14. Circle the prefix, underline the base word:

subsurface transmigrate insincere misrepresent

repossess presuppose malpractice disassociate

pro-labor conform malignant microwave

self-control misuse feverish unlike

dislike presumption repository transparency

mal-position malicious confluent consolidate

justice embarrassment alteration clinician

novelty stillness flexible destructive

15. Use the prefix to form the negative word:

adjective	verb	adjective	verb
patient - _____ polite - _____ correct - _____ regular - _____ legible - _____ friendly - _____	pack - _____ lock - _____ use - _____ like - _____ agree - _____ appear - _____	reasonable - _____ employed - _____ honest - _____ visible - _____ legal - _____ literate - _____	wrap - _____ close - _____ regard - _____ understand - _____ respect - _____ do - _____

Useful Greek and Latin roots
acro	high	geo	earth
act	act or do	grad	move forward
alt	high	graph	write
ann/enn	year	gram	write
anthrop	human	grav	heavy
aqua	water	hyper	more than normal
aster/astr	star	jour	day
audi, audio	hearing	labor	work
auto	self, alone	lib	book
bene	good	loc	place
bibl	book	log	word, reason
bi, bio	life	logy	study of
cap	head	lum	light
capt	take, hold, seize	lun	moon
carn	flesh	mar	sea
cede/cess	yield, give away	meter	measure
circum	around	mit/miss	send
civ	city	mob	move
crac/crat	govern	mon	warn
cred	believe	mot	move
cycl, cyclo	circle	mut	change
dem	people	nat	born
derm	skin	nau	ship
dia	day	nom	name
dic/dict	speak, say	oper	work
dom	rule	pac	peace
duc/duct	lead	ped	foot
don	give	pend	hang
dorm	sleep	phobia	fear
dur	hard	phon	sound
dynam	power	pon/pos/posit	place, put
extra	outside	pop	people
fac/fec	do, make	port	carry
fer	bring or carry	posit	sit or stay
fin	end	rot	turn
flam	fire	scrib/script	write
frac	break	spec	look, see
fug	flee	stat	stand/put in place
metr	measure	tang	touch or feel
nom/nym	name/word/law	vers/vert	turn
phil	love	vid/vis	call
soph	wise/ wisdom	voc/vok	wish
path(y)	feeling	vol	see
pend	to hang	quart, quadr	four

16. Add a noun suffix to each of the words below:

patriot legal occupy note special type lazy pain coward author sad scholar

17. Add an adjective suffix to each of the words below:

beauty defect valor peril mystery origin structure glory architecture home destruction danger

18. Define each of the following words:

access credibility prediction deduction visor

autohypnosis monogram remission facility portable

biochemical stationary metrical sociology scribble

beneficial cyclone benevolent hypermarket extra-virgin bicentennial hypersensitive circumstantial circumvention quadruple

19. Translate the sentences. Pay attention to the words in black type:

1. This year’s annual family reunion will be held in a campground. 2. Our town is having a big bicentennial parade exactly two hundred years after the day the town was founded. 3. The bride’s softly spoken wedding vows were not audible to those at the back of the church. 4. The acoustics in the new auditorium is so good that the music can be heard clearly even in the balconies. 5. When Bob asked his parents if he could buy a new “two-wheeler”, they didn’t realize he meant a motorcycle. 6. A cyclone travels in a circular motion. 7. When children reach adulthood, parents usually don’t stop to help them. 8. A hundred years ago womanhood began rather early for our great-grandmothers. 9. The hypermarket is a combination of a department store and a supermarket, which is relatively new for our country. 10. She is absolutely hypersensitive. Soap operas make her cry bitterly. 11. These paints are nontoxic so that children won’t be poisoned if they swallow some. 12. The story about aliens did not remind nonfiction at all. 13. The children’s swing is unsafe. It is suspended from a weak tree branch. 14. The swinging pendulum of the ancient clock makes me sleepy. 15. I was so stupid when I believed the ad, saying I could quadruple my money in two months if I invested it into that project.

20. Complete each italicized word with the correct word part from the box:

ann / -ly / audi(o)- / cycl(o) / -hood / hyper- / non- / path(y) / pend / quart, quadr

1. James loves playing the violin, especially when he has a(n) (…ence) ___ listening to him.

2. It’s hard for me to be (sym…etic)___ when my sister complains, because she causes so many of her problems herself.

3. Jim was a well-adjusted adult due to the proper therapy, but we knew that his (child…) ___ years were troubled and unhappy.

4. When I lost one of my earrings, I had the other one made into a(n) (…ant) ___ to hang around my neck.

5. The children’s odd (…et) ___ consisted of a toy-drum player, a building block clapper, a piano player, and a bell ringer.

6. We were told to bring only necessary equipment on our camping trip, so I was surprised to see how much (…essential) ___ gear others brought.

7. Mrs. Baker said she and her husband had been (happi…) ___ married for nearly forty years.

8. One of the most difficult vehicles to ride is also one of the simplest: a(n) (uni…e) ___, a vehicle with only one wheel.

9. Our boss said we would be evaluated (…ually) ___ for possible promotions.

10. My grandmother has (…tension) ___, which is abnormally high blood pressure.

11. Some males act as if their (man…) ___ (de…ed) ___ on how many women they go out with, rather than on maturity and strength of character.

12. The (…ist) ___ stood there (helpless…) ___ staring at the tire he had chained to the tree. The rest of the bike had been stolen.

13. David, a (…drinker) ___, is (…critical) ___ of anyone who touches alcohol. He is adamant in his belief that taking even a single drink is the sign of a self-destructive personality.

14. My nursing class watched an (…visual) ___ show about the horrible conditions in a mental institution of the 1950s. the patients looked (…etic); clearly they were suffering.

15. For my research report, I used two magazines – one (…erly) ___, published four times a year; and an (…ual) ___ that appears only every January.