For 2 of the words, give a definition, using the meaning of the prefix and highlight it.

before 

1- anteaural

2- antecedent

3- antediluvian

2- formal an event, organization, or thing that is similar to the one you have mentioned but existed earlier.

3- very old-fashioned 

Please copy the words from your handout! 

1. precancerous 

2. precaution

3. precede

1. of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated.

2. something you do in order to prevent something dangerous or unpleasant from happening. 

1. proactive

2. proceed

3. probably

1. making things happen or change rather than reacting to events.

3. used to say that something is likely to happen, likely to be true.

1. receipt

2. reciprocal

3. reclaim

1. a piece of paper that you are given which shows that you have paid for something.

3. to get back an amount of money that you have paid 

Please copy the words from your handout!

aftermath 

afterwards

aftershock

aftertaste

aftercare

aftershave

afterthought

afterworld

epigraph

epidermis  

Epidemic

epicutaneous 

epicram  

epicramium 

widespread, over or among many people at the same time, such as deaisease. (sp)

 On the surface of the skin.  

Watch the spelling! 

Good sentences

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postdate

posterior 

post partum

post abortion

post deluvial

a posteriori  

After birth  

happening subsequent to, or after, an abortion.

Exercising soon after childbirth is primarily good for mental health — possibly guarding against postpartum depression — not for shedding baby weight.

accede

 assign

acquiesce

accommodate

affectionate

affirmative

To comply with, consent to, approve.  

To give someone a job or to assign with a task to complete.

Hedge funds are unlikely to accede, analysts say.BusinessWeekJan 12, 2012

One of his first assignments was covering family reunions between North and South Koreans in Seoul.

The principal of the school acceded to the students' complaints.  

He was assigned to conduct the meeting.

I couldent find more example words for ac and af as all these are interconnected to "ad."  

The Vocabulary dictionary link had many!!!!

ad-extra

ad-gloriam

Ad-hoc

ad-clerum

ad-extremum  

ad-horror

ad-litem

advocate

advise

adhere

adhesive

toward this (purpose), temporary. 

A statement made by church leader and intended only for clergy as opposed to a statement ad populum, "to the people."

Committee to represent international students in Saint Michael and solve this issue with the board of Directors.

aggressive 

1. aggression

 2. agglomerate

 3. agglutinate

1. Violent action (toward others) that is hostile and usually unprovoked.
2. Deliberately unfriendly behavior. 

1. to form or be formed into a mass or cluster; collect;

2. gathered together into a cluster or mass.

to unite or cause to adhere (something or someone to), as with glue; clustered together but not coherent 

Several government ministers warned in recent days that Argentina’s decision was an act of aggression against Spain and would not go unpunished.

New York TimesApr 20, 2012

1. annotate 

 2. announce 

 3. annunciation

to supply with critical or explanatory notes; comment upon in notes:

to make known publicly to the people, the mind or senses.

Many people manually annotate their pictures after they've uploaded them to a computer. 

My friend Judy always annotates definitions of difficult words in margins.

1. byplay

2. byway

3. bygone

4. byproduct 

5. bypass

an action or speech carried on to the side while the main action proceeds, especially on the stage.

a side road little traveled (as in the countryside): byroad, bypath

well in the past; former, 2. earlier than the present time; no longer current; bypast

Among its most eager auditors are outsiders, reporting every byplay to profoundly interested critics across the seas.

Various

In bygone times taking snuff was extremely popular, its palmy days in England being during the eighteenth century.

Andrews, William 

While his cousin was performing her drama, he was byplay taking pictures doing a byplay next door.

1. encircle

2. engrave  

 3. enzootic

 4. embarkation, embarcation

1. To form a circle around someone or something.
2. To move or to go around completely; to make a circuit of.   

carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

of a disease that is constantly present in an animal community but only occurs in a small number of cases

1. The loading of troops with their supplies and equipment into ships or aircraft. 

Bolton, Sarah K.

e.g Her pictures were often engraved in her own days, but they are now thought little of.

Koehler, S. R.

Here we were occupied for a few days in putting things in the best order we could, previous to our embarkation.

Surtees, William

1. immigrate 

2. import

 3. immerse 

1. To enter a new country for the purpose of settling there.
2. To bring people into country and to settle them as permanent residents there. 

That which is imported or brought in; a commodity imported from abroad; as opposed to export.

Cause to be thrown into; to plunge into or place under a liquid; dip; sink.

He was born in New York to parents who had immigrated from Eastern Europe.

Washington PostFeb 12, 2012

My grandfather immigrated from Uganda to Rwanda. 

1.intractable (in-tract-able)

 intranet

2.intransigent (adj.)

(in-trans-igent)

3.intransitive (= in-trans-itive) 

2.  unwilling to change your ideas or behaviour, in a way that seems unreasonable.

** happening within one school, or intended for the students of one school

2. Nations are often accused of intransigence when they refuse to comply with international standards or will. 

1- Problems are intractable when they can't be solved. 

These words do not have "intra-" as a prefix. They consist of the prefix "in-" plus the root "trans".

Other examples of "intra-" are

• intranet
• intravenous 

1.introvert

2. introduce

3. introductory

1. An introvert is person who is wrapped up in herself.

3. said or written at the beginning of a book, speech etc in order to explain what it is about.

1.enterprises

2. enterogram

3.enteritis

1-Enterprise describes a readiness to act boldly to get something started.

3. a painful infection in your intestines.

A museum should aim to entertain as well as educate. 

- One has to entertain him/ herself.

1.interpersonal

2.intercom

3.intercity 

1. Interpersonal refers to something involving, or occurring among several people. 

 2.a communication system linking different rooms within a building or ship etc.

3- I love to travel in by the intercity trains.

1.epicenter 

2.epicure

3.epistle

1. the place on the surface of the Earth that is right above the point where an earthquake begins inside the Earth.

3. a long or important letter.

not completed by due date

I am sorry Christina, I wasn't able to access the WIKI page.

ok, but you should have let me know!

out,away

out 

emigrate

exit

1_ exosmosis.

2_ecstasy.

3- eclectic.

 1_ exosmosis:

 Diffusion or osmosis from within outward; movement outward through a diaphragm or through vessel walls.

2- ecstasy:

being carried away by overwhelming emotion). 

experienced ecstasy but it was often bitter later on.

A small gift makes children happy even chocolate can make them ecstasytic.

1- external 

2- extrafamilial.

connected with the outside or an outer part.

2- extrafamilial:

Outside or beyond a family or its control.

I did not hear about the external occasion. 

I did not hear about the external problems.

1-de facto 

2- deambulate.

3- debit.

1-de facto:

 From the fact; in reality, actually. 

2-deambulate:

To walk away from one's home or in a different country.

Superstar players, on the other hand, are de facto partners of owners.

1-offsaddle

2-offshore.

3-offing

1-offsaddle:

remove the saddle from.

2-  (of winds) coming from the land 

3. in the near future

When they reached the corral she complimented him in turn by allowing him to offsaddle her horse 

As Christmas draws closer, more deep discounts are in the offing.

A bright light was visible far out in the offing .This sentence is from the Vocabulary dictionary for an uncommon meaning of offing.

There is a PBT TOEFL in the offing.

1-midst.

2- Mideast .

3- midfield.

describes something that's among, in the middle of .

2-midfield:

the middle part of a playing field

Players on both teams gathered at midfield to exchange pushes and shoves.

The new players have a meeting in the midfield tomorrow

1.onomatopoeia

2.ontology

3.onagraceae

onwards

onshore

onstage

onset

1. onomatopoeia:

using words that imitate the sound they denote

2.ontology:

the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence

ontology:

Gene ontology categories were assigned to each contig inferred to contain at least one conserved protein domain.

onomatopoeia:

The word of clatter is a onomatopoeia.

Use the same word for the sample sentences! 

The Vocabulary Dictionary had some very good, common words for the prefix -on--see the words on the left.

1.paradox

2.paramount

3.parabolic

1.paradox:

(logic) a statement that contradicts itself

2.parabolic:

resembling or expressed by parables

parabolic:

A parabolic solar-thermal trough like ones that would be used at a solar power plant planned for the Mojave Desert.

paradox:

The paradox of water is that it can help human beings and also harm human beings.  

1.personification

2.perspective

3.perambulate

1.perspective:

the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

2.perambulate:

walk with no particular goal

perspective:

I can remember very distinctly that at three years of age all perspective drawings appeared to me as gross caricatures of objects.

perspective:

She has got a clear perspective of her future life.

1.circumspect

2.circumstances

3.circuit

1.circumspect:

heedful of potential consequences

2.circuit:

a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area

circuit:

There were checkpoints on the roads leading to the Bahrain International Circuit.

circuit:

She took a quick circuit of a park.

1.perilous

2.perianth

3.pericardial

1.perianth:

collective term for the outer parts of a flower consisting of the calyx and corolla and enclosing the stamens and pistils

2.pericardial:

located around the heart or relating to or affecting the pericardium

pericardial:

The Food and Drug Administration said Edwards did not provide required information about certain types of annuloplasty ring devices and a pericardial heart valve device.

perianth:

The flowers of willows haven't don't have perianth.

1.transplant

2.transparent

3.biotransformation 

An operation involving the moving a body organ from one person (the donor) to another person (the recipient).  

1. Allowing light to pass through: "The new window in the sunroom was transparent and let all the sunshine in."

Within two days, the transplanted kidney had regained function.

1. diagnosis

2.diachronic

 3.diagram 

 The identification of an illness or disorder in a patient through physical examination, medical tests, or other procedures.

used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time. 

Many children are given a diagnosis of A.D.H.D., researchers say, when in fact they have another problem: a sleep disorder, like sleep apnea.

1.reciprocate

2.proclaim

 3.proconsul

1. Etymologically, "to move backward" and "forward".

2.  To make an official announcement of (something), by word of mouth in some public place; also, to cause this to be done by officers or agents. 

"Apple is committed to this framework, provided that other parties reciprocate," said Bruce Watrous, the firm's chief intellectual property counsel.

recant

recant

recede

receive

reciprocality

reciprocalness

1-Recant:

To formally reject or to disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure. 

Recede:  To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark; for example, the people waited for the flood waters to recede before they could return to their homes.

retroact

retroaction

retroactive

retroactively

retroflection 

retroact :To give back or to give something back to someone; such as, land or a territory.

retroflection: The act of bending backward. 

subarctic

subatomic

subaudition

subboreal

subcelestial

subarctic: . Of or relating to latitudes just south of the Arctic Circle as in landscape or weather conditions.

subatomic: Referring or relating to particles that are smaller than an atom.

1. Withstand

2. Withhold

3. Wither

4. Within 

5. Without

Resist or confront with resistance.

Hold back; refuse to hand over or share.

To prove they can withstand pain, many middle school and high school kids are taking on the "ice and salt challenge.

By doing so, we are withholding from our neediest students any reason to read at all.

The office building of Saint's Micheal College can withstand an earthquake of 6.5 magnitudes.

Jack was accused of withholding information from the police.  

1. Superlative

2. Superstition

3. Superstar

4. Supersonic

5. Superfluous 

Highest in quality

An irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear

He was a young man of family, unburdened by superlative wealth, but possessing in his own person the primary elements of success. 

There has generally been sufficient superstition in all races to make amulets the popular means of averting calamity and preserving from sickness.

The word "biggest" is the superlative degree of "big".

The old superstition that black cats are unlucky is silly. 

1. Telescope

2. Telemarketing

3. Telebarometer

4. Telegraph

5. Teleplay 

A magnifier of images of distant objects 

The use of the telephone as an interactive medium for promotion and sales.

Neutron sources, synchrotrons, telescopes and particle accelerators all require highly trained staff and lots of consumables. 

Ms. Swanson says her lawsuit seeks to require Discover to stop its telemarketing practices and pay penalties and restitution to consumers.

Three years before, I looked saw (or watched, or looked at) a lunar eclipse through a type of telescope.  

The Telemarketing system is was introduced in Nepal in the 20th Century.