Lesson 26 - Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

Very bad or poor, showing or causing unhappiness or sad feelings.

• dismal
• malfunction
• malice
• malignant

bad, abnormal

• inter
• intra
• mal

between, among

• mal
• inter
• intra

inside, within

• intra
• inter
• mal

to fail to function or work properly

• malice
• malnourish
• malignant
• malfunction

a desire to cause harm to others

• malice
• malnourish
• interim
• intrastrate

very serious and dangerous; tending or likely to grow and spread in a rapid and uncontrolled way that can cause death; cancerous

• malnourish
• malignant
• malice
• malfunction

to become involved in the activites and concerns of other people when your involvement is not wanted; to stop or slow something or to make something more difficult

• interstate
• inrapersonal
• interfere
• interim

used or accepted for a limited time; not permanent

• interim
• interfere
• interstate
• intrastate

relating to or connecting different states; existing or occurring between states, especially in the U.S. 

• intrastate
• intrapersonal
• interstate
• interim