Power Suffixes for Eleventh Grade Students: -ology

With the lay staff gone and only three elderly priests left on the faculty, education at St. Vincent de Paul Academy consisted mostly of theology, Latin, and church history. The Dead and the Gone

Since the earth is made up mostly of rocks, geology is mostly the study of rocks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story

"Originally, at the start of year 12, I chose biology and chemistry because I wanted to do medicine," said Zoe. BBC (Aug 12, 2019)

Anatomy made clear the machinery: physiology the work which it did, and the conditions under which the work was done. Clodd, Edward

“This society is unforgiving, relentless, and the competition is constant,” Andrew Eungi Kim, a sociology professor at Korea University, one of the country’s most elite schools, told me. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

This, Winston was aware, was not meant altogether seriously, but somehow it fitted in with the general ideology of the Party. 1984

The 23-week course includes weekly zoology lectures and behind-the-scenes visits to the animal exhibits. Los Angeles Times (Jul 4, 2019)

Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota, part of the Ojibwe tribe, and then pursued a doctorate in anthropology, with an emphasis on past and present native life. Washington Post (Dec 31, 2018)

Based on its preoccupation with matters linguistic and literary— in short, on philology—we might regard the Museum as the world’s first department of classics. Circumference

And this is the great principle on which the science of meteorology rests, not only as to winds, but as to weather changes. M'Pherson, J. G.