Week 1 Words
Affix Meanings
Pulling with TRACT
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Morpheme Detectives
100

This word means “full of hope.”

Hopefull

100

This suffix means “full of.”

-full

100

The Latin root tract has this meaning.

What is to pull

100

Combine hope + -ful.

hopeful

100

Name the base word in hopeless.

hope

200

This word describes having no hope.

Hopeless

200

This suffix means “without” or “lacking.”

-less

200

This farm vehicle pulls machinery or equipment.

tractor
200

Combine kind + -ness.

kindness

200

Name the two morphemes in retract.

re- and tract

300

This word means the quality of being caring and helpful.

Kindness

300

This suffix means “without” or “lacking.”

un-

300

This word means to pull someone’s attention away.

distract

300

Combine un- + do + -ing.

undoing

300

In tractor, this suffix means “one who does or makes.”

-or

400

This word means reversing an action or result.

Undoing

400

This suffix means “quality or state of.”

-ness

400

A turtle does this when it pulls its head back into its shell.

retract

400

Combine dis- + tract.

distract

400

The prefix in distract means this.

away or apart

500

This word names an area where neighbors live.

neighborhood

500

This suffix means a “state, condition, or group.”

-hood

500

This math word means to remove something from a whole.

subtract

500

Combine sub- + tract + -ed.

subtracted

500

Name all three morphemes in neighborhood.

neighbor + -hood

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