A (L.)

• Away from• A in A, A in AwAy from, A in Latin

A (G.)

• Not, no

AB (L.)

• Away from• Absent = away from school

AD (L.)

• Toward• Addiction = Going toward something you like

ALTER (L.)

• Another• Alter = Alter ego, another personality

AMPHI

• Around, both• Amphitheater goes around the area• Amphibian can live in the water and on land

ANA (G.)

• Up• Anabolic, anabolic steroids make your muscle

mass go up• Ana, think of a made up person in the movie

Up! Named Ana

ANTE (L.)

• Before• Anterior = coming before in time, earlier

ANTI (G.)

• Against• Anti-onions – against onions• Anti-smoking – Against smoking• Anti-social – Against being social

CIRCUM (L.)

• Around• Circumference = the distance around a circle

CO (L.)

• With, together• Coexist = to live with/together• Cooperate = to work with/together

CON (L.)

• With, together• Conform = to act with the group

CONTRA (L.)

• Against• Contradict = to go against what was said

DE (L.)

• Down, down from• Descend = to go down• Deflate = when air goes down• Depression = when you are feeling down

DIA (G.)

• Through• Diagonal = a line that goes through

DIS (L.)

• Apart, away from• Dismembered = when pieces are apart• Distant = when someone or something is apart

or away from someone or something else

DYS (G.)

• Bad• Dystrophy = like muscular dystrophy, your

muscles die, that’s bad!

E (L.)

• Out of• Exit = to get out of someplace

EC (G.)

• Outside• Ecosystem = an outside environment

EM (G.)

• In, within• Emphasis = you put stress in your voice

EN (G.)

• In, within• Energy = something that happens inside,

within

EPI (G.)

• Upon• Epicenter = the point that is upon the center• Epidermis = the skin that is upon the top

EX (L.)

• Out of, away from• Extra-terrestrial = out of this world

HYPER (G.)

• Over• Hyper = when you are overly excited

IN (L.)

• In, into, on, against, not• Inside = in, not out• Incomplete = not complete

INTRO (L.)

• Inside• Introspective = to look inside oneself

OB (L.)

• Against• Object = to be against an idea

OMNI (L.)

• Every, all• Omnipotent = all powerful

PER (L.)

• Through• Perceptive = in a way, seeing “through”

someone• Perennial = through the years, like flowers

PERI (G.)

• Around• Perimeter = the distance around a 2d object

POST (L.)

• After• P.S. stands for Post Script, as in, after the letter

PRE (L.)

• Before• PREFIX!!! Yay we have come full circle! We

have 8 more though, so bear with me. A PREFIX is the part that comes at the beginning, BEFORE the root of the word.

• Prejudice = is a judgment made before knowing the person

• Precede = an event that comes before another

RE (L.)

• Back, again• Return = to come back• Rerun = an episode that is shown again

RETRO (L.)

• Backwards• Retrospect = looking backwards

SUB (L.)

• Beneath• Submarine = a boat that goes beneath the

water

SUPER, SUR (L.)

• Above• Ok this one is silly, but SUPERMAN!! He has

abilities above our own, Plus, he flies above us!

• Surface = is the part above the rest

SYM (G.)

• With, together• Sympathy = to feel with someone

SYN (G.)

• With, together• Synonym = a word that goes together with

another word

TRANS (L.)

• Across• Transmit = to send a message across

something• Trans-Siberian Railway cuts across Russia.

TELE

• Distant• Telephone is used to communicate across a

distance