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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| base words | refer to individual words in the English language |
| root word | go back to Latin and Greek languages |
| affix | affixes are small word particles, usually only a few letters, added to a root word to change its meaning or grammatical properties |
| prefixes | prefixes are affixes that come at the beginning of a word, before a root word. Sometimes the are added to a change its meaning such as legal and illegal |
| suffix | suffixes are affixes that come at the end of a word, after the root word. Unlike prefixes,which mostly a changes a words meaning |
| Courage | A way of showing strength |
| Genre | A topic of a group of something |
| delusion | Being crazy in the head by seeing something or somebody thats not there |
| Fluent | Very good at speaking or doing something |