Prefixes

Question 1

What does the Greek prefix “A” mean?

Answer 1

Not, no. Examples: Asocial, Anarchy

Question 2

What does the Latin prefix “A” mean?

Answer 2

Away from. Examples: Against, alone

Question 3

What does the Latin prefix “ab” mean?

Answer 3

From; away from. Examples: abnormal, absent

Question 4

What does the Latin prefix “ad” mean?

Answer 4

Toward. Examples: Adapt, Addition

Question 5

What does the Latin prefix “alter” mean?

Answer 5

another; Examples: Alternate, Alteration

Question 6

What does the Greek prefix “ana” mean?

Answer 6

up, Examples: analysis and anode

Question 7

What does the Latin prefix “anti” mean?

Answer 7

Against, Examples: antiphony, antipodal

Question 8

What does the Latin prefix “Circum” mean?

Answer 8

Around, Examples: circumference, cirumcise

Question 9

What does the Latin prefix “ante” mean?

Answer 9

Before, Examples: antidote, anterior

Question 10

What does the Latin prefix “co” mean?

Answer 10

with together, Examples: co-op, co-pay

Question 11

What does the Latin prefix “anti” mean?

Answer 11

Against,Example: Contrast, Contradict

Question 12

What does the Lain prefix “de” mean

Answer 12

Down, Down from, Example: decline =, and decend

Question 13

What does the greek prefix “dia” mean?

Answer 13

Through, Example: Dialyze, Dialysis

Question 14

What does the Latin prefix “dis” mean?

Answer 14

apart, away from, Examples: disconnect, discontinued

Question 15

What does the greek prefix “dys” mean?

Answer 15

Bad, Examples: Dyslexic, Dysplasia

Question 16

What does the Latin prefix “E” mean?

Answer 16

Out of, Examples: exotic, extirior

Question 17

What does the Greek prefix “ec” mean?

Answer 17

outside,Examples: ecosystem, ecology

Question 18

What does the greek prefix “em” mean?

Answer 18

in within, Examples: empire, embark

Question 19

What does the greek prefix “en” mean?

Answer 19

in within Examples: entire, encore

Question 20

What does the Greek prefix “epi” mean?

Answer 20

Upon, Examples: Epidermis, epidemic

Question 21

What does the Latin prefix “ex” mean?

Answer 21

Out of, Away from. Examples: Exotic, Exterior

Question 22

What does the Greek prefix “hyper” mean?

Answer 22

Over. Examples: Hyperventilating, Hyperactive

Question 23

What does the Latin prefix “in” mean?

Answer 23

in, into, on, against, not. Examples: Incorporate, Incarcerate

Question 24

What does the Latin prefix “intro” mean?

Answer 24

inside. Examples: Introduce, Introduction

Question 25

What does the latin prefix “ob” mean?

Answer 25

against. Examples: obedient, obligate

Question 26

What does the latin prefix “omni” mean?

Answer 26

Every, All. Examples: Omnipresent, Omnicompetent

Question 27

What does the Latin prefix “per” mean?

Answer 27

Through. Example: Perborate, Percale

Question 28

What does the Greek prefix “peri” mean?

Answer 28

Around.Examples: Periscope,Perinium

Question 29

What does the Latin prefix “post” mean?

Answer 29

After. Examples:Post-dramatic, Post-game

Question 30

What does the Latin prefix “pre” mean?

Answer 30

Before. Examples: Premier, Preview

Question 31

What does the Latin prefix “re” mean?

Answer 31

Back, Again. Examples: reroute, report

Question 32

What does the the latin prefix “retro” mean?

Answer 32

back, again. Examples: retroaction, retroactive

Question 33

What does the latin prefix “sub” mean?

Answer 33

beneath. Examples: subterranean, subway

Question 34

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

Answer 34

above. Examples: superable, superbound

Question 35

What does the greek prefix “sym” mean?

Answer 35

with, together. Examples: Symbol, Symbolic

Question 36

What does the greek prefix “syn” mean?

Answer 36

with, together. Examples: Synonym, Synopsis

Question 37

What does the Latin prefix “trans” mean?

Answer 37

across. Examples: Transaction, Transalpine

Question 38

What does the greek prefix “tele” mean?

Answer 38

distant. Examples: telegraph, Television