Literacy note: word savvy student
Stuck on a word?
You can use morphology (the study of how the words are formed) and etymology
(the study of the history of words) to help you remember the meaning and the
spelling of the words.
Take an example ‘misnomer’:
The prefix ‘mis’ means ‘wrong’ and ‘nomer ‘ means ‘to name’, from
Latin nominare "nominate" , which altogether means: a name that is not correct or
does not suit what it refers to
You can use https://www.etymonline.com/ to help you with this.
Below, you can also find a list of common prefixes: