Prefixes and suffixes

Question 1

What does "replay" mean?

• A. play badly
• B. play again
• C. not play
• D. play before

Question 2

What does "dishonest" mean?

• A. not honest
• B. too honest
• C. honest before
• D. honest again

Question 3

What is the root word in "unlocked"? Type it.

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Question 4

Add a prefix to make the opposite of "polite". Type the new word.

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Question 5

Type the new word. Add a prefix to "behave" to make a word that means "behave badly".

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Question 6

Which word fits? Use the clue in brackets. The oven needs to ___ before the cake goes in. (heat before)

• A. unheat
• B. reheat
• C. preheat

Question 7

What does this prefix mean? inter- (as in international, interact)

• A. inside
• B. after
• C. against
• D. between

Question 8

Which word means "not patient" (or the opposite of "patient")?

• A. dispatient
• B. ilpatient
• C. impatient
• D. unpatient

Question 9

Use the clue in brackets. Which word fits? The film was ___ action from start to finish. (without stopping)

• A. nonstop
• B. restop
• C. misstop

Question 10

Use a suffix to make one word with this meaning. Type it. able to be washed

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Question 11

What does "painless" mean?

• A. a person in pain
• B. without pain
• C. able to hurt
• D. full of pain

Question 12

Read the question. Which word is in the same word family as "care"?

• A. careful
• B. carrot
• C. card
• D. car

Question 13

Which prefix makes a real word from "spell", meaning "not" or "wrongly"?

• A. misspell
• B. unspell
• C. disspell
• D. inspell

Question 14

Which suffix do you need? Make "fold" mean "able to be folded".

• A. -less
• B. -ful
• C. -able
• D. -er

Question 15

What does this suffix mean? -ology (as in biology, geology)

• A. full of
• B. small
• C. fear of
• D. the study of

Question 16

What does "repaint" mean?

• A. paint again
• B. paint before
• C. not paint
• D. paint badly