Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

What is a suffix?

• One or more letters or syllables added to the end of a word or a word part to create a new word.
• The part that carries the word's core meaning.
• One or more letters or syllables added to the beginning of a word or a word part to create a new word.
• Many English words are made up of various word parts.

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What does deca mean?

• decimal
• thousand
• ten
• century

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What is the meaning of the following?
anti-

• before
• against
• opposite
• together

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What is the meaning of the word prefix?

• One or more letters or syllables added to the beginning of a word or a word part to create a new word
• One or more letters or syllables added to the end of a word or a word part to create a new word.
• The part of the word that carries the word's core meaning.
• Words that are spelled correctly in a passage.

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What do you do if you reread a book? 

• don't read it
• read it again
• read it for the first time
• read it for the second time and no more times after that.

"Full of help"

• helpable
• helply
• helpy
• helpful

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An example of using the prefix trans-

• transs
• tranport
• trans
• translate

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Which of the following is an example of a suffix?

• -ject-
• -ance
• -ped-
• in-

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Which of the following is an example of a root?

• co-
• -able
• -dict-
• -ize

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Which of the following uses a prefix?

• antiwar
• readable
• admittance
• pedal

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