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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