Affixes

What does the word hopeful mean?

• without hope
• full of hope
• a person with hope

What word means full of care?

• careless

• careness

• careful

• careable

The players were discouraged because the situation looked (hope)_______.

• -ing

• -ful

• -less

• -ment

A group of letters that go before the root and changes the meaning of the root word is called a

• affix

• prefix

• suffix

• base word

What does the prefix "dis, non, and un" mean?

• again

• not

• before

What does the word "misplace" mean?

• full of place
• place again
• to put in the wrong place
• in a placed way

Stealing money from the people is illegal. What does the underlined word means?

• legally allowed

• out of legality

• not legal

• remove from

During the spelling test, Hannah got, three misspelled words. What does the underlined word means?

• wrong spelling

• correct spelling

• spell again

• remove from

Let's look at this information again. We should _____view it before the test. What appropriate prefix is to be used?

• ab

• dis

• re

• un

A word part added to the beginning of a root or base word

• suffix

• root

• prefix

• base