Prefixes Flashcards by Andres Borroto | 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: asocial, anarchy

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What does the latin prefix “ab” mean?

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from; away from

Examples: abnormal, absent

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What does the latin prefix “ad” mean?

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Toward

Examples: adapt, adhere

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What does the latin prefix “alter” mean?

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Another

Examples: alternate, alter ego

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What does the Greek prefix “amphi” mean?

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Around, both

Examples: amphibious, amphitheater

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What does the Greek prefix “ana” mean?

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Up

Examples: analysis, analogue

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What does the latin prefix “ante” mean?

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Before

Examples: antedate, antebellum

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What does the Greek prefix “anti” mean?

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Against

Examples: antichrist, antibody

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What does the latin prefix “circum” mean?

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Around

Examples: circumference, circumstance

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What does the latin prefix “co” mean?

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With, together

Examples: connect, collide

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What does the latin prefix “con” mean?

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With, together

Examples: connect, contain

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What does the latin prefix “contra” mean?

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Against

Examples: contradiction, contrast

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What does the latin prefix “de” mean?

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Down, down from

Examples: deflate, descend

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What does the Greek prefix “dia” mean?

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Through

Examples: diameter, diocese

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What does the latin prefix “dis” mean?

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Apart, away from

Examples: disperse, disinherit

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What does the Greek prefix “dys” mean?

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Bad

Examples: dysentery, dystrophy

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What does the latin prefix “E” mean?

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Out of

Examples: eject, elect

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What does the Greek prefix “ec” mean?

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Outside

Examples: eccentric, ectoplasm

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What does the Greek prefix “em” mean?

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In, within

Examples: emblem, emerge

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What does the Greek prefix “en” mean?

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In, within

Examples: energy, enter

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What does the Greek prefix “epi” mean?

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Upon

Examples: epidemic, epidermis

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What does the latin prefix “ex” mean?

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Out of, away from

Examples: exit, exotic

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What does the Greek prefix “hyper” mean?

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Over

Examples: hyperactive, hypermetric

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What does the latin prefix “in” mean?

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In, into, on, against, not

Examples: inaction, inflate

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What 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

Examples: obstacle, object

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What does the latin prefix “omni” mean?

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Every, all

Examples: omnipotent, omniscient

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What does the latin prefix “per” mean?

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Through

Examples: perfume, pervert

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What does the Greek prefix “peri” mean?

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Around

Examples: peripheral, perimeter

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What does the latin prefix “post” mean?

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After

Examples: postpone, postnatal

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What does the latin prefix “pre” mean?

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Before

Examples: precede, pretend

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What does the latin prefix “re” mean?

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Back, again

Examples: repel, record

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What does the latin prefix “retro” mean?

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Backwards

Examples: retrogressive, retrospect

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What does the latin prefix “sub” mean?

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Beneath

Examples: subway, submarine

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What does the latin prefix “super, sur” mean?

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Above

Examples: superior, superhero

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What does the Greek prefix “sym” mean

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With, together

Examples: sympathy, symbiosis

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What does the Greek prefix “syn” mean?

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With, together

Examples: synonym, synagogue

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What does the latin prefix “trans” mean?

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Across

Examples: transport, translate

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What does the Greek prefix “tele” mean?

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Distant

Examples: telephone, teleport