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Flashcard 1: What does the prefix "over-" mean when decoding a word?
Answer: "too much" or "too many". This prefix indicates excess or going beyond normal limits.
Flashcard 2: What does the prefix "under-" mean when decoding a word?
Answer: "too little" or "below". This prefix indicates insufficiency or a lower position.
Flashcard 3: What does the suffix "-s" or "-es" usually mean at the end of a noun?
Answer: More than one (plural). These suffixes change singular nouns to show multiple items.
Flashcard 4: What does the suffix "-est" mean in a word like "smallest"?
Answer: The most (highest degree). This suffix forms superlatives for comparison.
Flashcard 5: What does the suffix "-ly" usually do to a word like "quick" to make "quickly"?
Answer: Makes an adverb (tells how). This suffix changes adjectives into adverbs describing manner.
Flashcard 6: What does the suffix "-ful" mean in a word like "helpful"?
Answer: Full of. This suffix creates adjectives meaning "having much of" something.
Flashcard 7: What does the suffix "-less" mean in a word like "hopeless"?
Answer: Without. This suffix creates adjectives meaning "lacking" something.
Flashcard 8: Choose the base word in "replay" that helps you decode the word.
Answer: play. The root word without prefixes or suffixes attached.
Flashcard 9: What does the prefix "un-" mean when decoding a word?
Answer: "not" or "the opposite of". This prefix reverses or negates the meaning of the base word.
Flashcard 10: What does the prefix "re-" mean when decoding a word?
Answer: "again". This prefix indicates repetition or doing something once more.
Flashcard 11: Which meaning best matches the word "misread" using its prefix and base word?
Answer: Read wrongly. "Mis-" (wrong) + "read" = to read incorrectly.
Flashcard 12: What is the base word in "replay" after removing the prefix?
Answer: play. Remove the prefix "re-" to find the base word.
Flashcard 13: What does the prefix "mis-" mean in words such as "misplace"?
Answer: Wrongly; badly. This prefix indicates an error or incorrect action.
Flashcard 14: What does the prefix "pre-" mean in words such as "preheat"?
Answer: Before. This prefix indicates something happens earlier or in advance.
Flashcard 15: What does the prefix "re-" mean in words such as "redo"?
Answer: Again. This prefix indicates repetition or doing something once more.
Flashcard 16: What does the prefix "un-" mean in words such as "unhappy"?
Answer: Not; the opposite of. This prefix reverses or negates the meaning of the base word.
Flashcard 17: Choose the word that means "without hope": hopeful, hopeless, hopest.
Answer: hopeless. "-less" means "without," so hopeless means "without hope."
Flashcard 18: What is the base word in "unfair" after removing the prefix?
Answer: fair. Remove the prefix "un-" to find the base word.
Flashcard 19: Choose the word that means "not kind": unkind, rekind, prekind.
Answer: unkind. "Un-" means "not," so unkind means "not kind."
Flashcard 20: Choose the word that means "to do again": redo, predo, misdo.
Answer: redo. "Re-" means "again," so redo means "do again."
Flashcard 21: What is the base word in "played" after removing the suffix?
Answer: play. Remove the suffix "-ed" to find the base word.
Flashcard 22: What is the base word in "jumping" after removing the suffix?
Answer: jump. Remove the suffix "-ing" to find the base word.
Flashcard 23: What is the base word in "pretest" after removing the prefix?
Answer: test. Remove the prefix "pre-" to find the base word.
Flashcard 24: What does the suffix "-less" mean in words such as "hopeless"?
Answer: Without. This suffix creates adjectives meaning lacking something.
Flashcard 25: What does the suffix "-ful" mean in words such as "helpful"?
Answer: Full of. This suffix creates adjectives meaning having a quality.
Flashcard 26: What does the suffix "-est" mean in words such as "tallest"?
Answer: Most; highest degree. This suffix forms the superlative degree of adjectives.
Flashcard 27: What does the suffix "-er" mean in words such as "teacher" or "runner"?
Answer: A person who does something. This suffix creates nouns describing someone who performs an action.
Flashcard 28: What does the suffix "-ing" show in a verb (running, reading)?
Answer: Happening now; ongoing action. This suffix forms the present participle or progressive tense.
Flashcard 29: What does the suffix "-ed" usually show in a verb (jumped, played)?
Answer: Happened in the past. This suffix changes verbs to past tense form.
Flashcard 30: What does the suffix "-s" or "-es" mean when added to a noun (cats, boxes)?
Answer: More than one (plural). These suffixes change singular nouns to plural form.