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Learning these words will help you increase
your vocabularies and as a byproduct your
reading skills as well. Learning prefixes and
root words will specifically improve your test
taking skills and also your ability to read at
your grade level and beyond.
Listen & Learn 
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Copy down the list on the note card sheets provided. Use 1
side the card that you will cut out as the “Root word” or
“prefix side.” The other side is for you to copy the definition
of the root word and /or prefix in addition to examples.
Front Side:
Back Side :
Aqua
Water
Aquifer, aquatic, aqualine
 with
one set of cards you will play a round against 1
other player. Keep the deck out of sight and draw
one card at a time. The first player to say the
correct definition of the word wins.
 The
player with more cards at the end of the round
wins. For the second round play with the definition
side up, players must guess the root instead of the
definition.
 “aqua”
 “bio”
means life
 “geo”
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means water“ami” means love
means earth
“hemo” means blood
“vita” means life
“pre” means before “fix” is to attach
“anti-” means against,
“inter-” means between
“poly-” means many,
same
“homo-” means the
“pseudo-” means false,
“trans-” mean across
“-ology”
means study of,
“-ism” is belief in
“-cide” means killing,
“-or” and “-er” means demonstration
“-phobia” means fear of,
“-kinesis” means movement
1) Copy down the 14 text boxes
you see on a piece of paper.
2) On the next slide you need to
copy down the words provided
in the exact order.
3) Next, draw a line to the correct
definition.
4) The top three quickest and
most accurate students earn
Extra Credit.
Fix
Earth
Hemo
Life
Geo
Blood
Inter
Attach
Vita
Before
Ami
Between
Pre
Love
 Write
down 3 literary devices you got wrong
for the quiz.
o For each literary device write a new
sentence with an example of that literary
device within that sentence.
“Auto-” means self,
“Min ” means small,
“Chron-” means time
“Spec” means to see
“Port” means carry,
“Path-” to feel/suffer
“Morph” means form/ structure
“Dic” means to speak
“trans-” mean across
“Cred” means to believe
1
2
5
3
4
6
7
8
9
ACROSS
2. means to belief
5. means form or structure
6. means small
8. means self
9. means see
DOWN
1. means carry
2. means time
3. means speak
4. means across
7. means to feel/suffer
“Bell ” means war
“Grad, gress ” means to step
“pseudo” means fake
“Pro” means for or forward
“Magn” means large
“crac, crat” means rule/ruler
“man” means hand
“sens, sent -” to feel/be aware
“sub-” means under
“scrib/script” means write
“Demo” means people
“Psych” means soul or mind
“Com” means with or together
“A” means not/without
“circum” means around
“Graph” means writing/printing
“Bene” means good
“de”means down /away
“IL”means not
“Tele”means distant/far off
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2
6
9
7
3
4
5
8
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
Across:
1. means water
3. means before
4. means carry
7. means life
9. means between
12. means time
13. means to feel or be aware of 14. means belief in
16. means rule
17. means feel or suffer
Down:
1. means love
2. means attach
3. means many 5. means the study of
6. means to step 8. means self
10. means across
11. means hand
15. means structure or form
17. means feel or suffer
“Pac” means peace
“Im” means not or into
“Arch” means leader, chief, ruler
“In” means not or into
“An” means nor/without
“Mort”means death
“Sect” means to cut
“Corp”means body
“post” means after “Ist”means one who believes in
“Re” means again, back
“Arm” means weapon
“Cog” means to know
“Mal” means bad
“Cede, ceed” means to go
“Audi”means to hear
“Able, ible” means capable of
“Ious”means full of
“Ize” means to make
“Cy”means state of being