Root Words
This word means "good."
Bene
This word means a structure located in front of another part. For example, your breastbone's (sternum) position relative to your spine.
Anterior
This word refers broadly to everyone who will be alive in times to come and specifically to a person's children, grandchildren, and all further family lineage
Posterity
The distinctive way in which a writer uses language - from how he/she puts sentences together to his/her choice of vocabulary and use of literary devices.
Style
For thirty years, beginning [in the late 1960s], B.C. "Bill" Wolverton, an environmental scientist, performed research for the U.S. government on using houseplants to improve indoor air quality.
Prepositional Phrase
This word means "bad."
Mal
Something that comes before or sets the stage for something else. For example, Marie is one for her in the following sentence: Marie has lost her keys.
Antecedent
This word means situated at or toward the back or rear.
Posterior
Images and/or details that emphasize our senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch).
Sensory details
For thirty years, beginning in the late 1960s, B.C. "Bill" Wolverton, [an environmental scientist], performed research for the U.S. government on using houseplants to improve indoor air quality.
Appositive
This word means "before."
Ante
A small outer room that serves as an entrance or waiting area leading into a larger, more important room.
Antechamber
This term represents a late 20th-century intellectual, cultural, and artistic movement that rejects absolute truths, objective reality, and grand universal narratives in favor of skepticism, irony, and subjective interpretation
Post-modern
The act of repeating words or phrases for dramatic effect
Repetition
For thirty years, beginning in the late 1960s, B.C. "Bill" Wolverton, an environmental scientist, performed research for the U.S. government on using houseplants [to improve indoor air quality].
Infinitive
This word means "after."
Post
This word means "before the war."
Antebellum
An extra note or thought added to the end of a letter, document, or book after the writer's main signature
Postscript
The repetition of similar initial consonant sounds within a phrase or sentence.
Alliteration
My brother [Michael] will be home for the entire summer
Appositive
This word is the verb form of a root meaning "to write."
Graph
With the Prime Meridian, this line forms a full circle that splits the Earth into the Eastern and Western hemispheres .
Antemeridian
A Latin phrase that means "after noon" or "after midday." It is the origin of the abbreviation p.m. or PM, which is used in the 12-hour clock system to mark time from noon until just before midnight.
Postmeridian
The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words.
Assonance
In the second half of the basketball game, our team, hoping [to maintain our narrow lead], played a zone defense, keeping our oppnents away from the basket.
Infinitive Phrase