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Miss Durie's Roots/Bases/Prefixes/Suffixes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |