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Active Skills for Reading Book 4: Review of Word Roots: Match the word root with its meaning. Write the number in the blank.
Word Root
Meaning of Root
1. graphy put, place, or stand 2. graph the study of something 3. ject to die or death 4. pos, pon to write or record something 5. mort, mor, mur to throw 6. fer to hold on or persist 7. ten, tain to carry
Many prefixes are attached to word roots to make English words. Study this list.
Prefix
Meaning
Example Words
ad, at to, toward adhere, admit, attain circum, circ around, round circumference, circumvent, circular com, con, col, cor together, with combine, collate, connect, correlate con opposite, away from contrast, contrary de from, down descent, depress, defer dis, di, dif apart, from, not different, diverge, dislocated, disengage e, ec, ex, ef out, from eject, eccentric, exchange extra beyond, outside extraordinary il, im, in, ir, in, into, or not illegal, important, inactive, irreplaceable inter between interpersonal relations intra within intrastate, intravenous non not nonsense, nonsmoking ob, oc, op, of in front of or against opposite, obscure, obtain per through, by perennial, permission post after postpone, post-mortem pre before prenuptial, prepare pro in favor of, forward proponent, provider, propel re back, again reread, revise, rewrite trans across, beyond transport, transmit, transpose un not, negative unusual, uninteresting
Review Prefixes on page 48 and Activity B, page 49.
Content development by Kathleen Hanson, San Jose City College.
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