Using the Prefixes

What are you doing if you circumvent a problem?

• Solving it

• creating it

• avoiding it

• studying it

Birds all abvolate at some point.

• build a nest

• fly away

• shove their babies out of the nest

• die

Many plants are ambiparous.

• brightly colored

• die in the fall

• have both leaves and flowers

• need bees to be pollinated

When did the antebellum period begin?

• During the Holocaust

• Before the Civil War

• After the Civil Rights Movement

• When Germany surrendered in WWI

People often tell me that I am antisocial.

• I don't like to hang around other people.

• I like to attend parties.

• I am usually surrounded by people.

• I talk a lot.

The teacher was a real autocrat.

• She was helpful to all the students.

• The principal thought she was the problem child of the group

• Co-workers wanted her on their teams because she was so knowledgeable.

• She was very observant.

The country celebrated it's bicentennial birthday.

• A century

• 500 years

• 1000 years

• 200 years

We were frustrated when all the teacher did was circumlocute.

• refuse to teach

• give us too much homework on a Friday

• Talk around the answer without really answering the question

• stare at us angrily

The blood coagulated.

• drained

• slowed to a drip

• started to stick together and harden

• poured out of his nose.

The flooding was expected to be worse at the confluence.

• where the dam was leaking

• where the two rivers meet and combine

• the towns along the river

• start of summer