INTERMEDIATE JEOPARDY

Prefix

100

Again

Re-

200

Before

Pre-

300

Badly

Mis-

400

Lower/Less

Under

500

3 prefixes meaning 'not'

In-, Un-, Non-, Im-, Dis-

Suffix

100

-ER changes verbs into... (example: build -> builder)

Nouns

200

-FUL changes nouns into ... (example: wonder -> wonderful)

Adjectives

300

-NESS changes adjectives into (example: thin -> thinness)

Nouns

400

-LY changes adjectives into... (example: quick -> quickly)

Adverbs

500

-IZE changes adjectives into... (example: general -> generalize)

Verbs

Word families

100

List two words in the 'beauty' family

Beautiful, beautifully

200

List two words in the 'happy' family

Happiness, happily, unhappy

300

List two words in the 'good' family

Goodly, goodliness, goodness

400

List two words in the 'change' family

unchanging, changed (adj.), exchange

500

List THREE words in the 'act' family

Interact, react, actor, interaction, active

Review (Context Clues and The Hobbit)

100

What is an antonym?

The opposite of a word (thin -> fat)

200

What is a synonym?

A word that means almost the same thing (cold -> cool)

300

What is background info?

What you already know about the topic of an article

400

What is previewing?

Asking yourself questions about an article or text before you read it

500

Who wrote The Hobbit?

J. R. R. Tolkien