click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Prep for vocab quiz
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Base words | refer to individual words in the English language. |
| Root words | go back to Latin and Greek language |
| Affix | Affixes are small word particles, usually only a few letters, added to a root word to change its meaning or grammatical |
| Prefix | Prefixes are affixes that come at the beginning of a word, before a root word. Sometimes they are added to a word to a word to change its meaning, such as legal and illegal |
| Suffix | Suffixes are affixes that come after at the end of a word, after the root word. Unlike prefixes, which mostly change a word's meaning |