Common Prefixes
Prefix meaning back or again
What is RE
To deliberately destroy an object
What is destruct?
The action or process of building
What is construction?
To pull or draw out from
What is extract?
Define autobiography
a piece of writing written by a person's life written by someone else.
Prefix meaning with or together
What is CON?
To block or fill with obstacles
What is obstruct?
The act of destroying; a state of damage
What is destruction?
To draw together
What is contract?
Define Antisocial
against the basic rules of a group; harmful to the people in the group
Prefix meaning beneath
What is INFRA?
The act of putting back together
What is reconstruction?
To put back together again
What is reconstruct?
To draw or pull back
What is retract?
to build the wrong meaning to misunderstand; to interpret the wrong way
Misconstrue
Prefix meaning from, away, down, apart; not
What is DE?
To form by putting together parts
What is construct?
That which is built in a particular way
What is structure?
Process of pulling back
What is retraction?
to build again
reconstruct
Prefix meaning to, toward, against
What is OB?
The underlying framework of a system
What is infrastructure?
An obstacle put up against something else
What is obstruction?
Act of drawing together or shrinking
What is contraction?
to write down a record' to translate
transcribe