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Prefix,Root,Suffix
Studying words with prefixes, roots, and suffixes
| Term | Definition | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Agricolation | Tillage of the ground; husbandry; the practice of agriculture. | The farmer prepared to practice his, agricolation, on the ground. |
| Audit | To hear about a company's financial standing; an examined and verified account. | Everyone knew what was going to happen to the company when the bank people arrived because everyone had heard the, audit, of the company. |
| Beneficial | Having a good outcome, favorable. | The young man hoped there was going to be a, beneficial, when he was doing with his job interview. |
| Corpus | General collection or body of writings, laws, etc. | The Declaration of Independence was a ,corpus, for our country. |
| Indictment | Formal words spoken or written by a jury that charges a person with a crime. | The, indictment, words of the jury sentenced the criminal to ten years in jail. |
| Indurate | Emotionally hardened. | After experiencing many emotional hardships I was, indurate,. |
| Equiangular | Having all angles equal in size. | The triangle was an had equiangular sides. |
| Hdryoelectric | Electricity produced by flowing water. | The dam produced, hydroelectricity, using hydraulics. |
| Circumlunar | Circling about the moon. | When the cow jumped over the moon, some might say he was, circumlunar,. |
| Navigable | Ability for boats to be able to sail on a river. | I fished in the river since my boat was, navigable,. |
| Pedestrian | Person who walks across the street on foot. | The, pedestrian, crossed the street to go to Walmart. |
| Psychometrics | Scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits. | My trainer used, psychometric, to judge my skills and attitudes towards certain things. |
| Scientist | Person having expert knowledge in science. | The, scientist, performed many labs and experiments. |
| Dissent | To differ in opinion or feeling to disagree. | Me and my brother's opinion, dissent, to which flavor of ice cream is better chocolate, or vanilla. |
| Solitude | Conditions of being alone. | When the criminal was sentenced to jail from the jury's indictment he was in, solitude, in his cell. |
| Retrospective | Looking back at past things. | When I looked ,retrospectively, I knew I had liked my childhood. |
| Abrasion | Scraping or rubbing off. | I wondered if I would have to use a chisel and use, abrasion, to get off the dirt that was stuck onto my skin. |
| Injustice | Violation of the rights towards another. | Slavery was an, injustice, especially to those who were enslaved. |
| Intermission | Break between parts of a play, opera, or concert. | My father was glad for the ,intermission, because he was not fond of plays. |
| Malady | Sickness or illness. | During the winter there is usually a lot of, malady, going around, most commonly the flu. |
| Unilateral | One-sided. | The polygon was a, unilateral, polygon. |
| Biographee | Person whose life is written about. | To research for a project about Abraham Lincoln I read a, biographee, about him. |
| Islet | A little island. | The Mythbusters stranded themselves on an, islet, to try and solve a myth. |
| Veterinarian | Person who is a doctor of animal science. | When we first got each of our dogs we took them to see a, veterinarian,. |
| Accumalitve | Tending to increase in growth. | As children get older they tend to get an accumulative in size. |
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