sense of right and wrong
- conscientious: careful and guided by duty or conscience
- conscious: awake or aware
- prescience: knowledge of events before they happen
- prescient: seeming to know what will happen before it does
Science is the familiar doorway: knowledge made testable and organized.
Science gave the class a way to test guesses instead of merely repeating them.