Root Words
This is the main part of a word.
What is a root word?
This comes at the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix?
This comes at the end of a word.
What is a suffix?
These are ancient stories that usually tell how something came to be.
What are myths?
These were invented to explain events in nature that people did not understand.
What are mythical creatures?
This root word means "life".
What is bio?
This is the prefix in REPLAY.
What is re-?
This is the suffix that means "one who" as in the word teacher.
What is a moral lesson?
Even though this might seem like a mythical creature it is not one.
What is a giant squid?
The root word in the word "reflect" means to bend.
What is -flect?
This prefix means under.
What is Sub-?
This suffix means full of.
What is -ful?
Gods and goddesses must have these.
What are supernatural abilities?
This is what mythical creatures are, or in other words make-believe or imagined.
What is pretend?
The root word in the word "dictate" means this.
What is "to speak"?
This is the prefix in the word "mistake" meaning "wrongly."
What is -mis?
This suffix means "without."
What is -less?
True or false: gods and goddesses have a human appearance
true
True or False: The ancient Chinese believed that dragons were real.
True.
What is "to see"?
This is how you would say something is NOT complete.
What is incomplete?
What is by adding an -ly?
This is what the myth Arachne the Spinner explains.
Why are there spiders?
This is how much the giant squid weighed when they found it.
What is almost a ton?