Word Formation

Opposites

100

What is the opposite of legal?

ILLEGAL

200

What is the opposite of friendly?

UNFRIENDLY

300

What is opposite of responsible?

IRRESPONSIBLE

400

What is the opposite of understand?

MISUNDERSTAND

500

What is the opposite of respectful?

DISRESPECTFUL

Prefixes and suffixes

100

Add an affix to POLITE

IMPOLITE - POLITENESS - POLITELY - IMPOLITELY

200

What do you call a person who can't wait? (patience)

IMPATIENT

300

What do you call a situation in which people don't agree? You say there's a ...

DISAGREEMENT

400

If a person can wear casual clothes, they should dress...

INFORMALLY - CASUALLY

500

Add an suffix to the word colour.

COLOURFUL

Word category

100

What category of a word is COLOURFULLY?

ADVERB

200

What category of a word is DISTINCTION?

NOUN

300

What category of a word is SADNESS?

NOUN

400

What category of a word is ADDICTIVE?

ADJECTIVE

500

What category of a word is SIMPLY?

ADVERB

Suffixes in context

100

Babies have to get an inject___ to protect them from serious diseases.

INJECTION

200

I’m real_____. I know people can’t save the world.

REALISTIC

300

We’ll have to short_____ this exercise. It’s too long.

SHORTEN

400

In heavy rain, water levels rise rapid_____.

RAPIDLY

500

My uncle is a care_____ driver. He’s had many accidents.

CARELESS

Prefixes in context

100

What you’re asking is simply _____possible. We can’t do it.

IMPOSSIBLE

200

Don’t throw away that envelope. You could _____use it.

REUSE

300

You _____understood. I said ‘peach cake’ not ‘beefsteak’.

misunderstood

400

If you fail the exam once, you can _____take it later.

RETAKE

500

Sabin is really sad because his girlfriend has been ____faithful to him.

UNFAITHFUL