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A unit added to the beginning of a word
What is a prefix?
Means small.
What is micro?
These noun suffixes indicate someone or something that does, or is related to, the base word.
What are -er, -or, -ian, & -ist?
The base word of beautify.
What is beauty?
In the words chronological and chronic, chron means this.
What is time?
Main part of a word to which a prefix is added.
What is a base word?
The prefix in the word, monologue.
What is mono?
The suffix in the word musical.
What is -al?
The base word in hypertension.
What is tension?
The latin word FRACT means this.
What is to break?
A letter or group of letters which is added to the end of a word in order to form a different word.
What is a suffix?
Means below or under.
What is sub-?
The suffix for imagination.
What is -ation?
The base word in recognition.
What is recognize?
The meaning of hypercompetitive.
What is acting overly competitive?
A letter or group of letters attached to the beginning or end of a word.
What is an affix?
Means again or back.
What is re-?
The suffixes -ary, -ery, & -ory signal these two parts of speech.
What is noun and adjective?
The base word in hypersensitivity.
What is sensitive?
Mis- in the words mistake, misbehave, mislead, misuse means this.
What is wrongly?
Main part of a word derived from Greek or Latin that needs a prefix to be a word.
What is a root word?
The prefix in the word, aftertaste.
What is after-?
The suffix -y changes words to this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
The base word in hostility.
What is hostile?
The word inspection is made up of the prefix in-, the Latin root spect, and the suffix -ion. I use the meaning of the Latin root spect and the other word parts to analyze the meaning of the word. The Latin root spect means “look at.” The prefix in- means “into” and the suffix -ion means “the act of or result of something.” Combined, the meanings of the word parts define the word inspection as this.
What is “the act of looking into something?”