Prefixes Flashcards by Steven Marin | Brainscape

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What does the latin prefix “A” mean?

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Away from, Examples: Against, alone.

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What does the Greek prefix “A” mean?

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Not, no. Examples are: Asocial, anarchy.

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What does the latin prefix “ab” mean?

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from; away from. Examples are abnormal, absent.

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What does the latin prefix “Ad” mean?

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Toward. Examples: Advantage, Advance

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What does the latin prefix “Alter” mean?

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Another. Examples: alternative, alter ego.

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What does the Greek prefix “Amphi” mean?

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Around, both. Examples: Amphibian, amphitheater

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What does the Greek prefix “Ana” mean?

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Up. Examples: analogy. , anabasis.

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whats does the latin prefix”Ante” mean?

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Before. Examples: Antecedent, anterior.

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What does the Greek prefix “Anti” mean.

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Against. Examples: Antisocial, Antisemitism.

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What does the latin prefix “Circum” mean?

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Around. Examples: Circumference, Circumspect.

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What does the Latin prefix “Co” mean?

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With, Together. Examples: Combine, Company.

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What does the latin prefix “Con” mean?

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With, together. Examples: Conference, Connect.

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What does the Latin prefix “Contra” mean?

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Against. Example: Contrary, Contrast

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What does the Latin prefix “De” mean.

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Down, Down from. Examples: declined demoted

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What does the Greek prefix “Dia” mean?

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Through. Examples: Diameter, dialogue.

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What does the Latin prefix “Dis” mean?

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Apart, away from. Examples: distant , disperse

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What does the Greek prefix “Dys” mean?

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Bad. Examples: Dystrophy and Dyslexia

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What does the Latin prefix “E” mean?

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Out of. Examples: Eject, Evacuate.

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What does the Greek prefix “Ec” mean?

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Outside. Examples: Eccentric , Economy.

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What does the Greek prefix “Em” mean?

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In within. Examples: Emerge,embedded.

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What does the Greek prefix “En” mean?

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In, within. Examples: Enclosed, engage.

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What does the Greek prefix “Epi” mean?

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Upon. Examples: Epic, epidermis

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What does the Latin prefix “Ex” mean?

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Out of , away from. Examples: External, exoskeleton.

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What does the Greek prefix “Hyper” mean?

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Over. Examples: Hyperextended, hypertension.

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What’d does the Latin prefix “In” mean?

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In, into, against, against, not. Example: Inside, internal.

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What’d does the Latin prefix “Intro” mean?

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Inside. Examples: Introduction, Introvert

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What does the Latin prefix “Ob” mean?

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Against. Example: Obderate ,object

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What’d does the Latin prefix “Omni” mean?

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Every, all. Examples: omnirange, omnivore.

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What’d does the Latin prefix “Per” mean?

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Through. Examples: percistent, perpetrate.

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What does the Greek prefix “Peri” mean?

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Around. Examples: Perimeter. Peripheral

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What’d does the Latin prefix “Post”mean?

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After. Examples: Postage, Pospardum

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What does the Latin prefix “pre” mean?

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Before. Examples: Preschool, predate.

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What does the Latin prefix “Re” mean?

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Back, again. Examples: Reverse, Repeat.

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What does the Latin prefix “Retro” mean?

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Backwards. Examples: Retrospect, retrovision.

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What does the Latin prefix “Sub” mean?

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Beneath. Examples: Subway, Submairne.

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What does the Latin prefix “Super, Sur” mean?

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Above. Examples: Superior, Superintendent.

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What does the Greek prefix “Sym” mean?

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With, together. Examples: Symmetry, synchronize

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What does the Greek prefix “Syn” mean?

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With, together. Examples: Synonym, Synonomous.

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What does the Latin prefix “Trans” mean?

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Across. Examples: Translate, Transport.

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What does the Greek prefix “Tele” mean?

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Distance. Examples: Teleport. Telephone.