DETERMINING MEANING 5: PREFIXES (auto, trans, micro, tele)

A prefix goes _________of a word.

• at the end
• at the beginning
• in the middle

Hailey needed a car to get to work.  What did she need?

• self-confident
• autocrat
• automobile
• automatic

Trucking companies are hired to do this with products, so they can get from one place to another.

• Transparent
• Translucent
• Translated
• Transport

My mother ___________________ her flowers from the pot into the garden.

• transparent
• transformed
• translated
• transplanted

Every morning, she made her hot chocolate in three minutes using this type of device. 

• microcosm
• microbiology
• microwave
• microfilm

To transport across space and distance instantly is called what?

• televise

• teleport

• telethon

• telegraph

Many famous people have been known to write one of these.  

What is it called?

• autobiography
• autocrat
• autonomy
• automobile

The glass on an overhead projector has to be like this so that whatever is written can be clearly read.

• Transparent
• Translucent
• Transpiration
• Transatlantic

You can project your voice by speaking into one of these when addressing a crowd.

• microwave
• microphone
• microfilm
• microcosm

Choose the word that matches the definition:

a long tube-shaped device used to see things that are far away

• telescope

• telephone

• televise

• telegraph