Roots2Words Affix of the Week: ANTE-
Looking to add a lot more words your personal lexicon or just want to better understand the English language? If you learn the common roots, prefixes, and suffixes that so many of our words are based on, you’ll have the tools to recognize familiar words or decode unfamiliar words. That’s the Roots2Words way! Your Roots2Words Affix of the Week is ANTE-: ANTE- is a prefix meaning before. (Prefixes appear at the beginning of words) **EXAMPLES** ante (noun) – gaming stake put in by players before the deal in poker antebellum (adj) – before the war, particularly the Civil War BREAKDOWN: ANTE- (before) + BELL- (war) antecedent (noun) – preceding circumstance or event; ancestors; the noun that a pronoun replaces or describes BREAKDOWN: ANTE- (before) + CEDE- (come) + -ENT (that which does) antediluvian (adj) – belonging to the age before the Biblical Flood (deluge); old-fashioned anterior (adj) –…
Roots2Words Affix of the Week: -ACIOUS
Looking to add a lot more words your personal lexicon or just want to better understand the English language? If you learn the common roots, prefixes, and suffixes that so many of our words are based on, you’ll have the tools to recognize familiar words or decode unfamiliar words. That’s the Roots2Words way! Your Roots2Words Affix of the Week is -ACIOUS: -ACIOUS is a suffix meaning inclined to or abounding in. (Suffixes appear at the end of words) **EXAMPLES** audacious (adj) – extremely bold or daring; fearless; impudent or presumptuous BREAKDOWN: AUD- (bold) + -ACIOUS (inclined to) fallacious (adj) – based on a fallacy; deceptive, misleading; logically unsound BREAKDOWN: FAL- (to deceive) + -ACIOUS (inclined to) loquacious (adj) – talking or tending to talk too much or freely BREAKDOWN: LOQU- (talk) + -ACIOUS (inclined to) pugnacious (adj) – eager to fight; combative; aggressive BREAKDOWN: PUG- (to fight with…
Roots2Words Affix of the Week: EU-
Looking to add a lot more words your personal lexicon or just want to better understand the English language? If you learn the common roots, prefixes, and suffixes that so many of our words are based on, you’ll have the tools to recognize familiar words or decode unfamiliar words. That’s the Roots2Words way! Your Roots2Words Affix of the Week is EU-: EU- is a prefix meaning good, well, or pleasant. (Prefixes appear at the beginning of words) **EXAMPLES** eugenics (noun) – the study of or belief in improvement of the human species through the control of hereditary factors BREAKDOWN: EU- (good) + GEN- (birth) + -IC (pertaining to) eulogy (noun) – a public speech or oration honoring the virtues or achievements of someone recently deceased BREAKDOWN: EU- (good) + LOG- (speech) + -Y (act or state) euphemism (noun) – the substitution of a pleasant or inoffensive term for…
Roots2Words Affix of the Week: -FY
Looking to add a lot more words your personal lexicon or just want to better understand the English language? If you learn the common roots, prefixes, and suffixes that so many of our words are based on, you’ll have the tools to recognize familiar words or decode unfamiliar words. That’s the Roots2Words way! Your Roots2Words Affix of the Week is -FY: -FY is a suffix meaning to make. (Suffixes appear at the end of words.) **EXAMPLES** codify (verb) – to collect and arrange in a systematic form or code BREAKDOWN: COD- (code of laws) + -FY (to make) mollify (verb) – to comfort, appease, or soften BREAKDOWN: MOLL- (soft) + -FY (to make) mortify (verb) – to make someone feel so ashamed or humiliated that they want to die; to subdue or deaden one’s body with self-denial BREAKDOWN: MORT- (dead) + -FY (to make) ossify (verb) – to grow rigid…
Roots2Words Affix of the Week: AF-
Looking to add a lot more words your personal lexicon or just want to better understand the English language? If you learn the common roots, prefixes, and suffixes that so many of our words are based on, you’ll have the tools to recognize familiar words or decode unfamiliar words. That’s the Roots2Words way! Your Roots2Words Affix of the Week is AF-: AF- is a prefix meaning to or towards. (Prefixes appear at the beginning of words.) **EXAMPLES** affable (adj) – approachable; easy to speak to BREAKDOWN: AF- (towards) + FAB- (speak) + -BLE (able to be) affiliate (verb) – to connect, unite, or bring into close association; to adopt BREAKDOWN: AF- (towards) + FILI- (flow) + -ATE (being) — an affiliate is a branch, subsidiary, or member of an association affix (verb) – to attach or fasten; to append BREAKDOWN: AF- (to) + FIX- (fasten) — in grammar,…