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Vocabulary Quarter 1
What is a root?
What is a root?
What is a root?
RootsPrefixes, bases, and suffixes
are all roots.
When joined together these roots create new words!
What is a prefix?A root placed before the base.Prefixes come at the beginning.
UnicycleBicycleTricycle
MotorcycleRecycle
What is a suffix?A root placed after the base.
It comes at the end.
Hard baseHarderHardest
Color base Colorful Colorless
What is a base?The base is the word that describes the main idea.
UnicycleBicycleTricycle
MotorcycleRecycleColorful ColorlessHarderHardest
Directional prefix in- and im-Directional in- and im- = in, on, intoIt tells us the direction of something, such as
the heart being inside the chest.
Inhale = to breathe inInclude = to place in a class, category, etc.
Impress = make a mark or design on an objectImprison = to put in prison or jail
Inspect = to look into something carefully
Negative Prefix in- and im-Negative in- and im- = not
Incomplete = not completeImpossible = not possibleImmature = not matureIncorrect = not correct
Directional or Negative in-?Inside D or NInspect D or NIndirect D or NInactive D or NInput D or NInhale D or NInject D or N
Incomplete D or NInsert D or N
Invisible D or N
IncludeInspectInhabitInventInside
ImplodeImmerseImpressimport
in- im-
clude spect mersehabit vent plode press
port side
Prefixes con-, com-, and col-
ContractConnect
Conference
What do you think the prefix con means? Turn and talk!
The prefixes con-, com-, and col- mean “with” or “together”
Contract = a written or verbal agreement that people make together
Connect = to bring together or into contact
Conference = a formal meeting for discussion with two or more people
Compete baseball cards
Community a car accident
Collision The Olympics
Collection people in the same school
Do you see how “with” and “together” fit with each word’s meaning?
College
Prefix Base means
Word means
col Leg = read
Col + read =
A place to read or learn
together
Collide
Prefix Base means
Word means
col Lid = slide
Col + slide =
To slide together
Collect
Prefix Base means
Word means
col Lect = gather
Col + gather =
To gather objects
together
Compact
Prefix
Base means
Word means
com pact = together
Com + together =
Things together in a small or tiny place
Compress
Prefix
Base means
Word means
com press = press
Com + press =
To press together
Composition
Prefix
Base means
Word means
com posit = put
Com + put =
The way something
is put together
Combine
Prefix
Base means
Word means
com bin = pair
Com + pair =
Put things together
Compete
Prefix
Base means
Word means
com pet = seek
Com + seek =
To play with others in a game or sport
**Seek = to try to find something
Complete
Prefix
Base means
Word means
com plet = fill
Com + fill =
To fill up with
something
Collateral
Prefix
Base means
Word means
col later = side
Col + side =
An object that you pledge
with to show your word when you
borrow money
con-
com-
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