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Academic Word List- vocabulary with negative prefixes

Find the words below which have negative prefixes but dont have negative meanings.

abnormal deregulation/ deregulatedisproportionate illegalilliberal illogicalimmature/ immaturity imprecise/ imprecisioninaccessible inaccurateinadaptable inadequateinappropriate incapableincoherent incompatible/ incompatibilityinconsistency/ inconsistent indemonstrable

indiscrete/ indiscretion inflexible/ inflexibilityinsecurity insignificantinstability insufficientinvalid/ invalidity irrationalirrelevant/ irrelevance misinterpret/ misinterpretationnonconformist unachievableunambiguous unapproachableunbeneficial unbiasedunclear uncommitteduncommunicative unconfinedunconstitutional unconstrained

unconstructive uncontroversialunconvincing uncooperativeuncreative unculturedundiminished undiscriminatingundynamic uneconomicalunempirical unenergeticunethical unfocusedunideological uninjureduninvolving unjustifiableunlicensed unmethodicalunmotivated unprofessionalunrefined unregulatedunreliable unsustainable

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Hint: There are eight.

Try to remember the negative prefixes of the words below:

accessible accurateachievable adaptableadequate ambiguousapproachable appropriatebeneficial biasedcapable clear coherent committedcommunicative compatible/ compatibilityconfined conformistconsistency/ consistent constitutionalconstrained constructivecontroversial convincingcooperative creativecultured demonstrablediminished discrete/ discretiondiscriminating dynamiceconomical empiricalenergetic ethicalflexible/ flexibility focusedideological injuredinterpret/ interpretation involving

justifiable legalliberal licensedlogical mature/ maturitymethodical motivatednormal precise/ precisionprofessional proportionaterational refinedregulated regulation/ regulaterelevant/ relevance reliablesecurity significantstability sufficient

sustainable valid/ validity

Try to argue that some of the words are not necessarily in the right section and/ or thatsome of the opposites do not have opposite connotations. You will get one point for eachone that you argue convincingly.

Use the list on the next page to help you if you need to.

What phrases can you use to talk about positive and negative aspects?

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