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Miss Durie's Roots/Bases/Prefixes/Suffixes
Question | Answer |
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Act | To do, drive |
Alt | High |
Ann, Enn | Year |
Aqua | Water |
Aster, Astro | Star |
Aud | To hear |
Biblio, Bibli | Book |
Bio | Life |
Cede | To go, yield |
Cent | 100 |
Chrono | Time |
Circ, Circum | Around |
Cred | To believe, trust |
Dem | People |
Dent | Tooth |
Dic, Dict | To say, speak, or assert |
Fin | End, limit |
Gen | Race, family, kind |
Geo | Earth |
Graph, gram | To write, draw, record |
Hab | To have, hold, or dwell |
Hydro | Water |
Med, Medi | Middle |
Jur, Jus, Judic | Law, right, judgment |
Leg | Law |
Loc | Place |
Logue, Logo | Idea, word, speech, reason |
Hypo | Under, below |
Meter, Metr | To measure |
Mov, Mob, Mot | To move |
Mono | One |
Morph | Form |
Noc, Nox | Night |
Micro | Small |
Phon | Sound, voice |
Photo | Light |
Pyr | Fire |
Petr | Rock |
Ped | Foot |
Peri | Around |
Port | To carry |
Sign | Mark |
Sci | To know |
Scope | To see |
Spec, spect | To see, look at, behold |
Scrib, script | To write |
Syn, sym | Together |
Techn | Art, skill |
Temp | Time |
Therm | Heat |
Dur | Hard, lasting |
Tract | To pull, draw |
Vis, Vid | To see, look |
Ab- | From, away from |
Ad- | To, motion toward, addition to |
Aero- | Air |
Amphi- | Both, around |
An- | Not |
Ante- | Before |
Anti- | Against, opposite, reverse |
Ap- | To, nearness to |
Auto- | Self |
Bene- | Good |
Co-, Con- | Together |
Contra- | Against |
De- | Opposite of, away from, undo |
Dis- | Opposite |
Ex- | Out, beyond, away from, former |
Extra- | Outside, beyond, besides |
For- | Not |
Fore- | Before |
Hyper- | More than normal, too much |
Il- | Not |
Im- | Into, not |
In- | Not, go into |
Inter- | Among, between |
Intra- | Within |
Ir- | Not |
Mal- | Wrong, bad |
Mis- | Wrong, bad, no, not |
Non- | Not, opposite of |
Ob- | Against |
Per- | Through |
Post- | After |
Pre- | Before |
Pro- | Before, for, in support of, forward |
Re- | Back, again |
Retro- | Backward |
Se- | Apart |
Self- | Of the self |
Semi- | Half, partly |
Sub- | Under, beneath |
Super- | Over |
Sur- | Over, above |
Trans- | Across, over |
Ultra- | Extremely |
Un- | Not |
-able, ible | Able to be, capable of being |
-ade | Action or process |
-age | Action or process |
-al, -ial | Of, like, relating to, suitable for |
-ance | Act, process, quality, state of being |
-ant | One who |
-ary | Of, like, relating to |
-ate | Characteristic of, to become |
-cle, -icle | Small |
-cy | Fact or state of being |
-dom | State or quality of of |
-ence | Act or state or being |
-ent | Doing, having, showing |
-er | One who, that which |
-ery | Place for, act, practice of |
-esque | Like |
-ess | Female |
-ful | Full of |
-ic | Relating to, characteristic of |
-ify | To make, to cause to be |
-ion | Act, condition, or result of |
-ish | Of or belonging to, characterized by |
-ism | Act, practice, or result of, example |
-ity | Condition, state of being |
-ive | Of, relating to, belonging to, tending to |
-ize | Make, cause to be, subject to |
-less | Without |
-let | Small |
-like | Like, characteristic of |
-logy | Study or theory of |
-ly | Every, like, characteristic of, resembling |
-ment | Action or process, state or quality of, product or thing |
-ness | State or quality of being |
-or | One who |
-ous | Having, full of, characterized by |
-ship | State or quality of being |
-some | Like, tending to be |
-tude | State or quality of being |
-y | Characterized by |
Bi- | Two |
Cardio | Heart |
Chromo | Color |
Dec- | Ten |
Derma | Skin |
Di-/Dia- | Two |
Duo- | Two |
Dyna | Power |
Dys- | Abnormal, bad |
Equi- | Equal |
Helic | Spiral, Circular |
Hemi- | Half, partly |
Hept- | Seven |
Hex- | Six |
Lat- | Side |
Macro- | Large |
Manu | Hand |
Milli- | Thousand |
Multi- | Many |
Neo- | New |
Mort | Death |
Nov- | Nine |
-onomy | Science of |
Oct | Eight |
Pent- | Five |
Pan- | All |
Phobia | Fear of |
Omni- | All |
Poly- | Many |
Psycho | Mind |
Quad- | Four |
Quint- | Five |
Sept- | Seven |
Terra | Earth |
Tetra- | Five |
Tri- | Three |
Uni- | One |
Volve | Roll |