Words with Prefixes
Words with Suffixes
Vocabulary Words
Base Words
Root Words
100
This word means "wrongly understood."
What is "misunderstood."?
100
This word means "full of hope."
What is "hopeful"?
100
This word means "very large or huge."
What is "immense?"
100
In the word "brotherly" the word brother is called this.
What is baseword?
100
Many of our English words are made of roots from another language that is no longer spoken. Name that language.
What is Latin?
200
This prefix, when added to a baseword or root, changes it's meaning to "before." Name that prefix.
What is pre?
200
This suffix means "without."
What is -less?
200
This word means "unnecessary items that provide great comfort."
What is luxuries?
200
Name the baseword in the following word: subsurface.
What is surface?
200
Tell the root of this word: portable.
What is port?
300
This prefix means: forward
What is -pro?
300
There are several suffixes that mean "a person who." Name two of them.
What is -ent, -or, -er, or -ist.
300
This word means to look like someone or something else.
What is resemble?
300
Name the baseword in the following: contentment.
What is content?
300
This root means to loosen or release.
What is solve.
400
What word means "able to be broken?"
What is breakable?
400
This word means "a person who creates art."
What is artist?
400
This word means "an object that someone owns."
What is possession?
400
Name the baseword in the following: assistant
What is assist?
400
This root means "tight."
What is strict?
500
This prefix means "around."
What is -peri or -circum?
500
This word means "The state of being desperate."
What is desperation?
500
This word means "something is necessary and you truly need it."
What is essential?
500
Name the baseword in the following word: reheatable.
What is heat?
500
In the words "Hydroelectricity, dehydrate, hydrogen, and hydrant, the root is "hydr." Tell the meaning of this root.
What is water?
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