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vocabulary :
Through prefixes we can understand the meanings of many words.
Some frequently used prefixes are given below with their meanings.
anti : against, the opposite of
auto : self, same
bio : life, living organism
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hemi : half
inter : between, among
micro : very small, minute
multi : many
non : not, without
pre : earlier, before
V1 Some definitions are given below. Substitute each of them
with a single word using the prefix given above. One example
is done for you.
Not to be republished
e.g. 1. One’s own signature autograph [ ____ graph]
2. Place of living organisms _________ [___ sphere]
3. More than one purpose __________ [___ purpose]
4. Effective against bacteria __________ [___ biotic]
5. Half of the earth’s surface __________ [____sphere]
6. True, not fiction __________ [___fiction]
7. Between nations __________ [___national]
8. To wash before __________ [____wash]
9. Very small, not visible to the naked eye ____ [____scopic]
v2 1] The suffixes ___ful, ___ous, __y, mean ‘like’ or ‘full of’
2] The suffixes___ism and ___ment, mean ‘act’ or ‘quality of’
3] The suffixes ___or and ____er, mean ‘one who’
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