Roots and Affixes Task Cards

The root words "aud" and "audi", as in the word audio, mean what?

• to write or draw

• to see

• to hear

• to throw

When "Anti" is added to the beginning of a word, what does it mean?

• many

• to throw

• to cause to be 

• against

The prefix "sub" can be added to the front of a word to mean what?

• in favor of

• under

• poly

• to cause to be

What is a prefix? 

• Word part in the middle

• word part at the end

• root word

• word part at the beginning

A suffix goes _______of a word.

• at the beginning

• in the middle

• at the end 

A word part added to the beginning of a root or base word

• suffix

• root

• prefix

• base

A _______ can stand alone, but a ______ cannot.

• root; base

• prefix; base

• base; root

• suffix; root

The Latin root rupt means

• carry or bring

• bother

• break or burst

• send

The root words "vis" and "vid", as in the word "video" mean what? 

• to hear

• be able

• to see

• to throw

The suffix -able means

• hard to do

• able to be or having

• to hear

• to write