Prefix introduction

This is a pretest. You will not receive a grade for it, other than for

completion.

Instructions:

• In your interactive notebook, on the table of contents page, next to the number 5, write vocabulary #1.

• Turn to page 5 in your interactive notebook.• On page 5, number 1-10 down the side.• As you view the following slides, write down

the words/prefixes and then your best answer/guess to their meaning.

ante

anti

audio

bene

chron

circum

cide

cred

commun

bio

ante

Let’s see how well you did.

antebefore

antebefore

antebefore

antiagainst

audito hear

benegood

chrontime

circumaround

cideto kill

credto believe

communto share

bioliving

Let’s look at words that use these

prefixes and suffixes.

antebellum: before the warantecedent:preceding, prior

antidote: a medicine or other remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc

auditory: pertaining to hearing.audiophile: a person especially interested in high fidelity sound reproduction.

benefit: something that is advantageous or good benevolent: desiring to help others; charitable

chronological: arranged in order of timechronograph: a timepiece capable of measuring extremely brief intervals of time accurately, as a stopwatch able to record fractions of a second as well as elapsed time

circumnavigate:to sail or fly aroundcircumference:the outer boundary, especially of a circular area

homocide: the killing of one human being by anothersuicide: the intentional taking of one’s own life

auditory: pertaining to hearing.audiophile: a person especially interested in high fidelity sound reproduction.

auditory: pertaining to hearing.audiophile: a person especially interested in high fidelity sound reproduction.

credible: capable of being believedIncredible: so extraordinary as to seem impossible

community: a group sharing common interestscommune: to converse or talk together

biology: the science of life or living matterbiosphere: the ecosystym comprising the entire earth and the living organisms that inhabit it

Next week you will be taking a short quiz

on these parts of words.

It will be a multiple choice quiz made up

of ten questions.

You will take it in class, on the computers.

You will have 5 minutes for 10

questions. Study!