Unit 1 Roots
This root means hear, listen.
What is -aud?
This root means feeling or suffering.
This prefix means before or ahead of time.
What is -fore or pre?
A word with the suffix -tion is likely to be this part of speech.
What is a noun?
This word means the tone and associations a word carries with it.
What is connotation?
This root means speak, say, tell.
This root means time.
What is -chron or chrono?
This prefix means wrongly or badly.
What is -mis?
What is a verb?
This word means a word is not being used in the literal sense.
What is figuartive?
This root means taste.
What is -gust?
This root means write.
What is -graph, -graphy, or -gram?
This prefix means together or with.
What is -con or -com?
A word with the suffix -ous is likely to be this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
This type of context clue is used in the following sentence:
I'm not just hungry, I'm famished.
What is a restatement clue?
This root means make or weave.
These roots means not or against.
What is -a, -an, -ana, -anti, or -ant?
This prefix means under or less than.
What is -sub?
A word with the suffix -able is likely to be this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
This type of context clue is used in the following sentence:
On frigid days, I like to wear two pair of socks.
What is an inference clue?
This root means strike or hit.
What is -flict?
This root means nature.
What is -phys?
This prefix means again or back.
What is -re?
A word with the suffix -er is likely to be this part of speech.
What is a noun?
This type of context clue is used in the following sentence:
Santa Claus is friendly, but the Grinch is misanthropic.
What is a contrast clue?