Prefixes

Question 1

What does the Latin prefix “A” mean?

Answer 1

Away from. Ex. Against, alone.

Question 2

What does the prefix “ab” mean?

Answer 2

From; away from. Ex. Abnormal, Absent.

Question 3

What does the Greek prefix “A” mean?

Answer 3

Not, no. Ex. Asocial, Anarchy.

Question 4

What does the prefix “AD” mean?

Answer 4

Toward. Ex. Advance, advantage.

Question 5

What does the prefix “Alter” mean?

Answer 5

Another. Ex. Alternate, alter-ego.

Question 6

What does the prefix “Ana” mean?

Answer 6

Up. Ex. Anabasis, anode.

Question 7

What does the prefix “Ante” mean?

Answer 7

Before. Ex. Antecedent, antebellum.

Question 8

What does the prefix “Anti” mean?

Answer 8

Against. Ex. Antisocial, anticlimactic.

Question 9

What does the prefix “Circum” mean?

Answer 9

Around. Ex. Circumference, circumnavigate.

Question 10

What does the prefix “Co” mean?

Answer 10

With, together. Ex. Cooperate, coordinate.

Question 11

What does the prefix “Con” mean?

Answer 11

With, together. Ex. Connect, contact.

Question 12

What does the prefix “De” mean

Answer 12

Down, down from. Ex. Destroy, deconstruct.

Question 13

What does the prefix “Contra” mean?

Answer 13

Against. Ex. Contraband, contract.

Question 14

What does the prefix “Dia” mean?

Answer 14

Through. Ex. Diameter, diaphragm.

Question 15

What does the prefix “Dis” mean?

Answer 15

Apart, away from. Ex. Disjunction, dissimilar.

Question 16

What does the prefix “Dys” mean?

Answer 16

Bad. Ex. Dyslexic, dysmentia.

Question 17

What does the prefix “E” mean?

Answer 17

Out of. Ex. Elusive, evict.

Question 18

What does the prefix “Ec” mean?

Answer 18

Outside. Ex. Eccentric, ecbloic

Question 19

What does the prefix “Em” mean?

Answer 19

In, within. Ex. Embrace, emphasis.

Question 20

What does the prefix “En” mean?

Answer 20

In, within. Ex. Enter, enable.

Question 21

What does the prefix “Epi” mean?

Answer 21

Upon. Ex. Epidemic, epic.

Question 22

What does the prefix “Ex” mean?

Answer 22

Out of, away from. Ex. Exile, extract.

Question 23

What does the prefix “Hyper” mean?

Answer 23

Over. Ex. Hyperthermia, hyperactive.

Question 24

What doe the prefix “In” mean?

Answer 24

In, into, on, against, not. Ex. Infamous, interactive.

Question 25

What does the prefix “Intro” mean?

Answer 25

Introduction. Ex. Introduce, inroduction.

Question 26

What does the prefix “Ob” mean?

Answer 26

Against. Ex. Objection, obstruct.

Question 27

What does the prefix “Omni” mean?

Answer 27

Every, all. Ex. Omniarch, omnibenevolence.

Question 28

What does the prefix “Per” mean?

Answer 28

Through. Ex. Permission, person.

Question 29

What does the prefix “Peri” mean?

Answer 29

Around. Ex. Perimeter, perianth.

Question 30

What does the prefix “Post” mean?

Answer 30

After. Ex. Post-show, post-war.

Question 31

What dos the prefix “Pre” mean?

Answer 31

Before. Ex. Pre-show, previous.

Question 32

What does the prefix “Re” mean?

Answer 32

Back, again. Ex. Remember, return.

Question 33

What does the prefix “Retro” mean?

Answer 33

Backwards. Ex. Retroversion, retrology.

Question 34

What does the prefix “Sub” mean?

Answer 34

Beneath. Ex. Subway, subterranean.

Question 35

What do the prefixes “Super” and “Sur” mean?

Answer 35

Above. Ex. Superlative, surely.

Question 36

What does the prefix “Amphi” mean?

Answer 36

Around, both. Ex. Amphibian, amphiartroses.