How Well Do You Know Your Affixes?

Prefixes

100

Co-

What is Together/With?

(Cooperate, collect, communicate, concert, correlate, etc.)

200

Dis-

What is Opposite of/Not?

(Disorganized, discomfort, disengage, dislike, etc.)

300

Ex-

What is Out?

(Exhale, exit, exclude, etc.)

400

Tele-

What is Distant?

(Telephone, telepathy, teleport, etc.)

500

Retro-

What is Backward?

(Retroactive, retrograde, retrospective

Suffixes

100

-Able/ible

What is Able to Be?

(enjoyable, approachable, durable, adorable, etc.)

200

-Er/or/eer

What is Someone Who...?

(Trainer, doctor, engineer, survivor, etc.)

300

-Fy

What is to Make or Become?

(Magnify, terrify, personify, nullify, etc.)

400

-Ous

What is Full of? (turns a noun into an adjective)

(Dangerous, prosperous, curious, nutritious, etc.)

500

-Ize

What is to Make/cause to become? (turns a noun/adjective into a verb)

(Magnetize, italicize, familiarize, )

Numerical Prefixes

100

Semi-

What is Half?

(semicircle, semester, semifinal, semiaquatic, etc.)

200

Cent-

What is 100?

(Century, centimeter, centenarian, percent, etc.)

300

Dec-

What is 10?

(Decimal, decade, decagon, December, etc.)

400

Mil-

What is 1,000?

(Millenium, millipede, millimeter, etc.)

500

Penta-

What is 5?

(Pentagon, Iambic Pentameter, Pentathlon,)

Opposites!

100

Pre/Post

What are Before and After?

(Preview, prediction, postpone, postgraduate, etc.)

200

Hyper/hypo

What are Over and Under (or too much and too little)?

(hyperactive, hyperbolic, hypothermia, hypoglycemia, etc.)

300

Micro/macro

What are Small and Large?

(Microscope, microorganism, macroscopic, macromolecule, etc.)

400

Super/Sub

What are Above and Below?

(Supernatural, supervisor, superimpose, submarine, subway, subjugate)

500

Inter/Intra

What are Between and Within?

(interpersonal, interact, international, intrapersonal, intravenous, intramural, etc.)