Latin Prefixes
This process involves a prefix dropping, adding, or changing its final consonant to match or make easier its pronunciation with a base.
What is assimilation?
This suffix means "to kill"
What is "-cide"?
This base means "leaf".
What is "foli-"?
Break down "involvement"
What is "in + volv + e + ment"?
An ambulatory person can do this.
What is "walk"?
This prefix means "against"
What is "contra-"?
These suffixes means "to make"
What are "-ate", "-fy", and "-ize"?
This base means "many, much"
What is "multi-?"
Break down corruption [give correct dictionary spellings]
What is con + rupt + ion?
The purpose of a lactifuge.
What is to stop/diminish milk?
These prefixes can mean "many".
What are "multi-" and "plur-".
This nominal suffix can designate something as "little" or mean the "result of".
What is "-cle"?
This base means "to bore, to pierce".
What is for-?
Break down deflorescence.
What is de + flor + esc + ence.
This word means a "person trained to care for the dead"
What is "mortician"?
Identify the prefix in "illuminate" and its meaning.
What is "in-" meaning "in".
This suffix can mean "place of" when acting as a noun or mean "belongs to" as an adjective.
What is "-ary"?
This base alternate spelling can mean both "to hold" and "to stretch".
What is "tent-"?
Break down intermediate.
What is "inter + medi + ate"?
This word means "the result of emptying out", e.g. of the bowls.
What is "evacuation"?
These prefixes mean "apart".
What are "dis-" and "se-"?
This suffix, although adjectival, generally is used as a substantive.
What is "-an"?
This base can be confused with the prefix "7", but it's actual meaning is the following:
What is "fence"?
Break down attributable.
What is "ad + tribut + able"?
This term means lit. "to begin to live again", e.g. indicating the renewal of vital activities.
What is "reviviscence"?