The Great Gatsby Ch 3 & 4 Vocabulary Etymology

Match the prefix, root word, or suffix to its meaning:

• forward, a lot

• -ity

• action in the past tense

• digal

• to do/ perform

• -ed

• work hard

• toil

• state of being; quality of

• pro-

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• opposite, not

• -sion

• a state of being, action

• sens

• a state of being, action

• dis-

• to feel/ to think

• -ant

• sound

• cord

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• reference to Greek myth about desire

• -lize

• action happening now

• -ing

• bad

• mal

• an action of

• Tanta

• a state of being, action

• -ence

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• quality of (turns word into adjective)

• -ic

• again, another, back

• re-

• assign, allot

• sporda

• fine point, precise

• punctil

• scattered

• tribut

Match the following prefix, root word, or suffix to its meaning.

• to sleep

• position

• action of

• juxta

• to walk

• ambulate

• location

• somn

• near

• -ate