Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots
A Latin prefix meaning before.
What is pre?
An Anglo-Saxon prefix meaning back or again.
What is re?
This "vowel" makes a short i sound in closed syllable Greek words.
What is y?
This is the spelling of /shun/ for a person.
What is cian?
This word comes from Germanic folklore, in which an evil female spirit sits upon a sleeper’s chest giving them bad dreams.
What is a nightmare?
These two suffixes mean "able to".
What are able and ible?
An Anglo-Saxon prefix meaning before.
What is fore?
This is the rarest spelling of the long sound o.
What is oe?
This kind of suffix must be added to a CVC word/syllable in order to double the final consonant.
What is a vowel suffix?
This word comes from the influence of the Earl John Montagu. 250 years ago, he requested that his valet bring him beef served between two slices of bread so his hands wouldn’t get greasy from the meat and thus spoil the cards. Others began asking for the same by referring to where he was from, thus this word was born.
What is sandwich?
These 2 Latin roots mean to bend.
What are flex and flect?
These 2 Anglo-Saxon prefixes mean "not".
What are un and non?
Which vowel remains short before a Latin suffix?
What is i?
This is the correctspelling of the word in+con+/seev/+/uh-bl/.
What is inconceivable?
This word has its origins in the devastating plague which swept across Europe in the 14th century, wiping out around 30% of Europe’s population. It comes from the Italian words “quaranta giorni”, or “forty days”, in reference to the fact that, in an effort to halt the spread of the plague, ships were put into isolation on nearby islands for a forty-day period before those on board were allowed ashore.
What is quarantine?
This word literally means "to pull under".
What is subtract?
These two Anglo-Saxon suffixes mean "the state of being".
What are ness and hood.
This is what we call the lazy vowel sound.
What is schwa?
This is the "Y Rule for Spelling".
What is "vowel-y keep the y, consonant-y change to an i"?
This word derives from Greek mythology. In Greek mythology, Ariadne gives Theseus a ball of yarn to help him find his way out of the maze. Because of this, the word came to mean something that points the way in a confusing situation or mystery.
What is clue?
This word literally means "the act of pulling forward".
What is protraction?
This Anglo-Saxon word literally means "more than one not essential thing.
What is nonessentials?
These 2 vowels have the most spelling variations.
What are e and a?
This rule is used to differentiate when to use the spellings ei and ie.
What is "i before e except after c"?
This British and American condiment originated in 17th-century China as a sauce of pickled fish and spices. Known in the Chinese Amoy dialect as kôe-chiap or kê-chiap, its name developed over time into what we call it now.
What is ketchup?