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Prefixes--Place

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The activities are based on the text: Mahnke, M. K, & Duffy, C. (1996). The Heinemann ELT TOEFL Preparation Course. Oxford, UK: Heinemann.

 

Directions: Add the area of meaning and example words from the text.  Find additional example words and give a definition for the additional example words you found using the meaning given for the root or prefix.

 

RESOURCES:

 

Dictionary of Latin & Greek Words in Modern EnglishVocabulary (Put the prefix or root in the search area to find many words and definitions for it.)

Focusing On Words (searchable database of words of Latin and Greek origin, includes definitions for roots, prefixes, and suffixes)

Greek and Latin ROOTS of English (download; searchable for roots and prefixes/suffixes; quizzes included)

 

 

V7: Predict Meaning Using Prefixes--Prefixes for Where

 

 Prefixes for where

 Area of Meaning

 Example Word

 2 Example words of your own

 Definition using the Area of Meaning

 Student

 ac

to, toward

 accrue

accumulate, accommodate

 to add to

to come toward someone/something

 XXXX

ad-

 to, toward

  addiction

 adapt,

adduct

 to adjust,

to draw inward toward the median axis of the body.

Gabriel

 af-

 to,toward

 affirm

 affect

 

affection

 to influence or cause people to change in some way

 

feeling of love or fondness for somene

 

 Yunmi

 ag-

 to, toward

 aggressive

 against

 

aggrandize

Close to or leaning on something; in contact with it.

 

To increase the power, wealth, etc of (a person, country, etc);to make someone or something seem greater than they really are.

 Min Kyung

 an-

 without, not

 

 analyst

 

anagranm

 

anecdote

A word or phrase made from another by rearranging its letters

 

An interesting incident or brief history; story, tale, short narrative;

Jake

 by-

  near

 bystander

byline 

 

bypass

 A line at the top of an article in a newspaper or magazine giving the author's name.

 

 

 If you bypass someone or something that you would normally have to get involved with, you ignore them, often because you want to achieve something more quickly

 

 Jung Won

 em-

        in, into

     empathy

            emotion

           emphasis

              a storong human feeling such as love, hate, or  anger.

 

       special stress laid upon, or importance attached to. anything.

 Yoshinori

 en-

 in

 envelope

 entry

  Coming in or going in

 Maria

 im-

 into

 immerse

 imbue

immersion

  to receive or absorb into the mind and retain

baptism performed by totally submerging a person into the water

 Kanae

 intra-

within

 intramural

 intranet

 

intrasigent

 a computer network used for exchanging or seeing information within a company

 

unwilling to change ideas within your heart or behavior, stubborn

 Ayumi

 intro-

 inside

 introspection

 introjection

 

introduce

 the unconscious adoption of the ideas or attitudes of others

 

bring into use or operation for the first time

 Kaori

 enter-

 

 

 

 

 Pape

 inter-

 between

 amont

 

intercristal

 

intercostal
intercostalgia

 Situated between the ribs; such as, the intercostal muscles, nerves, arteries, etc

Pain between the ribs.

Helena 

 epi-

 

 

 

 

Carlos

 e-

 out, away

 emigrate

 exit,

emit

 to go out,

to throw or give off or out.

 Gabriel

 ex-

 out

 exit

 except

 

 

extinguish

 we use except to introduce the only thing or person that a statement does nor apply to, or a  fact that prevents a statement from being completely true.

 

to stop a fire burning or a light shining

 Yunmi

 extra-

 outside

 extraterrestrial

 extract

 

extrasocial

 

To draw or pull out, often with great force or effort; such as, to extract a wisdom tooth; or to use tweezers to extract a splinter.

 

Space in which the fragmented, functionalized citizen can be formed into the well-rounded human being.

 

 Min Kyung

 de-

 from

 deletion

 

demilitarize
 
demise
 
 

 To eliminate the military character of a zone

 

 Death; the end of existence or activity; termination

 Jake

 off-

 from

 offspring

 offering

 

 offset

Something that is specially produced to be sold .

 

If one thing is offset by another, the effect of the first thing is reduced by the second, so that any advantage or disadvantage is cancelled out.

 Jung Won

 mid-

 

 

 

 

 Yoshinori

 on-

 on

 onshore

 ongoing

 Being actually in prosess (continuing); continuously moving forward (growing)

 Maria

 para-

 beside

 paralegal

parallel

parasite

 equidistant at all points and never converging or diverging

an animal or plant that lives in or on a host

 Kanae

 per-

 throughout

 pervasive

 percolate

 

pervasion

 information percolates throughout a group, it gradually spreads

 

existing everywhere throughout something

 

 Ayumi

 circu-

 

 

 

 

 Pape

 peri-

 

around

 

perihepatic

 

perimetric
 
perimysial

 Of, relating to, or surrounding the uterus.

 

Surrounding a muscle or muscles

 Helena

 trans-

 

 

 

transcribe, transcribing
 

 

 To make an exact copy of (something) in writing; to copy out from an original; to write (a copy).

 Carlos

 dia-

 through

 diagonal

 diagnosis,

diagnostic

 The identification of an illness in a patient through physical examination,

a symptom of value found through diagnosis.

 Gabriel

 pro

 forward

 proceed

 progress

prologue

 the process of gradually improving or getting nearer to achoeving or completing something

If one event is a prologue to another event, it leads to it.

 Yunmi

 re-

 back

 retract

 reciprocal

 

reclaim

Something that is mutual or done in return; given or felt by each toward the other.

 

The act of recalling, or state of being recalled, to a proper conduct.

 Min Kyung

 retro-

 

 back

 

 

retrolingual

 retromancy

 

retroflex

 

Divination by things seen over one’s shoulder.
 
Bent, curved, or turned backward.

 Jake

 sub-

 under

 subzero

 submit

 

 subtitle

 if you submit to something, you unwillingly allow something to be done to you, or you do what someone wants, for example because you are not powerful enough to resist.

 

 A printed translation of the words of a foreign film that are shown at the bottom of the picture

 

 Jung Won

 sub-

 under, below

   subordinate

          subscript

           subside

       A character that is printed on a level lower than the rest of the characters on line.

 

                                         To become less active or intense

Yoshinori

 under-

 below

 underachiever

 undercover

 

underrate

 Working in a secret; done in secret

 

 to think that a thing or person is less clever or important

Maria

 under-

 less than

 underweight

 underclass

underrate

 the social class lowest in the social hierarchy

to rate or evaluate too low

Kanae

 with-

 back away

 withdraw

 withhold

 

without

to refuse to give someone, back away or hold their feeling

 

not having something , a state with back away something 

Ayumi

 super-

 over

 supervisor

 superaddition

supercilious

 add to what has already been added

behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others

Kaori

 super-

 

 

 

 

Pape

 

 tele-

 far away

 

telecardiophone

 telegraph

 

telehealth

 An apparatus for transmitting messages to a distance, usually by signs of some kind

 

long-distance clinical health care

Helena

 tele

 

 

 

 

Carlos

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