Prefixes Flashcards

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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 Latin prefix “ab” mean?

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From; away from.

Examples are abnormal, absent

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What does the Greek prefix “A” mean?

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Not, no.

Example: Asocial, anarchy

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What does the Latin prefix “ad” mean?

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Toward

Example: advance, adulterate

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What does the Latin prefix “alter” mean?

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Another

Ex: alternate, alter

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What does the Greek prefix “amphi” mean?

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Around, both

Ex: amphibian, Amphisbaenia

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What does the Greek prefix “Ana” mean?

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Up

Ex: analogue analeptic

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What does the Latin prefix “ante” mean?

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Before

Ex: antedate antebellum

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What does the Greek prefix “anti” mean?

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Anti

Ex: antiseptic, antisemetism

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What does the Latin prefix “circum” mean?

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Around

Ex:circumstance, corcumcise

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What does the Latin prefix “co” mean?

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With together

Ex: coefficient , co- pilot

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What does the Latin prefix”con” mean?

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With together

Ex: concord, conclave

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What does the Latin prefix “contra” mean?

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Against

Ex: contraceptive, contract

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What does the Latin prefix “de” mean?

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Down

Ex: decrease, defeat

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What does the Greek prefix “dia” mean?

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Through

Ex: diameter diagonal

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What does the Latin prefix “dis” mean?

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Apart away from

Ex: disappointment, disagree

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What does the Greek prefix “dys” means?

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Bad

Ex: dysfunction , dyslexia

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What does the Latin prefix “e” mean?

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Out of

Ex: electronic, educate

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What does the Latin prefix “ ec”mean?

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Outside

Ex: eclipse, eccentric

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What does the Greek prefix”em” mean?

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In, within

Ex: emblem, embrace

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What does the Greek prefix “en” mean?

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In, within

Ex:encourage, engrave

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What does the Greek prefix “epi” mean?

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Upon

Ex: epidemic, epidermis

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What does the Latin prefix “ex” mean?

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Out of, away from

Example: extract, execute

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What does the Greek prefix “hyper” mean?

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Over

Ex: hyperactive, hyperventilate

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What does the Latin prefix “in” mean

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In, into, on, against, not

Ex: inverted, indoors

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What does the Latin prefix “intro” mean?

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Inside

Ex: introduction, introspection

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What does the Latin prefix “ob” mean?

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Against

Ex: obstruct, obsession

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What does the Latin prefix “omni” mean?

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Every, all

Ex: omniscient, omnipotent

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What does the Latin prefix “per” mean?

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Through

Ex: perforated, perception

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What does the Greek prefix “peri” mean?

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Around

Ex: perimeter, pericarp

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What does the Latin prefix “post” mean?

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After

Ex: poster, post

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What does the Latin prefix “pre” mean?

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Before

Ex: preview, premature

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What does the Latin prefix “re” mean?

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Back, again

Ex: repeat, reunion

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What does the Latin prefix “retro” mean?

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Backwards

Ex: retrospect, retroact

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What does the Latin prefix”sub” mean?

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Beneath

Ex: subject, subsection

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

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Above

Ex: surface survey, supernatural supersonic

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What does the Greek prefix “sym” mean?

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With together

Ex: symmetry, symptoms

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What does the Greek prefix “Syn” mean?

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With, together

Ex: synthesis, sync

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What does the Latin prefix “trans” mean?

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Across

Ex: transfer, transmit

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What does the Greek prefix “tele” mean?

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Distant

Ex: television, telephone