Prefix introduction
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Prefix introduction
This is a pretest. You will not receive a grade for it, other than for
completion.
Instructions:
• In your interactive notebook, on the table of contents page, next to the number 5, write vocabulary #1.
• Turn to page 5 in your interactive notebook.• On page 5, number 1-10 down the side.• As you view the following slides, write down
the words/prefixes and then your best answer/guess to their meaning.
ante
anti
audio
bene
chron
circum
cide
cred
commun
bio
ante
Let’s see how well you did.
antebefore
antebefore
antebefore
antiagainst
audito hear
benegood
chrontime
circumaround
cideto kill
credto believe
communto share
bioliving
Let’s look at words that use these
prefixes and suffixes.
antebellum: before the warantecedent:preceding, prior
antidote: a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc
auditory: pertaining to hearing.audiophile: a person especially interested in high fidelity sound reproduction.
benefit: something that is advantageous or good benevolent: desiring to help others; charitable
chronological: arranged in order of timechronograph: a timepiece capable of measuring extremely brief intervals of time accurately, as a stopwatch able to record fractions of a second as well as elapsed time
circumnavigate:to sail or fly aroundcircumference:the outer boundary, especially of a circular area
homocide: the killing of one human being by anothersuicide: the intentional taking of one’s own life
auditory: pertaining to hearing.audiophile: a person especially interested in high fidelity sound reproduction.
auditory: pertaining to hearing.audiophile: a person especially interested in high fidelity sound reproduction.
credible: capable of being believedIncredible: so extraordinary as to seem impossible
community: a group sharing common interestscommune: to converse or talk together
biology: the science of life or living matterbiosphere: the ecosystym comprising the entire earth and the living organisms that inhabit it
Next week you will be taking a short quiz
on these parts of words.
It will be a multiple choice quiz made up
of ten questions.
You will take it in class, on the computers.
You will have 5 minutes for 10
questions. Study!