The Great Gatsby Ch 3 & 4 Vocabulary Etymology

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

• to do/ perform

• digal

• forward, a lot

• -ed

• state of being; quality of

• -ity

• work hard

• toil

• action in the past tense

• pro-

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• opposite, not

• -ant

• a state of being, action

• cord

• to feel/ to think

• -sion

• a state of being, action

• dis-

• sound

• sens

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• action happening now

• -ing

• a state of being, action

• -ence

• bad

• Tanta

• an action of

• -lize

• reference to Greek myth about desire

• mal

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• scattered

• sporda

• quality of (turns word into adjective)

• -ic

• again, another, back

• punctil

• assign, allot

• tribut

• fine point, precise

• re-

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• near

• juxta

• to sleep

• somn

• location

• position

• to walk

• ambulate

• action of

• -ate