Prefixes and suffixes

Question 1

What does "reheat" mean?

• A. not heat
• B. heat too much
• C. heat wrongly
• D. heat again

Question 2

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

• A. misstop
• B. restop
• C. nonstop

Question 3

What does "retell" mean?

• A. tell again
• B. not tell
• C. tell before
• D. tell quietly

Question 4

What does "breakable" mean?

• A. able to be broken
• B. full of breaks
• C. a person who breaks things
• D. without breaking

Question 5

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

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

Question 6

What does this prefix mean? auto- (as in autograph, autopilot)

• A. water
• B. self
• C. far away
• D. sound

Question 7

Which suffix do you need? Make "enjoy" mean "able to be enjoyed".

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

Question 8

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

• A. illogical
• B. inlogical
• C. unlogical
• D. dislogical

Question 9

Type the new word. Add a prefix to "spell" to make a word that means "spell wrongly".

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Question 10

What does this suffix mean? -ish (as in reddish, childish)

• A. the opposite of
• B. without
• C. rather, or like
• D. very

Question 11

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

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Question 12

Which word fits? Use the clue in brackets. The game froze, so we had to ___ it. (start again)

• A. restart
• B. prestart
• C. unstart

Question 13

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

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Question 14

Use a suffix to make one word with this meaning. Type it. the quality of being kind

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Question 15

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

• A. disloyal
• B. inloyal
• C. irloyal
• D. imloyal

Question 16

What does "oversleep" mean?

• A. not sleep
• B. sleep too long
• C. sleep again
• D. sleep before