Prefixes
This prefix means through or thoroughly.
What is "per".
This names a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
This idiom means to be excited.
What is "on top of the world".
This is at the beginning of a story or article and the font is usually bigger and bolded.
What is the title?
This root word means to carry.
What is "port"?
This prefix means before.
What is "pre".
This is an action word. It tells what the subject of a sentence does or tells its state of being.
What is a verb.
This idiom means to be sad.
What does feeling blue mean?
Another term for the section headings in an article that help the reader understand what the section is mainly about.
This root word means to see.
What is "vis"?
These prefixes means not.
What are un, non, and dis?
This word describes how, how often, when, where, and to what extent. It often describes verbs but can also describe adjectives.
What is an adverb?
This idiom means to be scared.
What does "cold feet" mean?
These help readers visualize the ideas in the text.
What are images or pictures?
This root word means to break.
What is "rupt"?
This popular prefix means to do again.
What is "re"?
This word describes qualities or things.
What is an adjective?
This idiom means to laugh.
What does to "crack up" mean?
These words are outside the main text and help describe a picture or graph.
What is a caption?
This root word means to look.
What is "spect"?
There are many prefixes in math. This one means hundred.
What is "centi"?
Slowly and curious are examples of these parts of speech.
What are an adverb and adjective.
This idiom means to goof around or have fun.
What does to "horse around" mean?
A new one of these is easy to spot in a text because it is indented.
What is a paragraph?
This root word means to throw?
What is "ject"?