Prefixes
Suffixes
Affixes
Bases
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100

Identify the prefix in "election."

What is <e>?

100

What is the common suffix in these words:

courage

stage

village


What is <-age>?

100

Identify all the affixes in the word "immigration."

What is <im>, <ate> and <ion>?

100

From Greek, meaning "feeling."

What is <path>?

100

From the heart as the seat of feeling, to facing something with bravery.

What is courage.

200

Identify the prefix in "perhaps."

What is <per>?

200

Identify the suffixes in the word "discouragingly."

What is <age>, <ing> and <ly>?

200

Identify all the affixes in the word "empathy."

What is <em> and <y>?

200

From Latin, meaning "to gather."

What is <lect>?

200

To gather or bring together. 

What is "collect"?

300

What does the prefix <sym> in "sympathy" mean?

What is "together, with"?


sympathy="being together with feeling"  

300

The meaning of the suffix <-ing> in "happening," "encouraging," and "collecting."

What is doing something now, present tense.

300

Identify all the affixes in the word "congratulate".

What is <con>,  <ule> and <ate>?

300

From Latin, meaning "heart."

What is <cour>?

300

Having no feelings about something that someone else might care about.

What is "apathy"?

400

Identify the prefixes in "recollected."

What are <re> and <col>?

400

Identify the suffixes in the word "magically."

What is <ic>, <al> and <ly>?

400

Identify all the affixes in the word "selection."

What is <sel> and <ion>?

400

From Old Norse, meaning "chance, luck."

What is <hap>?

400

The quality or condition of being happy.

What is "happiness"?

500

What do the prefixes <mis->, <dis-> and <un-> have in common?

mishap, misjudge, misspell

discourage

unselected

They all share a sense of negativity, "wrong," "not," or "opposite of."

500

Is <-age> a suffix in the following words:

baggage

page

postage

Only "baggage" and "postage" have the suffix <age>. 

In "page," the <a>, <g> and <e> are a part of the word. 

500

Identify all the prefixes and suffixes in the word "encouragingly."

What is <en>, <age>,<ing> and <ly>?

500

From Latin, meaning "to move."

What is <migr>?

500

To pass after death to another body.

What is "transmigrate"?