Prefixes
What is the prefix in the word preview?
What is Pre?
Keisha's surname is Taylor and her middle name is Olivia. Using context clues from the sentence what does surname mean?
What is last name?
Bio means life and ology means study of, so Biology is this.
What is the study of life?
Do this to the word tree to make it plural
What is add s?
A two letter prefix that means again
What is re?
She turned her biggest foe into her best friend. Using context clues it is what foe means.
What is enemy?
Cardiology is the study of this. (Hint: You do cardio to work your heart muscles.)
What is study of the heart?
Do this to a present tense verb to make it past tense
What is add -ed?
One of two prefixes that means not
What is un or in?
He was a good scholar who got all A's. Using context clues you can figure out that scholar means this.
What is a student?
If a word has a prefix, a root word, and a suffix this is where you would find the root word
What is the middle or between the prefix and suffix?
The suffix is added to this part of the word
What is the end?
Of anti, mis, and inter, the one that means wrongly.
What is mis?
The meaning of pedestrians in the following sentence. Pedestrians should look both ways before crossing the street.
What is walker?
In Greek it's aqua in Latin it is hydra. A more common English word for either aqua or hydra is this.
What is water?
The suffix in interchangeable
What is able?
This three letter prefix means the opposite of
What is dis?
Using context clues figure out what abolished means. Slavery was abolished after The Civil War.
What is outlawed or stopped?
The epidermis is the top layer of skin. A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in skin disorders. So the root word that means skin is this.
What is derm?
This suffix means capable of
What is able?