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
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