Prefixes-Define it!
PRE-
before
-ER
person connected with or one who...; more (ex. farm - farmer)
She reheated the soup from last night.
heated again
Her kind___ shows when she helps people.
kindness - state of being kind
non-fiction
real, not pretend (A biography is non-fiction because it's the real story of someone's life
UN-
not
-ABLE
able to be (agree / agreeable)
The pretest was just a practice test.
test BEFORE the real test
My teacher gave me a pencil and asked me to __write the sentence more neatly.
rewrite - write again
obstacle
a problem or something that gets in the way of meeting a goal
RE-
again
-EST
the most (great / greatest)
not able to be believed
When I jumped off the swing, I felt fear___. I wasn't afraid at all!
fearless - without fear, no fear
premature
before one is mature (the premature baby was 4 weeks early)
MIS-
wrong, wrongly, not
-FUL
full of (beauty / beautiful)
They disagree about whose turn it is to wash the dishes.
do not agree
My teacher __abled my internet access. No more gaming!
disabled - not able to be used or accessed
reorganize
to organize again
DIS-
not, opposite of
-LESS
without, not (hope / hopeless)
She misunderstood the recipe and put too much salt in the cake.
understood wrongly
If you judge someone before you really know them, you may __judge them. He/She may not be what you first thought.
misjudge - judge wrongly
excerpt
taken out of - I read a great excerpt from that book. Now I want to read the entire book!