Common Prefixes and Suffixes

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Roots

astro- aud- bene- bio- chlor- cred- dict- duc- eco- fac- flec-/flex- form- fract- hydro- hyper hypo- ject- jud- junct- photo-/phos- port- rupt- scribe-/script- sect-/sec- spect- spir- st-/sta-/stat- stru- tang-/tact- trac-/tract- vid-/vis- vert-/vers- voc- vor-

Common Prefixes and Suffixes

Prefix Meaning Example

a- on or not aboard, atypical

Suffix

-able

Meaning

capable of being anti- against auto- self co-/com- with counter- against dis- antisocial automobile cohabitation, community counterproductive

not or remove dissatisfied, disarm

-ance/-ence

-ee

-ess

-ful

-ful ex- out fore- before il-/ir- not im-/in not exhaust, exit forewarned immature, insane

-hood

-ic (-ical) illogical, insane, irreparable -ier, -yer

-ing inter- between mis- wrongly pent- five post- after pre- pro-

before

in front of quad- four re- again, back intermission misinform pentagon postscript preview project quadrant retell, return

-ion

-ism

-ism

-ist

-less

-ness

-ous

-ship semi- half semicircle underweight ultra- beyond, extreme ultrasonic, ultraviolet un- not under- below undone

state of

object of action

doer of action(F)

amount that fills

characterized by

state of

connected with

one who

material

state or quality of

state or quality of

doctrine of

one who practices

a lack of; without

state of

state of

state of

-tion (-ation) state of

-ty (-ity) state of

-ward

-y

in the direction of

characterized by

Example

workable (whole word) tolerance, patience employee waitress plateful, woeful helpful, joyful parenthood, adulthood historic, musical cashier, lawyer bedding, roofing champion, ambition heroism, baptism capitalism, socialism biologist, communist homeless, priceless, useless hardness joyous hardship action, declaration loyalty, sanity northward greasy, unity

Common Latin and Greek Roots

Meaning

star to hear well, good life greenish-yellow to believe, to trust to say to lead house to do, to make to bend shape to break water beyond, more than normal under throw judge to join light to carry to break to write cut to look to breathe to stand to build to touch to drag, pull to see to turn voice, to call devour

Example

astronomer, astronaut, astrology, astrolab audible, inaudible, audience, auditory, audio, audition benefit, beneficial, benevolent, benefactor, benediction biology, biosphere, biotic chlorophyll, chloroplast, chlorine, chlorella credit, credible, credence, discredit dictate, diction, dictator, dictionary, contradict, indict conducive, deduce, deduct, educate, induce, introduce ecology, economy, ecosystem, ecotype fact, factual, factory, manufacture, benefactor reflection, deflect, flexible formation, formative, deform, formula fracture, refract, fraction hydrophobia, hydrology, hydrogen hyperactive, hypertension, hypersonic hypodermis, hypodermic, hypothermia, reject, projectile, eject, inject judgment, prejudice, adjudicate juncture, junction, conjunction phosphorescent, photography import, export, transport, portable abrupt, corrupt, disrupt, eruption, interrupt, bankrupt, rupture inscribe, transcribe, transcript, manuscript, prescription dissect, intersect, insect, midsection spectator, inspect, prospect, suspect respiration, inspire, conspirators stable, station, constant, establish, statue, arrest, constitute construct, instruct, destruct tangible, intangible, tangent, contact, tactile trace, track, tractible, tractor, detract, extract, distract video, invisible, television revert, inversion, vertical, convert vocal, advocate, vociferous voracious, omnivore, carnivore

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