The Great Gatsby Ch 3 & 4 Vocabulary Etymology

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

• work hard

• -ed

• forward, a lot

• pro-

• to do/ perform

• toil

• state of being; quality of

• digal

• action in the past tense

• -ity

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

• sound

• dis-

• a state of being, action

• -sion

• a state of being, action

• sens

• to feel/ to think

• cord

• opposite, not

• -ant

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

• an action of

• -ence

• reference to Greek myth about desire

• mal

• bad

• -lize

• a state of being, action

• Tanta

• action happening now

• -ing

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• fine point, precise

• punctil

• quality of (turns word into adjective)

• re-

• scattered

• -ic

• again, another, back

• tribut

• assign, allot

• sporda

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

• near

• somn

• to sleep

• -ate

• action of

• ambulate

• to walk

• juxta

• location

• position