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Affixes and Root
| Question | Answer | Example |
|---|---|---|
| audio | hearing | audiology |
| spec spect | to see to look | inspect spectator |
| derm | skin | dermatology |
| pat | feel feelings | sympathy |
| soph | wisdom knolege | sophisticated |
| frag, frac, rupt | to break | fragile |
| cian | possesing a special skill | physition |
| urb | city | urban |
| graph | to write | autograph |
| sent | feel | sensetive |
| cred | to believe | incredible |
| phon | sound | telephone |
| ject | to throw | reject |
| vid | to view | visual |
| tele | far off or away | telephone |
| er eer or | a person | teacher mountaineer aviator |
| ence ance ent | the condition of | presence |
| ate ize | to turn nouns into verbs | pasturize |
| ion | turns verbs into nouns | act- action |
| ness | turnsturns adjectives | happy |
| ism | a belief | favoritism |
| ist | make an object into | machine |
| ary ery ory | connecting or refering to a person place or thing | dictionary |
| logy | a field of study or science | biology |
| an ian ant ent | refers to places or people | American Asian |
| ship | a state of something or skill | sponsorship |
| ous ious ful | full of | joyful envious |
| able ible | can be done | capable |
| in im il ir un | not | impossible |
| in | into | inject |
| re | do over | reread |
| dis | negative | disgust |
| mono uni | one | monopoly unicycle |
| bi | two | bilingual |
| mis | wrongly | misfire |
| tri | three | triangle tripod |
| quad | four | quadruplets |
| pent | five | pentagon |
| semi demi hemi | half | semicircle |
| auto | self | autobiography |
| ab | away from | abnormal |
| dura | hard lasting | durable |
| poly | many | polygon |
| pre | before | preview |
| pro | in favor of | promote |
| anti | against | antifreeze |
| ante | first | antecedent |
| philo | love of something | philosophy |
| sub | under | submarine |
| trans | carry across | transportation |
| inter | between | interrupt |
| de | opposite | defrost decompose |
| glot gloss | tounge | polyglot glossary |
| dict | to say something | dictionary |
| bio | life | biology |
| ortho | to straighten | orthodontist |
| ped | foot | pedicure |
| script | to write | manuscript |
| thermo | heat (greek) | thermos thermal |